At the tone, the time will be 10:25 and 30 seconds. The temperature is 38 degrees. Growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, you had to call ...
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Blinding Me with Science
Up until my junior year of high school, I had hated science. I tuned out at the mention of chlorophyll and photosynthesis. I loathed the smell of ...
Mt. Jeez, Ohio
Science Saturday: 21st-Century Dust Bowl
A disturbing article, “Parched: A New Dust Bowl Forms in the Heartland,” over at National Geographic last month gave attention to ...
For Science, Denmark, and My Heart
On the way to the health clinic, some 60 miles west, I drive through a town called Denmark. This makes me happy and I slow down a little to ...
Science Saturday
Bee Happy. Fewer bee colonies were lost over the last winter than the previous year, according to the annual survey of beekeepers by the United ...
The Triumphant Return of “Science Saturday” in Pigspittle
The Case for Vampirism. If researchers are on the right track, it may just be possible to treat Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias ...
Belated, Guilt-Ridden Science Saturday
On Saturday night, I dreamed that I could see Saturn’s rings. Hard to tell where I was standing—on Saturn itself? on a nearby moon?— but ...
Science Saturday
They feel your pain. Children between the ages of seven and 12 appear to be naturally inclined to feel empathy for others in pain, according to ...
Science Saturday
Keeping with the 4th of July weekend theme, we welcome back Science Saturday with the politics of science. According to the Scientists and ...
Science Saturday: The Cute-as-a-Button Edition
Science Saturday
The End of an Epoch? Geologists from the University of Leicester propose that humankind has so altered the Earth that it has brought about an end ...