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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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Caught in the Act of Decay
Taxidermy is just a temporary stop on the continuum from dead to dirt.
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Rediscovering the Forgotten Benefits of Drawing
A century ago, drawing was taught as an essential skill for scientists, valued for communicating findings, but also for enhancing observations. One biology professor laments this loss and aims to incorporate drawing back into her introductory biology courses...
Anecdotes from the Archive
Aircraft Design Ahead of its Time, 1915
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: September 4, 1915 The cover of this issue from 100 years ago is slightly cringeworthy (technically unfeasible, overly dramatic) but was in fact based on ongoing aviation research in 1915...
Food Matters
Great PR, Bad Science: Soda Industry gives Money to U.S. Mayors to Fight Obesity
After the US Conference of Mayors began paying attention to sugary drinks, the American Beverage Association stepped in with some grant money. The Conference no longer pays much attention to sugary drinks. ...
Tetrapod Zoology
Your Awesome Neighbourhood Herring Gull (And Its Many Cousins)
I think gulls are great, and I’m especially fond of the so-called white-headed gulls: the group of species that includes the familiar Herring gull Larus argentatus , the black-backed gulls, and a list of similar species that occur worldwide. ...
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A Silent Supersonic Jet?
Commercial travel on supersonic jets never took off because of the sonic boom these aircraft make as they rip through the atmosphere. But NASA's success visualizing the shock waves could lead to advances in jet design that make these ultra-fast aircraft quieter and ultimately commercially viable...
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The Glowing Promise of AR is Realized in the InvisibleEar
The glowing promise of AR, or augmented reality, promises us vast potential when it's paraded in pop culture. AR in fiction is used for important stuff and it looks cool while doing it. The InvisibleEar, created by biomedical communicator Andréa Zariwny, hits that mark of being both cool and useful. ...
Extinction Countdown
Asian Vultures Get Good News Ahead of International Vulture Day
Millions of vultures have died over the past 20 years, victims of a painkiller drug gone wrong
Life, Unbounded
Archimedes, 3 Trillion Trees and Life in the Universe
A new estimate of Earth's total tree population shows previous estimates were seven times too low, and there are implications for efforts to understand the nature of life here and elsewhere in the universe...
Running Ponies
This Fuzzy, Golden nautilus hasn't been seen in over 30 years
And it's only ever been seen three times ever.
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