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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN News, Apr 13, 2012


Science, meet life: Why I write on addiction in the Bronx
Scientific American (blog)
In my last post, I received a hefty mix of feedback, some outlandishly negative, including an array of bitter emails: “Science belongs in Scientific American.” It's the people who matter, which is why we talk about science. Context, in this case social ...
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The Funny Side of Climate Change
Scientific American
And she has just released a 16-page comic, The Carbon Supermarket, about carbon-offset markets as folly, which she has allowed Scientific American to reproduce in full (below). I talked with Evans by phone to find out why she thinks cartoons can help ...
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Scientific American
'Scientific American' technology writer to present lecture on medical technologies
Oklahoma Daily
by Hillary McLain | April 11, 2012 | 0 comments A New York Times and “Scientific American” technology writer will visit the OU Health Sciences Center today to speak about medical technologies. David Pogue's lecture, “Disruptive Technology in Healthcare ...
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Will Cameron's deep-sea voyage yield breakthrough drugs?
CNET
Moviemaker's expedition to the Mariana Trench could usher in a new type of undersea lab that can extract chemical compounds from microorganisms living in the deepest parts of the ocean. by Scientific American April 12, 2012 5:28 PM PDT ...
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Introducing: Kristina Ashley Bjoran
Scientific American (blog)
By Bora Zivkovic | April 10, 2012 | This is a series of Q&As with young and up-and-coming science, health and environmental writers and reporters. They have recently hatched in the Incubators (science writing programs at schools of journalism), ...
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Scientific American (blog)
When Science and Politics Mix: Fang Lizhi (1936–2012)
Scientific American (blog)
What follows is a short summary with sections cribbed from my actual profile of him, which appeared in the May 1994 issue of Scientific American (pdf for purchase; no html version available yet). Since assuming power after World War II, ...
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Scientific American (blog)
A Star With Nine Planets, Maybe More?
Scientific American (blog)
7th 2012, and he is working on 'The Copernicus Complex' (both fromScientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux.) Follow on Twitter @caleb_scharf. The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American.
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Scientific American (blog)
Cave Bacteria Finding Suggests Ancient Origins of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
Scientific American (blog)
“This fact further underlines the importance of judicious use of antibiotics,” the researchers wrote in their paper. About the Author: Katherine Harmon is an associate editor for Scientific American covering health, medicine and life sciences.
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Scientific American (blog)
Nodding Disease Origins Remain Unexplained
Scientific American (blog)
And they are currently in the process of getting approval to begin the first, 80-child round of clinical trials. About the Author: Katherine Harmon is an associate editor for Scientific American covering health, medicine and lifesciences.
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Scientific American (blog)
Three Signs of Hope and One Omen on Climate
Huffington Post (blog)
With magazines like Scientific American publishing articles titled: "Global Warming Close to Becoming Irreversible," and 15000-plus temperature records set this spring in the US, it's no wonder the CFO of the business I work for said to me yesterday: ...
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The Sweet Smell Of Synthetic Whale Ambergris
Science 2.0
Rachel Nuwer is a science journalist who writes for venues including the New York Times, ScienceNOW and Scientific American. She lives in Brooklyn... In Moby Dick, Melville scoffs that “fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence ...
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Chemical Heritage Foundation Honors Biotech Visionary G. Steven Burrill With ...
MarketWatch (press release)
He serves on the editorial boards of Scientific American, the Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, and Life Science Leader and also serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies and BioAg Gateway, City of Madison.
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Will This Post Make Sam Harris Change His Mind About Free Will?
Scientific American (blog)
Scientific American columnist Michael Shermer, when he hosted a recent talk by Harris at Caltech, praised him for “cutting through all the obfuscation and getting straight to the point” about free will in his new book. The neurologist Oliver Sacks ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Ancient cave home to resistant bacteria
UPI.com
A team led by scientists from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, descended 1300 feet into the Lechuquilla Cave in New Mexico to collect samples of bacteria, Scientific American reported Wednesday. Since surface water takes thousands of years to ...
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UPI.com
Dinosaur Couture Should Be Open to All
Scientific American (blog)
I was considering this in the context of science illustration. Last year, before the Scientific American Blog Network launched, my co blogger Kalliopi Monoyios wrote an excellent piece about the Gregory S. Paul dinosaur skeleton controversy, ...
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Scientific American (blog)
'The Republican Brain': Probing the limits of Left and Right
Aljazeera.com
Criticism only spread over time, with additional high-profile editorials inScientific American that June ("Faith-Based Reasoning") and in Sciencein January 2003 ("An Epidemic of Politics"). The Beltway media largely ignored the scientists.
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Aljazeera.com
Breaking ambergris news
Chicago Reader
That's partly conjecture, though: Scientific American reports thatscientists, never having seen a whale actually vomit up ambergris, now believe that it's excreted along with fecal matter. No one has ever seen a sperm whale excrete ambergris, ...
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Chicago Reader
Irreversible global warming may be imminent (1)
Record-Searchlight (blog)
According to a Reuters article published in Scientific American our planet "is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter, making this decade critical in efforts to contain global warming." We could see a rise of global ...
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Common Pesticide Implicated Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
Scientific American (blog)
By Katherine Harmon | April 6, 2012 | 1 Honeybee colonies have been mysteriously dying off all over the globe, leaving scientists scratching their heads—and important crops languishing in the fields unpollinated. Viruses, mites, pesticides and poor ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Bugs Are Pooping Diseases Into Your Mouth While You Sleep
Jezebel
But according to Scientific American, the tropical Chagas disease—a "silent killer" common in Central and South America—might be more common in North America than anyone thought. And so, following the time-honored formula "science + popular media...
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New Technology Maps the Surprising Subtleties of Childhood and Teen Obesity
Scientific American (blog)
But she hopes that further study of the spatial environment will help provide new insights into battling childhood obesity. About the Author: Katherine Harmon is an associate editor for Scientific American covering health, medicine and life sciences.
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Scientific American (blog)
Cut the Appendix Surgery–Antibiotics are Effective for Uncomplicated Appendicitis
Scientific American (blog)
So until those stats improve, Bakker noted, “appendectomy for uncomplicated appendicitis will probably continue.” About the Author: Katherine Harmon is an associate editor for Scientific American covering health, medicine and life sciences.
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Scientific American (blog)
Corvallis City Council Should Implement Plastic Bag Ban
Huffington Post
According to Scientific American, nearly 8 percent of the world oil production goes into making plastic -- a substantial demand for a fleeting product, at least in use. In fact, plastic is anything but fleeting. According to the EPA, plastic litter ...
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Lines: Author Duhigg explains how habits work
Sacramento Bee
Among them is "The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain" by Judith Horstman of Sacramento. Now award-winning New York Times investigative reporter Charles Duhigg narrows the focus of recent neuroscientific research with "The Power of...
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How Is Disaster Aid Being Retooled to Meet Catastrophes That Strike Cities?
Scientific American
Scientific American spoke with Brown about Katye, the impact of natural disasters on rapidly expanding cities and how cell phones may be used to help drought-plagued areas of Africa. CHF has been providing international aid for 50 years.
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Scientific American
German scientists link two labs with 'universal quantum network'
Register
Researcher Stephan Ritter of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics explained toScientific American that the combination of atomic and photonic qubits was proposed 15 years ago, but it's difficult to achieve in practice because "if you want to use ...
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Blanking out: How stress can shut down the command centre in the brain
Daily Mail
A review in the latest issue of Scientific American looked at a number of studies that showed what makes a person vulnerable to anxiety. Genetic makeup is one factor as some people have weaker enzymes that are needed to return the brain back to normal ...
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Daily Mail
Google Currents for iOS Gets Instant Sync, Offline Reading, Translate, More
iClarified
Publisher editions - Publishers such as Forbes, The Guardian, TechCrunch, PBS, Saveur, Popular Science, ABC, 500px, Fast Company, Scientific American, CBS, The Atlantic, and more have produced hundreds of editions including in-depth articles, videos, ...
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What Makes It So Easy To Be Green (in Nature)?
KQED QUEST (blog)
Scientific American has a great article with more on fruit's ripening process. In the animal world, coloration can serve a multitude of purposes. Muddy-green American alligators enjoy great camouflage in their swampy homes, allowing them to sneak up on...
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MIT Robotics Team Uses Self-Sculpting Sand to Duplicate Objects
ThomasNet Industrial News Room
It's clear that at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), recycling has taken on a whole new meaning. Specifically, researchers at MIT's Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL), at the university's ComputerScience and Artificial Intelligence ...
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Scientists demo quantum network prototype
IT PRO
By Rene Millman, 12 Apr 2012 at 17:18 An elementary computer network using the principles of quantum physics has been demonstrated by a group of German scientists. Boffins at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics created a simple quantum network ...
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IT PRO
UR follows nationwide trend with push into STEM education
Campus Times
While Goldfarb lauded the benefits of having successful researchers leading the next generation of scientists, he cautioned that their success as researchers should not come at the cost of students' education. “Good teachers are rarely rewarded by the ...
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Natural Gas Is Bridge to Nowhere without Carbon Price & Serious Methane Leak ...
CleanTechnica
You can also find my work on Scientific American, Reuters, Change.org, most of the sites in the Important Media network, & many other places. For more, or to connect, go to: zacharyshahan.com I am very pro renewable energy, CNG vehicles & natural gas ...
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Talk Nation Radio: John Horgan on the End of War
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. A former senior writer atScientific American (1986-1997), he has also written for The New York Times, Time,...
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The Flame Challenge
The Stony Brook Press
Their discussions are filled with jargon, making it hard to connect sciencewith society. Alda's experience interviewing scientists on Scientific American Frontiers, which was aired on PBS, brought the issue to his attention once again.
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The Stony Brook Press
Bye-bye barf: whale vomit no longer necessary to make perfumes
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Before you go check your perfume bottles, take solace that ambergris isn't generally used in American perfumes, according to Scientific American, but European companies still use it. For a long time it was in Chanel No. 5. The market is big enough that ...
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Yes, Deniers, Nature Reports Global Warming Was Preceded By Increasing CO2 ...
ThinkProgress
Mr. Lemonick covered science and the environment for TIME magazine for nearly 21 years, where he wrote more than 50 cover stories, and has also written for Discover,Scientific American, Wired, New Scientist and The Washington Post.
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Is a universal quantum network possible?
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
By Charlie Osborne | April 12, 2012, 2:32 AM PDT German scientists say for the first time it has been possible to create an elementary quantum network based on interfaces between single atoms and photons. Communications networks are vital for our daily ...
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Mystery Dolphin Die-Off Hits Peru
Newser
Since January, an estimated 2800 of the sea creatures have been found dead on Peru's northern beaches, reports Scientific American. Experts believe the mass die-off could be caused by acoustic interference stirred up by oil testing or possibly a virus.
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By Professor Sabena
"An international team of scientists has created a handheld, battery powered device that has been shown to effectively rid skin of bacteria in an instant by blasting it with plasma...... (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) ..... iodine found there 2.5 becquerel per gram of dry weight -- was well above levels sampled in kelps prior to the Fukushima release, according to the paper, published online earlier this month in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Professor Sabena's Blog
Update: Homeopathy in Brazilian Scientific American
By Harriet Hall
When I committed the error described above, I disregarded the conceptual content:Scientific American, reflecting what is probably the majority of scientific opinion, understands that homeopathy is not science. Readers outraged by my ...
Science-Based Medicine
Flame Retardants May Create Deadlier Fires - Scientific American ...
In one of the deadliest nightclub fires in American history, 100 people died at a rock ...Get science news via ... Read the whole article on Scientific American ... Newtechnology tracks sparrow migration for first time from California to Alaska ...
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