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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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California Bill Mandating Half of Electricity Come From Renewables by 2030 Headed to Governor's Desk
A bill mandating half of California's electricity come from renewable sources by the year 2030 is headed to Governor Jerry Brown's desk. Can California source half of its electricity from renewable energy without threatening reliability or increasing costs?...
The Artful Amoeba
Aquarium Corals of Anchorage Poison 10 1/2 Humans, 2 Dogs and 1 Cat
There are few places that seem less likely for a zoanthid coral attack than Anchorage, Alaska. And yet the corals managed to poison around a dozen people in Anchorage over the last few years...
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Ig Nobel Prizes Mark a Quarter Century of Irreverent Science Humor
From levitating a live frog with magnets to a study of soggy cereal, awards foster enlightenment through laughter
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A Circle Unbroken
Honing your artistic skills can be a huge challenge once you've set your sights on realism. For wildlife painters, they need to be masters of it all - they can't spend 20 years mastering the human form when the world is filled with mountain lions, birch trees, stag beetles and granite...
Tetrapod Zoology
Late News from the 2015 Pterosaur Meeting
A few short weeks ago the.... umm... fifth (I think) international pterosaur meeting was held. It was hosted by my alma mater the University of Portsmouth, was run by Dave Martill, Richard Hing and colleagues, and was attended by a great crowd of international pterosaur workers...
Observations
Cassini Confirms a Global Ocean on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
Ever since 2005, when NASA’s Cassini orbiter found plumes of water vapor spilling out of cracks in the south pole of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, researchers have sought to learn more about the moon’s mysterious interior as a possible abode for extraterrestrial life...
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Giant Panda Conservation Also Helps Other Unique Species in China
New research proves it: The giant panda serves as an “umbrella” that helps protect dozens of other species
Life, Unbounded
Philae's Real-Time Descent and Enceladus's Global Ocean [Video]
This week brings a video reconstructed from images of the Philae lander's approach to a comet, and a major new analysis of data from the Cassini mission that bolsters the case for a global, not just local, ocean beneath the icy crust of Enceladus...
Rosetta Stones
Magnificent Cascades Volcanoes Impress, Sometimes Worry, Geobloggers
At the risk of this blog becoming all volcanoes, all the time, I bring you... more volcanoes! Two of my favorite geobloggers wrote mustn't-miss posts on some of our Cascades volcanoes. ..
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