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What was he thinking?The next time your teenager behaves inexplicably, remember: his brain is like a car without brakes. The more primitive parts of the brain are well developed, acting like a powerful accelerator encouraging teens to take risks, act on impulse and seek novel experiences...
A few months ago I helped a friend of mine, Rose Eveleth, think of weirdly named things in physics . She could only include five, but there were a few more I thought were worth highlighting...
If your partner has ever given you anything like this......or this......you might be wondering things like: how am I supposed to react to this? Or, should I re-evaluate this relationship?Researchers have also asked questions regarding reactions and relationships when examining the connection between foods and sexual desire.Historically, sex, appetites and the intersection of sexual appetites have spanned the globe for centuries...
How does a Canadian-American professor of uranium mineralogy living in the unassuming American Midwest respond to the one-year anniversary of Fukushima?
In magazine reporting (and maybe science blogging), they say three events suffice to indicate a trend. So let me announce a new trend: popular entertainers are sticking up for science.
I didn’t give much thought to shipping until I started doing my PhD on whales and dolphins. Food magically appeared onto store shelves out of thin air, where I bought it.
Few places on Earth are so full of geological mayhem as a subduction zone. Life in the interior of a continent in no way prepares you for the chaos you'll encounter when seafloor dives under continent...
So goes popular opinion: the lottery’s an egregious societal evil implemented and overseen by shape-shifting, blood-drinking reptilian aliens. And that may be largely true – designed to slowly and quietly bleed dry your pockets – that is, unless you learn to drive it.Assuming drawings actually are random, all the science in the world can’t help you pick the winning numbers...
On the sprawling expanse of the southern Namibian farmlands, an apex predator is under attack.Livestock farmers are killing the Namibian Caracal, a medium-sized carnivore and apex predator for the region...
A thought-provoking exhibition called Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration is currently at the American Museum of Natural History (it runs through August 12; it’s possibly worth noting that Scientific American has participated in some of the publicity associated with Beyond Planet Earth, having hosted a Tweetup at the museum on January 18)...
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