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Andrew Grant • January 23, 2008
I was just noshing on a bit of health food – a dark chocolate bar – when I read that my sweet snack may not be as good for me […]
Rachel Mahan • January 22, 2008
As the doldrums of January and February set in, this journalist will have fond memories of reporting challenges during the holidays.
Victoria Stern • January 21, 2008
- Asks Amanda from Philadelphia
Monica Heger • January 18, 2008
I spent the first three days of the New Year camping in Joshua Tree National Park in southern California. It was my first time and I expected to be out […]
Christopher Intagliata • January 17, 2008
Darwin famously wrote in the Origin of Species “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications, […]
Stuart Fox • January 15, 2008
Blinded by the red carpet and dresses no one could hope to afford and even fewer could hope to fit into, most people forget that the Oscars are run by […]
Christopher Intagliata • January 14, 2008
No, it’s not a medieval legend or a chess game – it’s a bee colony in South Africa. A recent study on the Cape Bee subspecies (Apis mellifera capensis) shows […]
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 […]