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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN News, Nov 18, 2011


From Patents to Poetry: A Breakdown of Scientific American's Very First Issue
Scientific American (blog)
Mr. Porter had an ambitious agenda for his magazine, wanting to keep topics specific enough to benefit those in the field of science andengineering but general enough to make it accessible and helpful to the common reader. Scientific American ...
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A New Creation Story
Scientific American (blog)
Clay Farris Naff tries to do just that in a post today on the Scientific American guest blog titled, “A Secular Case for Intentional Creation.” The post isn't about the creation of Earth or humanity, which Naff kindly considers settled, but about the ...
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The Charismatic Misogynist
Scientific American (blog)
As a blogger for Scientific American, I work for Nature Publishing. I am deeply disappointed that an article like this has been published by a company I am associated with in any way. Rybicki doesn't threaten rape or malign the general intelligence of ...
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Bleed Pretty Cells: interview with Michele Banks
Scientific American (blog)
At long last, I'm pleased to present an interview I knew I wanted to be doing way back when Scientific American first approached Kalliopi and myself about starting a blog. My name is Michele Banks. I'ma painter living in Washington, DC. ...
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Use of Avastin for Breast Cancer Nixed by FDA
Scientific American (blog)
... in subpopulations of women with breast cancer who might see more benefit. About the Author: Katherine Harmon is an associate editor forScientific American covering health, medicine and life sciences. Follow on Twitter @katherineharmon. fda logo.
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Scientific American (blog)
Can Science Solve–Really Solve–the Problem of Beauty?
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 four books, including The End of Science (Addison Wesley, 1996) and The End of War ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Phone Calls and Exercise Make Pain Treatments More Effective
Scientific American (blog)
About the Author: Katherine Harmon is a reporter for Scientific Americancovering health, medicine, neuroscience and general life sciences for the website. Follow on Twitter @katherineharmon. woman on phone with pain.
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Scientific American (blog)
Biotech Visionary G. Steven Burrill Honored With Breath of Life Award From the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... life sciences, high technology, and manufacturing industries worldwide. Most recently, Burrill received the 2011 Scrip Lifetime Achievement Award for the contributions to the industry made throughout his career. In 2002, Scientific American ...
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About Clay Farris Naff
Scientific American (blog)
... United Press International, a freelance reporter for National Public Radio, a science-and-religion columnist for the Metanexus Institute, and a freelance writer for Earth Magazine, The Humanist, and Scientific American, among other publications. ...
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The Best Video of Earth From Space Ever Made
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.
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When biologists become designers of humans, then what?
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
By Mary Catherine O'Connor | November 15, 2011, 9:50 PM PST Scientific American'sOscillator blog on Tuesday ran a thought-provoking piece by biological designer Christina Agapakis that ponders the possibilities around genetically engineering humans ...
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Blogs – a means to finding people to do rhythmic things with?
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.
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Cholesterol and Controversy: Past, Present and Future
Scientific American (blog)
An American scientist with a penchant for biomedical research, Gofman was aware of Anitschkow's cholesterol feeding experiments and, unlike most other scientists during that era, he took these results quite seriously. He was convinced of a clear link ...
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Scientific American (blog)
PLoS ONE News and Blog Round-Up
PLoS Blogs (blog)
This article was covered by ABC, Scientific American, and National Journal. A new study finds that 147 companies control 40% of the world's economy. Swiss researchers have produced a map of the global economic structure, showing the intricate, ...
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PLoS Blogs (blog)
If Chickens Like Consonant Music, Will They Hate BB King? That's Not Even the ...
Scientific American (blog)
Here's a more persuasive point, for most Americans: The minor third played against a major third chord, the essence of the blues (and much rock), creates a minor second interval, the very interval that Scientific American describes as the epitome of a ...
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Serratia marcescens
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.
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FISH FACTS: Robofish - putting pressure on polluters
Fishing World
I recently found a news report in Scientific American that, at one level, was a very informative feature that communicated some fascinating information on technological advances. But at another level, it's a worrying sign of the times. ...
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Fishing World
Funds Restored to Build the James Webb Space Telescope
Scientific American (blog)
“There's no competition in the past and there's nothing planned for the future, as far as I know. It's unique, it's irreplaceable, it's the only one.” About the Author: John Matson is an online news reporter for Scientific American focusing on space, ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Grapefruits made safe for people on meds
Times of India
And we've crossed these with ordinary grapefruit," Scientific American quoted Fred Gmitter, a citrus geneticist at the University of Florida as saying. These new hybrid grapefruits have even less of the compounds than do other foods that don't get ...
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Reaction Wednesday #1: Framing, (Social) Justice and Parity
Scientific American (blog)
It's a perfect story of how science intersections with justice (and social justice, since the incarceration rate of African-Americans is disproportionately high). Story #2: Amarantus BioSciences Tops Black Tech List highlights the achievement of this ...
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Scientist, astronomer, artist to speak in La Verne Library program Saturday
Contra Costa Times
Butler has published articles on science, nature and maritime subjects in international publications ranging from The Times of London to Scientific American. He has also interviewed such pioneering astronauts as Buzz Aldrin, Alan Shepard, Gene Cernan, ...
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H5N1 transmission experiment stirs concern
CIDRAP
Fouchier gave a general description of his experiments at a European meeting in September, according to a news story published in Scientific American after the meeting. He and his team introduced various mutations into the virus and watched their...
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Taiwan researchers score breakthrough in solar cell technology
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Other US journals such as Chemical & Engineering News and Scientific Americanhave also published articles on the major breakthrough in dye-sensitized solar celltechnology, hailing it as yet another milestone in the global development of renewable...
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The case against synchronized periods
Boing Boing
Kate Clancy, an anthropologist who studies the evolutionary medicine of women's reproductive physiology, has a post on Scientific Americanblogs looking at the research that's poked holes in the synchronized periods hypothesis. ...
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Boing Boing
Fecal transplants hold promise, but face regulatory hurdles
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
... our radar again because Scientific American is publishing in its December 2011 issue an essay, “Swapping Germs,” by science journalist Maryn McKenna describing the health benefits of fecal transplants and the regulatory hurdles the treatment faces. ...
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Paul Krugman Flunks Moore's Law
American Spectator
Well, serves you right for relying on Scientific American. As anyone who has read that once venerable magazine of late can tell you, it's much more about politics than science. In the first place, Moore's Law has nothing to do with price. ...
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American Spectator
Motivation for War and 10 Years of Armed Exploration
OpEdNews
Consider then, selected excerpts from the Oct. 2011 article by Sarah Simpson, free-lance writer and contributing editor for Scientific American. Simpson's opening paragraph states, "The scene at first resembles many that play out daily in the war-torn...
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Artists Help Push Science Forward
Newswise (press release)
... aimed at engaging public interest in science and especially paleontology through a Tiktaalik website, Facebook page, and Twitter feed, and writes a blog, “Symbiartic,” about the intersection of science and art, for Scientific American. ...
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Can Algae Save the World? A Q&A with Craig Venter
LiveScience.com
Scientific American spoke with Venter about his hopes for algae and synthetic biology. Looking at the yield of different agricultural crops, none of them is very impressive compared with what needs to be done [to replace oil]. ...
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What Does it Mean to Do the Right Thing? Time to #OccupyNPG
Scientific American (blog)
My experience at Scientific American suggests that most folks here understand social media and blogs, and are respectful, thoughtful and kind. These are people who want to make the world a better place throughscience and science communication. ...
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Mountain for some, molehill for others
Chicago Tribune
One headline this summer in the popular science magazine Scientific Americandeclared: "It's Time to End the War on Salt." Though some hope blanket recommendations will stem the high sodium tide wrought by processed food and obesity, the public's ...
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The "Mouse" Roars: Photo of Water Creature Resembling a Mouse Earns First ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The tour of BioScapes winners is sponsored by Olympus America in cooperation withScientific American. Olympus selects outstanding authorities in microscope imaging as judges for each year's competition. This year's BioScapes panel of judges included ...
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What's so great about daylight saving time?
Muse
Some scientists say yes. Chronobiologist and blog editor Bora Zivkovic wrote in hisScientific American blog that “One possibility is that you are less likely to suffer a heart attack [the Monday following the fall change] than on any other Monday of ...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Sings In Autotune In Symphony of Science 'Onward to the ...
Huffington Post
In a 2009 NOVA scienceNOW segment, the astrophysicist interviews Andy Hildebrand, the creator of autotune software, and both work together to create a slightly more harmonious melody of Tyon's singing, Scientific American points out. ...
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New Heart Disease Test Brings Higher Costs and More Procedures
Scientific American (blog)
About the Author: Katherine Harmon is an associate editor for Scientific American covering health, medicine and life sciences. Follow on Twitter @katherineharmon. coronary computed tomography angiography.
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LeBien Joining Simon & Schuster
Publishers Weekly
... where he is publisher of the Hill & Wang and Scientific American imprints. In his eight years at FSG, LeBien focused on building a history list while also acquiring other nonfiction titles, from sports to science to graphic nonfiction. ...
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Eye Evolution Gets Its War And Peace
Science 2.0
"Writing a book like this is for people who have that same curiosity but won't necessarily have biology or ophthalmology expertise, they understand science the way a Science2.0 or a Scientific American reader does but they are not experts. ...
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Disunified front
Reno News & Review
According to Scientific American, “In 2000, France considered the option of ending reprocessing in 2010 and concluded that doing so would reduce the cost of nuclear electricity.” One Nevada Republican not joining the pro-dump group is US Sen. ...
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The Sunday Conversation: Alan Alda
Los Angeles Times
Plus, I have a lot of friends who are scientists who've helped me out. I love to watch how scientists' minds work. The great pleasure for me on [the PBS series] "Scientific American Frontiers" was not only to hear about their work but to hear their ...
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Los Angeles Times
Giant Sea Sponge and Possible Eames Inspiration Rediscovered in Singapore
Gizmodo
"My heart skipped a beat when I saw it in Singapore waters this year," Mr. Lim recently wrote on his Facebook page. Luckily there was a mid-century-modern chair handy where he could sit down for a moment! [Scientific American]
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Remembering the Great Dr. Paul Epstein, Who Helped Warn the World of the ...
ThinkProgress
Full Cost Accounting for the Life Cycle of Coal * Paul publishes very widely in the peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature: the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Scientific American, Bulletin of the American Meteorological ...
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ThinkProgress
Squid mystery in Mexican waters unraveled by Stanford biologist and a class of ...
EurekAlert (press release)
For more details of his squid-filled summer field season – including some recipes for preparing squid – see his 2011 field blog at Scientific American Expeditions. Blog posts by the students in the 2010 holistic biology class are also online.
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Researchers find life in the Dead Sea: Scientific American Video
Scientists reconstruct giant sauropod dinosaur · Tentacled snake uses sneaky strategy to catch fish play arrow ... Evolution; Health; Mind & Brain; Space; Technology; MoreScience .... News 23 hours ago | 12 ...
www.scientificamerican.com/video.cfm?id=researchers...
Ask Brian Greene Anything–Really ... - Scientific American Blog
News; Features; Ask the Experts; Edit This; Extreme Tech; Fact or Fiction ... Bring Science ...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/.../ask-brian-greene-anything-rea...
New Clues for Improving Antibiotics for Tolerant ... - e! Science News
Get science news via ... class of bacteria that also resist antibiotics, but for reasons that have puzzled scientists. ... Read the whole article on Scientific American ...
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