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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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Talking back
Spring (And Scientific Fraud) Is Busting Out All Over
I went to a panel discussion at the New York Academy of Sciences on the evening of April 30th that addressed the topic of various forms of scientific malfeasance, ranging from plagiarism to outright manipulation of data...
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Research in the Digital Age: It s More Than Finding Information...
The Role of Research in the Digital Age We all know that the Internet has led to an explosion of available information. When students search for information about a topic, they are met with a plethora of articles, from both credible and non-credible resources...
Rosetta Stones
The Woman Who Crossed the Cascades and Inspired Batman
I’m rather a bit in love with a dead woman. I met her in a moment of desperation, when I was running low on Dame Agatha Christie and had finished all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stuff, and still had a yearning for turn-of-the-last-century detective literature...
The Network Central
#SciAmBlogs Wednesday - atomic claymation, learning rules, osmosis confusion, first dinomania, dog lists, ribosomes, learning disorders and more.
As usually on Wednesdays, we have the new Video of the Week. And, as it is the first of the month, we have the new Best Of Blogs video: - Jag Bhalla - Our Ruly Nature - Eric M.
The Curious Wavefunction
How to repel kids from science: By shackling curiosity in cuffs
In his delightful memoir "Uncle Tungsten", the eminent neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks recounts the swashbuckling chemical adventures of his teenage years, sparked when a sympathetic uncle got him hooked on to the wonders of chemistry...
The Urban Scientist
Florida teen charged with felony for trying science
News of Kiera Wilmot’s arrest has seriously unnerved me. She is the Florida high school student who was experimenting with common household chemicals in science class that resulted in a minor explosion...
Video of the Week
A Boy And His Atom
Video of the Week #90, May 1st, 2013: From: World's Smallest Stop Motion Movie Made with Atoms! by Joanne Manaster at PsiVid and IBM Movie Does Claymation-in Atomic Scale by Larry Greenemeier at Observations ...
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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.
Cross-Check
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...
History of Geology
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...
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