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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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Food Matters
Science for Sale: Big Food's Influence on Top Nutrition Research Org
A new report highlights conflicts of interest between food companies and the American Society for Nutrition.
Plugged In
5 Student Teams Make Their Way to D.C. for the National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition
Five student teams will compete in Washington, D.C., next week in the fourth annual national competition in the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition (NCEBPC) series...
Tetrapod Zoology
The Climbing, Flying Babies of Deinonychus
Regular readers (as well as those who keep up to speed on Mesozoic dinosaur literature) will be familiar with the assorted to-ings and fro-ings that have concerned the debate over tree-climbing in non-bird theropods...
Illusion Chasers
The Science Ball Where Everybody Wore the Same Dress
Our new column article (with co-author Bevil Conway, of Wellesley College & MIT)—on the topic of The Dress—came out on newsstands in Scientific American: Mind this week...
Dog Spies
Can Dog Bite Prevention Actually Prevent Dog Bites?
Could dog bite prevention be as simple as adopting a new mindset?
The Urban Scientist
You Should Know: Segenet Kelemu, Plant Pathologist
The second edition of the You Should Know #AfricanSTEM series that highlights innovators from the continent of Africa.
Illusion Chasers
2015 Illusion Champions Announced--The People Have Spoken!!
Congratulations to the winners of the 11th annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest, hosted by the Neural Correlate Society! See them here, NOW!
Cocktail Party Physics
Physics Week in Review: June 13, 2015
The physics of butterfly flight, the universe as a fruitcake, and all the things we still don't understand about water are among this week's physics highlights.
Anecdotes from the Archive
Defense against Poison Gas, 1915
Reported in Scientific American , This Week in World War I: June 12, 1915 Germany (taking a cue from France) first used poison gas on a large scale against Allied troops manning trenches near Ypres, Belgium, on April 22, 1915...
Extinction Countdown
Isn't It Time We Recognize African Elephants as 2 Separate Species?
Fourteen years after genetic tests showed African bush and savanna elephants to be separate species, most organizations still treat them as one. That, some fear, hurts efforts to conserve them...
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