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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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Israel and Palestine Share a Rapidly Disappearing Gazelle
The population of this newly identified species has plummeted 70 percent in 15 years
Observations
Are Zombie Bees Infiltrating Your Neighborhood?
Update Sept. 11, 2015: ZomBee Watch, a citizen science project, reported on September 1, 2015 that one of its participants, Joseph Naughton, discovered and captured a honey bee parasitized by the zombie fly Apocephalus borealis on his porch in New York...
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Female and Male Hummingbirds Aren't so Different When It Comes to Finding Food
Article written by Maria Tello-Ramos, edited by Felicity Muth. Like it or not, male and females differ from each other in a number of ways.
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Wonderful Things: Planthopper Nymph Body Art
These little planthopper nymphs appear to be the offspring of an ent and a tribble, or perhaps shaggy sheep having bad hair days. Sheep that leap.
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The Teacher and the Scientist: A Match Made on Facebook
How Lee Berger and a middle-school biology teacher brought the Homo nalendi discovery to students around the world
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Are Humans Apex Predators or Genome Conservers?
Editors note: This is part of a series of interviews produced in cooperation with the World Economic Forum with members of its program on Young Scientists, who will be appearing at the Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions...
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Where Is Outcry Over Children Killed by U.S.-Led Forces?
There can be no justification for the killing of children by U.S.-led forces in Syria, Iraq and other war zones since 9/11.
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Creative People Are...
Mindful daydreamers, imaginatively gritty, passionately introverted, openly sensitive, playfully serious, logically intuitive and more.
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From Waste to Wealth: A Q&A with Agricultural Engineer Noble Banadda
Editors note: This is part of a series of interviews produced in cooperation with the World Economic Forum with members of its program on Young Scientists, who will be appearing at the Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China from September 9-to-11. The Q&A below features Noble Banadda, Professor of Bio-systems Engineering at Makrere University in Uganda...
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The Robot Will See You Now
Editor's note: When we think of empathy, we don’t usually think of machines. But computer scientist Louis-Philippe Morency and others are getting closer to building machines that can interpret not just the words people say, but also the emotion that informs their meaning...
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