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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 Urban Scientist
#DispatchesDNLee: Giant African Land Snails
I see these magnificent shells littered on the ground - in the woods, on lawns, everywhere. It's the shell of the Giant African Land Snail. In Tanzania, they are native - living in terrestrial habitats or on land...
Overthinking It
Treebeard Joins the NRA
[Treebeard addresses the other Ents assembled in the forest]: "We come from that line of Ents who broke from Sauron to live their own lives as free trees...
Expeditions
Bush-crow diaries: Settling in with the Borana
As time goes on and as I had expected might be the case, the Bush-crows continue to surprise and perplex me both in their character and peculiarity. This is hardly surprising, however, considering the historic and still very current confusions surrounding the species...
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Is It Quantum Computing or Not?
This week I had a fascinating discussion on BBC Radio 4 with Dr Geordie Rose, the CTO of DWave, triggered by the news that NASA and Google are investing in DWave’s “quantum computer”.
MIND Guest Blog
What Rational Really Means
The word rational is widely misused. Scientists often apply it unnaturally, in ways that conflict with our biology. Nobel laureates Daniel Kahneman and Gary Becker, and their respective schools of thought, are on opposite sides of this breach with our nature...
The Countdown
Why Barns Are Red, and More - The Countdown, Episode 22
Links for the top 5 stories: Why Barns Are Red Light Pollution Gets Crowded An X-Classy 'Af-flare' Moon and Earth Share Common Water Source Ancient Underground Oasis Space Oddity...
The SA Incubator
Bora's Picks (May 17th, 2013)
Protecting South America’s Crown of Biodiversity by Anne-Marie Hodge: Visiting a rainforest can be an exercise in challenged expectations.
Symbiartic
Is Homosexuality Natural? Yes. So is male lactation.
As Gwenn Seemel points out in her richly illustrated book, Crime Against Nature , the non-human animal kingdom is chock-full of examples that challenge many of our deeply held beliefs about what is "natural" behavior in everything from sexual preference to lifestyle choices to gender roles and even gender identity...
The Network Central
#SciAmBlogs Thursday - Mathematical Organisms, DNA Sequences, Frontal Cortex, green spaces, and more.
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Overthinking It
Death By Lens Flare: Drink Into Darkness
The latest installment of Star Trek warps into theaters this weekend, compressing decades of canon into an action-oriented thrill ride. Regardless of whether or not you like what J.J.
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