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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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Our Ruly Nature
It is in our nature to need rules. By enabling better social productivity rules beats no rules. We can clarify our biological rule dependence by analogy with language and tools.
World's Smallest Stop Motion Movie Made with Atoms!
A darling stop motion video was released yesterday and is already a big hit. IBM took the challenge of moving 5,000 atoms around in order to create a short stop motion video, capturing the images using a scanning tunneling microscope...
Rethinking Learning Disorders
For most people, learning to read, write, add, or subtract seems straightforward and elementary. But as both a professor of special education and a scientist who studies learning in children with neurodevelopmental issues, I know that, acquiring these essential academic skills is indeed a complicated and effortful endeavor for some and that the problems they and their families experience are often just as complicated...
Author of The Physics of Wall Street Ponders Strings, Black Swans and a Final Theory of Finance
Can social science ever become as rigorous, as "hard," as, say, nuclear physics? I explored this question in a recent post, which I wrote in part as a response to The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable , by James Owen Weatherall...
May 1, 1851: The First Dinomania (and Dinosaur Nightmares)
The first day of the " Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations " was a great success - half a million people visited the official opening of the first World's Fair at Crystal Palace, a 20 acres large greenhouse located in Hyde Park of central London...
Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists
The following excerpt from Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists (TED Books, 2013) by Ainissa Ramirez—a science evangelist, material scientist and one of Scientific American’s Google Science Fair judges—has been reproduced with permission from TED Books...
Just 35 Devils Hole Pupfish Remain Does Extinction Loom?
One of the world's rarest fish species just got a lot rarer. The latest twice-annual count of tiny Devils Hole pupfish ( Cyprinodon diabolis ) at their sole habitat in Nevada has revealed just 35 of the critically endangered fish remain, down from 75 this past fall...
Osmosis Confusion: 60 Years and Counting
The phenomenon of osmosis is familiar to most readers from their junior high school science class. A dialysis bag containing sugar is placed in beaker containing pure water.
Best of April at A Blog Around The Clock
What happened? I did not post anything on A Blog Around The Clock in April!!! Yikes! I promise there will be something next month! But I did post some interesting stuff elsewhere - take a look: How to break into science writing using your blog and social media (#sci4hels) Morning at Triton...
Scicurious Guest Writer! Ribosomes: Prepare to be translated
Please welcome this month's Scicurious Guest Writer, Abid Javed! Not only did he write his post, he also drew some of his own art! Machines can be large and complex.
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