The Sciences
How to Hold Your Own Board Meeting
How to put together a board meeting for your personal brand.
Symbiartic
The art of science and the science of art.
Mind
Life on Mars Will Mess with Your Head
Sure, you've experienced Eastern time, Pacific time and Greenwich Mean Time, but what's it like to live on Martian time?
Tech
Is it Time for Twitter to Verify Artists?
Celebrities, journalists and politicians are all likely to receive the coveted Verified badge on Twitter. Presumably, this is due to all of these careers adding value to the platform for the average user, and to distinguish their identities from malicious imposters and parody accounts...
The Sciences
Mathematically Precise Crosshatching
The technique of hatching, using many thin, parallel lines to describe form, texture and shadow has been in use since at least the middle ages. It lends itself well to etching, engraving and drawing, and was a favourite technique of Albrecht D ürer ...
The Sciences
I Unfollowed Everyone to Build a Better Twitter Feed
The Chrome extension for Twitter was installed, and I had time for a quick shower before cycling to work. Without letting myself think about it too much, I pressed MASS UNFOLLOW, saw it was working, and ran to the shower...
The Sciences
We Are All Broken
How Mariette Marinus turned a meditation on suffering into a series of animal characters
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Space
Pluto Flyby Already Inspiring Artists
As the probe whizzes past, paint is already being dabbed, splattered and scumbled. The Pluto flyby is astounding everyone including artists. Here are a few works of #sciart that really stood out to me on Twitter, marking this historic event and the images from the NASA team and the New Horizons probe...
Sustainability
The Future Arrives in Daubs of Paint
Painter Marcel Guldemond has tapped into something that's increasingly on my mind lately - art that normalizes science and our potential future.
The Sciences
Battling the Burnout Monster
It happens to everyone, supposedly. You're being productive. You're working hard. You feel like you're moving forward, but it feels laborious, like you're going upstream. And then, suddenly (or not so suddenly), you run out of steam, hit a wall, fall on your ass...
The Sciences
Glendon Ranting about Proper Image Use Again
Oh here we go again. The Internet Image Cop is astride his high horse and galloping through the online festival while popping everyone's balloons
Blog Index
@ScientificAmerican
STAFFBehind the scenes at Scientific American
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Anthropology in Practice
Exploring the human condition.
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Beautiful Minds
Insights into intelligence, creativity, personality, and well-being
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Budding Scientist
Everything you always wanted to know about raising science-literate kids
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Cross-Check
Critical views of science in the news
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Dark Star Diaries
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Dog Spies
Explore the science behind the dog in your bed
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Extinction Countdown
News and research about endangered species from around the world
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Eye of the Storm
The Science Behind Extreme Weather
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Frontiers for Young Minds
Science by and for kids ages 8-15
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Guest Blog
Commentary invited by editors of Scientific American
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Hot Planet
Climate science in a changing world
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Illusion Chasers
Illusions, Delusions, and Everyday Deceptions
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Life, Unbounded
Discussion and news about planets, exoplanets, and astrobiology
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Observations
Opinion, arguments & analyses from guest experts and from the editors of Scientific American
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Roots of Unity
Mathematics: learning it, doing it, celebrating it.
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Rosetta Stones
Adventures in the good science of rock-breaking.
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SA Visual
STAFFIllustrating science since 1845
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Talking back
STAFFA science blog, sans blague
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The Artful Amoeba
A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth
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Voices
Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.
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