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Invisible Children's video, Kony 2012 recently went viral with over 100 million views, earning both praise and criticism from Ugandans. A vast amount of complexity surrounds the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), and it has been suggested to use the attention as a platform to raise awareness about another issue in the region, Nodding disease...
Six-year-old Brianna Toy sat anxiously on the black barstool. Hugging two pink dumbbells close to herself, Briana stretched out her legs in front of her, as the man with an accent and black, wide-brimmed leather hat better suited for the outback made ready to spin her around.“Watch out for flying feet, folks,” the man announced, giving Brianna a nice push.Brianna’s mom Angela Toy stood by, watching with a small group of people while hundreds of others sauntered past or meandered into the surrounding tents during on the sunny, spring afternoon in Tucson, Ariz.Toy, a Tucsonan, brought her daughter by to participate in this year’s Science City, a new offering at the annual Tucson Festival of Books...
I woke up, bleary-eyed, to news that would change my week: A corpse plant was about to bloom at Cornell University. In other words, the most amazing thing I could imagine was unfolding, literally, down the street from my house.The corpse plant has the largest unbranched blossom in the world...
Catalytic Clothing is a ‘trendy’ solution to air quality and a daring environmental-fashion initiative started by former fashion designer Helen Storey and University of Sheffield Professor Anthony Ryan...
The struggle between conscience and refusal, or individual rights vs. that of the community good, goes far back, and is not limited to reproductive choices.
Editor's Note (8/1/12): In July 2012 Jonah Lehrer admitted that he fabricated quotes in his book, Imagine: How Creativity Works, the subject of this blog post.
I'll admit it: I don't read a lot of scholarly, scientific journal articles. I keep up with interesting science news via blogs, news articles and Twitter headlines.
For my book Brain Trust, I interviewed Keith Devlin, NPR’s “Math Guy,” a World Economic Forum fellow, and math professor at Stanford. And being a mathematician, Devlin thinks about things differently than the world at large...
Quito, Ecuador— The most biologically diverse habitat in the western hemisphere, the Yasuní rainforest in Ecuador, is under threat. The diversity of species in the Yasuní Park is unmatched by any other park in the world...
It’s not easy to make a film that’s fun, appealing, and....well...educational. Starting with early Horizon series and the NOVA in the 60’s and 70’s, science has borrowed from the cinematic arts to help us all appreciate the beauty of nature and thrill of scientific discovery...
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