Why Not Say It Simply? How About Very Simply?
There are people (and I hear from them constantly) who think if a subject is sophisticated, like science, the language that describes it should be sophisticated, too.If smart people say torque,...
View ArticleAnother Year And I'm Still Here: A New Year's Meditation
Updated Jan. 1, 2013: I've added a postscript to this post. You can find it at the bottom of this page. Look at yourself. Right now.You are muscle,skin, bone, brain, blood, warmed by energy, and all of...
View ArticleGrrr, Said The Grylloblattid. I'm Not Leaving. Not Yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbR-dT83zKM
View ArticlePhooey On Flu
A lot of you have had it by now, or are having it or are about to be exposed. This year's flu is called "H3N2" and this week it's doing big business in about 47 states, Chicago and New York. If you've...
View ArticleWhat Happened When Humans Met An Alien Intelligence? Sex Happened
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i_oJn-9d_0
View ArticleCreepy Critters in Sensitive Places: How Science Reporters Get Your Attention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awtMPTl7Cks
View ArticleThe Big Squeeze: Can Cities Save The Earth?
Let's get dense. If we take all the atoms inside you, all roughly 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them, and squeeze away all the space inside, then, says physicist Brian Greene:That's a very...
View ArticleA 'Who Do You Hang With?' Map of America
Look at the center of this map, at the little red dot that marks Kansas City. Technically, Kansas City is at the edge of Missouri, but here on this map it's in the upper middle section of a bigger...
View ArticleThe Boomerang Rocket Ship: Shoot It Up, Back It Comes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoxiK7K28PUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orUjSkc2pG0
View ArticleMIT's Magic Bag Of Sand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMis7LPZE9Mhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okciiW26A6chttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wShKl0Hbw0
View ArticleWhy Men Die Younger Than Women: The 'Guys Are Fragile' Thesis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdIRrmNN_CQ
View ArticleHow To Disappear When Someone's Spying On You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YO4TTpYg7g
View ArticleDrone It To Me, Baby
Spies used them first, then the Air Force, then cops, then mischievous civilians; drones, for some reason, are what gawkers use to gawk. They're spy accessories. But not only spy accessories. Thanks to...
View ArticleHow To Build Little Doors Inside Your Shell: The Secrets of Snail Carpentry
"I am going to withdraw from the world," says a snail in Hans Christian Andersen's tale The Snail and the Rosebush. "Nothing that happens there is any concern of mine."In the fall, snails get cold....
View ArticleWild Things Hanging From Spruce Trees
Stanley Kunitz, one of our great poets, planted a spruce tree next to his house in Provincetown, Mass., and over the years that tree attracted some tenants, a family of garden snakes. I didn't know...
View ArticleWhat We Can Never, Ever Know: Does Science Have Limits?
I got two books in the mail that, if they could have, would've poked, scratched and ripped each others' pages out. I don't know if Martin Gardner and Patricia Churchland ever met, but their books show...
View ArticleBorn Wet, Human Babies Are 75 Percent Water. Then Comes Drying
Look at this baby.Lovely, no? Now think of this baby abstractly — as a sack of hundreds of millions of atoms.
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