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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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If Anime Can Save Science Outreach, It Will Look Like This
Guilty, by Yummei a.k.a. Wenquing Yan is simply a stunning and extraordinary work of art in an attempt to raise ecological awareness about pollution in the oceans.
Culturing Science
So What’s An Adorable Kitten Got to Do With an Unstable Bluff and Mount St. Helens?
Fiddler crabs are strange little beasties. Males have what amounts to one giant claw, which can be as long as his body is wide, and one tiny T.
The SA Incubator
Khalil’s Picks (6 September 2013)
This week on Picks: why do we sleep (an eternal question, isn’t it?), chaos theory got personal, you are what you eat, dinosaurs (of course!) and more.
The Scicurious Brain
Friday Weird Science! The Spontaneous Dolphin
The spontaneously…ejaculating dolphin. Because yes. They saw one. In the act of spontaneity, as it were. And if you’d like to see it, well, head over to Neurotic Physiology!
History of Geology
Geologizing Asses
“Humanity’s genius is to have always had a sense of its weakness. The physical energy and strength, with which nature insufficiently endowed humans, is found in animals that help them to discover new territories.” “Home” (2009) A post dedicated to the forgotten heroes of early geology - asses !...
Roots of Unity
The Top n Math Videos Involving Food
It’s food week here on the Scientific American blog network. Food is a really important part of our health, and there’s a lot to learn about the science of food: taste, health, agriculture, how we eat...
Plugged In
Photo Credit: Big coal –> big biomass at the U.K.’s Drax Power Station
Situated on the River Ouse, the Drax Power Station provides about 7% of the United Kingdom’s electricity supply. With its 4 GW capacity, Drax is the second largest coal-fired power plant in Europe and the U.K.’s number one emitter of carbon dioxide. This spring, facility directors announced that half of the plant’s capacity would be converted to [...]..
The Network Central
#SciAmBlogs Thursday – food in space, food in schools, food labels, artificial sweeteners, Fork & Knife Politics, donkeys, and more.
- Julianne Wyrick – Astronaut nutrition: staying healthy for a year in space - Patrick Mustain – It Is Not True That Kids Won’t Eat Healthy Food: Why The New USDA School Food Guidelines Are Very Necessary - Cami Ryan – Labels and Other “Krafty” Stuff - Caitlin Kirkwood – Tricking taste [...]..
Doing Good Science
Questions for the non-scientists in the audience.
Today in my “Ethics in Science” class, we took up a question that reliably gets my students (a mix of science majors and non-science major) going: Do scientists have special obligations to society that non-scientists don’t have?...
Tetrapod Zoology
Fantastic asses
Come on, this is Tetrapod Zoology: you knew those asses would be of the equid kind, right? I don’t think there’s been much on Tet Zoo about equids yet, nor about perissodactyls at all (a crime, given my strong interest in fossil rhinos)...
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