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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
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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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Roots of Unity
Goldbach Variations
Harald Helfgott, who earlier this week posted a proof of the ternary Goldbach conjecture. Image: Harald Helfgott. On Monday, Harald Helfgott of the École Normale Supériure in Paris posted a proof of one of the oldest open problems in number theory to the preprint repository arxiv...
Overthinking It
An Open Letter to Animal Planet: Learn The Difference Between Real and Fake Monsters
Dear Animal Planet: All monsters are not created equal. We make monsters out of the minuscule, and even monsters out of nothing. You do both.
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The Bias Within The Bias
Recall this pivotal scene from the 1997 movie, Men in Black . James Edwards (Will Smith, or Agent J) arrives at the headquarters of MiB - a secret agency that protects Earth from extraterrestrial threats - to compete with "the best of the best" for a position...
Dog Spies
The data is in: Adopt this dog
Erica Feuerbacher smiles when she talks, and why shouldn’t she? As a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida with the Canine Cognition and Behavior Lab, she spends a lot of time with dogs (or at least dogs in the form of data)...
Video of the Week
Space Oddity
Video of the Week #92, May 15th, 2013: From: Top 10 Commander Chris Hadfield Videos from the ISS! by Joanne Manaster at PsiVid . Source: Chris Hadfield on YouTube Astronaut Chris Hadfield's inspirational revision of David Bowie's Space Oddity, filmed aboard the ISS before his return as commander of ISS mission 35, has reached over 10 million views in less than 72 hours!...
The Artful Amoeba
Thank You, Domain Archaea ...
The Midway Geyser Basin at Yellowstone National Park, teeming with colorful archaea and bacteria. Creative Commons Wing-Chi Poon. Click image for license and source.
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Tools Are in Our Nature
Tools have changed our genes for millions of years. Paleo-people were not possible without them. Artificial aids preceded and enabled our bigger brains.
Culturing Science
I am one of the winners of a ScienceSeeker award!
The winners and finalists of the inaugural ScienceSeeker awards were announced yesterday, and I'm honored to announced that two of my posts were selected!
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What If There Is No Happy Ending? Science Communication as a Path to Change
On 30 May COMPASS published a commentary in PLOS Biology on the journey from science outreach to meaningful engagement. This post is part of a series of reactions, reflections, and personal experiences from scientists involved in such work...
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