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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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The Pacific Giant Salamanders
They have robust skulls, big teeth, they reach a reasonable size and they're restricted (today) to northwestern North America. They're the Pacific giant salamanders...
Food Matters
Gene Sharing in Cheese Microbes, Part 1
I recently submitted my first paper from the Dutton lab, investigating how microbes share their genes. This is the first in a multipart series explaining the science and story of the paper...
The Artful Amoeba
How the Parachute Flower Commits Fraud [Video]
A flower that smells like fake dying bee scams thieving flies into pollinating it for free
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The Scoop on Termite Poop [Video]
It carries valuable clues about how to deal with these horrible home-wreckers
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Fish out of Water Are Actually Pretty Common [Video]
Terrestrial behavior has evolved in at least 33 families of living fish
The Urban Scientist
Weekend to Do: Apply for Society of Wetland Scientists Mentoring Program Travel Fellowship
Application is open for undergraduate minority students to apply for travel award to attend the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists
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Autophagy, Illustrated
A graphic from the Scientific American archive shows how cells clean house—the basics behind this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Urban Scientist
Look for us in the #DIYSciZone at GeekGirlCon 2016
DIYSciZone has an avatar to invite everyone to Science at Geek Girl Con 2016
Tetrapod Zoology
Rilla Martin's Ozenkadnook Tiger Photo, Revisited
Can we ever really explain a weird 'monster' photo, taken in Australia in 1964? Well, we can try...
The Artful Amoeba
Cliff-Dwelling Bees Carve Their Nests Out of Solid Rock
Sandstone-mining bees even tunnel into abandoned pueblos
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