Why You Should Bet on DC in the Comic Book Horse RaceI'm a science, technology and culture writer who contributes to Forbes, Scientific American Mind, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Esquire, Mental Floss and a smattering of other publications. My upcoming book, "What Makes Your Brain Happy ...
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| Tokiwa T. Smith: Exposing and encouraging urban youth in science and math Scientific American (blog) By DNLee | September 16, 2011 | This month's issue of Scientific AmericanMagazine is a special edition about Cities: Better, Greener, Smarter. Having been born and raised in a city – Memphis, Tennessee, and presently living in another city – St. Louis ... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
| Space – It's not just for Astronauts: Personal reflections from a NASATweetup Scientific American (blog) For other ways to connect see: http://www.nasa.gov/connect Bottom line: You don't need to be an astronaut to be involved with space exploration and you don't need to be a scientist to be a scientific American. About the Author: Karyn Traphagen is a ... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
American Chemical Society names Paul Raeburn 2012 recipient of prestigious ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Raeburn then spent seven years as science editor and a senior writer at BusinessWeek. His freelance writing has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Scientific American, Psychology Today, Self, Technology Review and numerous other ...
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| Annual Nobel Predictions Announced, but Forecasting Prizes Remains a Tricky ... Scientific American (blog) Jean MJ Fréchet of the University of California, Berkeley, and King Abdullah Universityof Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia; Donald A. Tomalia of Central Michigan University and Dendritic Nanotechnologies in Mount Pleasant, Mich.; ... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
| Ghosts, Aliens, Quantum Gravity, Extra Dimensions, Sci Fi--and the Rules of ... Scientific American In addition to her research, she has written a popular book, Warped Passages: Universe's Hidden Dimensions, as well as a libretto for Hypermusic: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes. She is a member of Scientific American's board of advisors. See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American |
| Too Hard For Science? Peter Watts — Fusing Brains Scientific American (blog) About the Author: Charles Q. Choi is a frequent contributor to Scientific American. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Science, Nature, Wired, and LiveScience, among others. In his spare time, he has traveled to all seven continents.... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
Quantum Cheshire Cat: Even Weirder Than Schrödinger's
Scientific American (blog)
About the Author: George Musser is an editor at Scientific American . His primary focus is spacescience, ranging from planets to cosmology. Musser completed his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering and mathematics at Brown University and ...
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| 'Imagine Science' Lineup Announced… Scientific American (blog) How utterly refreshing to see a scientific event garner such A-style treatment! Being a native of Vancouver, BC – I was unfortunately unable to attend the event – butScientific American's Krystal D'Costa of Anthropology in Practice was able to go in... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
| I'ma Johnson from Wisconsin, and It is Pretty Cool Scientific American (blog) By Madeleine Johnson | September 21, 2011 | In a recent Scientific American guest post, Matthew Van Dusen wrote, essentially, who cares about genealogy. He meant specifically “distant genealogy,” and was responding to a summer New York Times article ... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
Reuters short lists UCSD economist for Nobel Prize
SignOnSanDiego.com
As Scientific American notes online, "Even though one third of the Nobels granted in physics, chemistry, economics, and physiology or medicine since 2006 have gone to researchers previously flagged by Thomson Reuters, only 13 of the 111 picks (11.7 ...
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The Scientific Explanations Behind Near-Death Experiences
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According to Scientific American's Charles Q. Choi, 3% of Americans have had a near-death experience; now scientists are beginning to unravel the biological roots of these experiences. Near-death experiences are often thought of as mystical phenomena, ...
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| Superbugs Now Tracked Globally in Interactive Maps Scientific American (blog) About the Author: Katherine Harmon is a reporter for Scientific American covering health, medicine, neuroscience and general life sciences for the website. Follow on Twitter @katherineharmon. Map of MRSA in the US. See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
| Michele Bachmann Wasn't Totally Wrong about HPV Vaccines Scientific American (blog) About the Author: Every week, John Horgan takes a puckish, provocative look at breaking science. A former staff writer at Scientific American, he is the author of several books—most notably, The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the ... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
| Was evolution too risky for American publishers? CBC.ca Loxton, the editor of "Junior Skeptic," the children's science section of Skeptic magazine, decided to write a book about evolution for kids (his book is aimed at ages 8-13) after a colleague, who is also a Scientific American columnist, "pointed out ... See all stories on this topic » |  CBC.ca |
| Archimedes and Euclid? Like String Theory versus Freshman Calculus Scientific American (blog) Far from being a sideshow trick of Monty Pythonesque flavor, it was a true scientific law, one that applies whether it's a scientist in his bath tub or a hot air balloon floating in the air. In the October Scientific American I write about an ... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
| Free Will and Quantum Clones: How Your Choices Today Affect the Universe at ... Scientific American (blog) Quantum art courtesy of garlandcannon. Slide courtesy of Scott Aaronson. About the Author: George Musser is an editor at Scientific American . His primary focus is space science, ranging from planets to cosmology. Musser completed his undergraduate ... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
| Hackers Use Open Hardware to Solve Environmental Problems Scientific American (blog) In the meantime, when it comes to open hardware, resistance is futile (if less than one ohm), as one T-shirt slogan goes. About the Author: David Biello is the associate editor for environment and energy at Scientific American. ... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
| A Robot in Every Home? We're Getting Close Scientific American (blog) In A Robot in Every Home (which is unfortunately behind the Scientific Americanpaywall), Gates outlined the future of robotics, issuing a challenge that would form the Microsoft Robotics Team: I can envision a future in which robotic devices will ... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
| 10 Scientists among 2011 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” Winners Scientific American (blog) Ten of the 22 recipients work in the sciences. Among the winners are sports medicine researcher Kevin Guskiewicz [left], 45, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who spoke with Scientific American in 2008 about his research on the ... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
Tech Universe: Friday 23 September
New Zealand Herald
That's a subtle but important shift in capabilities, that could enhance citizen science too. Scientific American details. URBAN CUTIE: Urbee is a 2-seater 3-wheeler hybrid car from Canada. It's designed to use the power that solar panels on the roof of ...
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Astrophysics and Comedy Bond in Brooklyn
Space.com
... host of TV's "Scientific American"). "There's a lot of belief that goes before evidence" when it comes of people's attitudes toward science, Alda said during the panel, a theme that ended up running throughout much of the evening. ...
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About Robin Anne Smith
Scientific American (blog)
She has also written for the Raleigh News and Observer, the Charlotte Observer, and the blog column of Scientific American. Robin is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, and serves on the board of the local science writing group, ...
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| Cholesterol in Embryos Scientific American (blog) About the Author: Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at Scientific American, chronobiologist, biology teacher, organizer of ScienceOnline conferences and editor of Open Laboratory anthologies of best science writing on the Web. Follow on Twitter @boraz. See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
| From Factory Farms To Test Tubes: The Future Of Meat Neon Tommy The Scientific American described a study coauthored by Hanna Tuomisto, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oxford, that found in vitro meat grown on a vegetarian diet in a bacterial culture would significantly lessen impact on the environment. ... See all stories on this topic » |  Neon Tommy |
| What Questions Do You Have about Energy Efficiency? Scientific American (blog) Join us if you can. In any case, please contribute a question in the comments below or email them to submit@sciam.com. About the Author: David Biello is the associate editor for environment and energy at Scientific American. Follow on Twitter @dbiello. See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
Quinton Jackson and Larry Merchant Illuminate the Science of Laughter
Head Kick Legend
An article in Scientific American notes a recent laughter study from Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist out of Oxford on how laughter releases pain relieving chemicals called endorphins: Across all tests, the participants' ability to tolerate ...
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Global Warming: A Hoax?
Emporia Gazette
If steps are not taken, environmental scientist George M. Woodwell wrote in the January 1978 issue of Scientific American, “Carbon dioxide, until now an apparently innocuous trace gas in the atmosphere, may be moving rapidly toward a central role as a ...
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Moving short film: What if Fukushima had contaminated Tokyo?
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Christopher Mims is a freelance journalist who specializes in technology, sustainability andscience. His work has appeared in Scientific American, WIRED, Popular Science, Fast Company, Good, Discover, Slate, Technology Review, Nature and the Nicholas ...
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| Sequencing art: Lynn Fellman's paleogenomic slideshow Scientific American (blog) By Glendon Mellow | September 22, 2011 | Communicating science through art is sometimes still in its nascent stages, I think. While traditional + digital scientificillustration using representational techniques will always be central to reaching out ... See all stories on this topic » |  Scientific American (blog) |
The Scientific Curmudgeon - Why screening teens for mental illness is a bad idea
The Stute
But clearly our current approach to treating disturbed young people is broken. John Horgan directs the Stevens Center for Science Writings, which is part of the College of Arts & Letters. This column is adapted from one published in Scientific American ...
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Gravity is a theory, but it still seems to work
Cumberland Times-News
Bunch (ie, non-parishioners) to read any recent issues of New Scientist, Nature, Science, ScienceNews, Discover, Scientific American, or National Geographic. You'll see that what Bunch derides as “wild guessing” is in fact the foundation of biology ...
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| Robotic fish test the waters for safety risks PhysOrg.com “We've already tested surface-swimming fish in lakes," said Tan. Their work ahead is how to develop fish that can dive and ascend. The researchers hope to send their robotic fish off to the Gulf of Mexico next year, according to Scientific American. ... See all stories on this topic » |  PhysOrg.com |
Ottawa threatened by oceans planning
Vancouver Sun
This type of science-based marine planning has attracted the attention of Scientific American, which recently included it on a list of 20 "world changing" ideas that will benefit our environment and our economies in the coming years. ...
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| Profile: John Mattick Sydney Morning Herald In 2004, he was invited to publish his findings in the prestigious magazine Scientific American. For the past six years, Mattick's hobby has been his job, after he relinquished the IMB directorship to return full-time to the lab. ... See all stories on this topic » |  Sydney Morning Herald |
Wednesday Round Up #156
PLoS Blogs (blog)
At Context and Variation, now on Scientific American Blogs (congrats, Kate!), Kate Clancy tells us that Parenting is not just for the ladies: on testosterone, fatherhood, and why lower hormones are good for you. Kate provides a parenting story, ...
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The true promise of synthetic biology
Malta Independent Online
The European Union has already issued several reports on the possible use and precautions of such a technology. This is not the only testimony of the fear this technology is eliciting. Scientific American recently also carried an essay on this 'ability ...
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Microbe-managing your life
Charlotte Observer
He also is a writer whose work has appeared in National Geographic, Smithsonian, Natural History and Scientific American. Why he writes: "I find popular writing really helpful for my research. It gives me an excuse to draw on ideas from different ...
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How EHRs Feed The Clinical Research Pipeline
InformationWeek
... those selected for clinical trials," Joe V. Selby, director of Kaiser's research division, states in a recent issue of Scientific American. Using natural language processing to mine EHRs may have sounded like science fiction a few short years ago. ...
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Small fry: The case for smaller fish portions
Grist Magazine
Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, Eating Well, and many more. In May, she was selected as a 2011 Seafood Champion by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Follow her on Twitter.
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NPG's annual letter to customers (2011)
Nature.com (subscription)
We hope to inspire school-age children to consider a science education and career, too, through our membership of Change the Equation. Scientific American has this year launched three key education initiatives, and later this year will help match ...
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| Readers Respond to "I Stick to the Science" and Other ... - World News By admin Scientific American itself recently ran an article it billed as “Novel analysis confirms climate 'hockey stick' graph” [“Still Hotter Than Ever,” by David Appell, News Scan; Scientific American, November 2009]. Rather than providing a platform for ... World News: the latest local... |
| Science-Art Scumble #24 | Symbiartic, Scientific American Blog ... Citizen Science; Topics. Energy & Sustainability; Evolution; Health; Mind & Brain; Space;Technology; More Science; All topics. Magazines. Scientific American ... blogs.scientificamerican.com/.../2011/.../science-art-scumble-2... |
| BEACON research featured on Scientific American blog | BEACON BEACON research featured on Scientific American blog ... The demo is part of a three-day meeting at BEACON, a National Science Foundation-funded think ... beacon-center.org/.../beacon-research-featured-on-scientific-a... |
| Recent Blackout Highlights Nation's Aging ... - e! Science News Get science news via ... said Massoud Amin, director of the Technological Leadership Institute at the University ... Read the whole article on Scientific American ... esciencenews.com/.../recent.blackout.highlights.nations.aging... |
| Time to ban chimp testing say Scientific American editors Entire site, Science, Technology, Medicine, Business, Culture, People ... All Latest News. ...Science of Health: The Ethnic Health Advantage (p 30) ... Editors at Scientific American are available to comment on this topic; please contact the ... www.researchsea.com/.../time_to_ban_chimp_testing_say_scie... |
| Extreme Steps Needed to Meet Climate Target: Scientific American Read Article Article Source: Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American.science, climate-change, global-warming, climate, drought, floods, ... drich13.newsvine.com/_.../7877900-extreme-steps-needed-to-... |
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| Health Data Could Spot Genocide Risk (Scientific American ... Health Data Could Spot Genocide Risk (Scientific American). Share With ... Science news feeds. Register or ... news page. Google News science & technology ... www.nasw.org/health-data-could-spot-genocide-risk-scientific... |
| Scientists Worry over 'Bizarre' Trial for Failing to ... - One News Page Science on One News Page on Thursday, 1 September 2011. ... Trial on Earthquake Prediction:Scientific American http://t.co/6creevMk via @sciam 4 hours ago ... www.onenewspage.com/.../Scientists-Worry-over-Bizarre-Tria... |
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