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How do they make the first down line appear on the football field during a game?
Katherine Tweed • January 14, 2008
- Asks Michelle in Brooklyn, NY
Stuart Fox • January 10, 2008
Over the last couple of weeks, a number of events have dovetailed to perfectly highlight the ways in which science can be both beneficial and detrimental to mankind. While shopping […]
Eric R. Olson • January 9, 2008
When we think of environmentalism we tend to think of the preservation of pristine tracts of land far removed from civilization or of “green living” where we try to minimize […]
Monica Heger • January 7, 2008
Fluorescent light bulbs could change the world. So why aren’t they? According to The Economist changing our light bulbs is the most cost effective way to reduce greenhouse emissions, yet […]
Susannah F. Locke • January 2, 2008
Science popularizer extraordinaire Ira Flatow (the host of NPR’s Science Friday) discussed awesome and controversial things science while promoting his new book on the Leonard Lopate show on WNYC December […]
Why does my normal body temperature always seem to be lower than 98.6 degrees? By how much do normal human body temperatures vary?
Jessie Jiang • January 2, 2008
- Asks Lev from Detroit, MI
Molika Ashford • December 29, 2007
Michael Goodchild, a geographer and professor at UC Santa Barbara, just published a kind of a survey (pdf file) of citizen-based geography. Volunteered Geographical Information or VGI, Goodchild writes, is […]
Natalie Peretsman • December 27, 2007
Scientists have presented a new way of viewing the world based on the assumption that humans are here to stay. The central piece of their “anthropogenic” map is the human […]
Eric R. Olson • December 21, 2007
It would surprise most people to learn that an exploding cell phone could pack enough of a wallop to kill them. A severe burn—maybe, but it’s hard to imagine an […]
Jessie Jiang • December 19, 2007
The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 is perhaps one of the most frequently broken laws in the United States (See Statistics). A recent study shows four major reasons […]
Eric R. Olson • December 17, 2007
The cell–the most fundamental unit of life–could one day be as easily programmable as a computer, according to Mark Weiss, professor of electrical engineering and molecular biology at Princeton University. […]
Natalie Peretsman • December 17, 2007
- asks Injy from New York
Monica Heger • December 16, 2007
Fertilizing the ocean may not slow down global warming. The controversial process of dumping urea or iron into the ocean to induce an algae bloom in order to remove CO2 […]
Susannah F. Locke • December 15, 2007
At Thanksgiving, a family friend used to warn us to never eat sweet potato skins. This November, when I found myself in the yearly ritual of warning friends of the […]
Stuart Fox • December 13, 2007
(meets Abbott and Costello and the Wolfman)