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The kiddo is asleep for the night. My husband and I sit on kitchen countertops, facing each other

The kiddo is asleep for the night.

Dear EarthTalk : I’m interested in getting a new tattoo, but recently found out that red tattoo ink contains mercury. Is this true of other tattoo inks as well? Are there any ecofriendly alternatives?

In June Scientific American launched its Great Consciousness Contest intended to get readers involved in testing an idea put forward by leading neuroscientists Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi.

In June Scientific American launched its Great Consciousness Contest intended to get readers involved in testing an idea put forward by leading neuroscientists Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi. Their article in SA 's June issue, " A Test for Consciousness ," postulates that slight variations in the placement of objects that occupy ordinary everyday images can completely befuddle the most sophisticated image-recognition capabilities of today's computers.

Today is Ada Lovelace Day . If you are not a regular reader of my other blog , you may not know that I am a tremendous Luddite .

Today is Ada Lovelace Day . If you are not a regular reader of my other blog , you may not know that I am a tremendous Luddite . I prefer hand-drawn histograms and flowcharts to anything I can make with a graphics program

"We are no longer a general purpose search engine," Kavanaugh tells us. Instead, Ask.com uses proprietary, semantic search technology to deliver answers from it's own content banks, community, experts, and from all over the web. Today, Google captures nearly 65% of all U.S.

Thank you for the new way to fingerpaint, Steve.

Thank you for the new way to fingerpaint, Steve.

There is much cheesy lore about the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse: that he popularized the word “eureka”; that he used mirrors to set Roman ships on fire; that a Roman soldier killed him in 212 B.C.

For millions of diabetes sufferers, life is a constant battle to keep their blood sugar balanced, which typically means they have to test their glucose levels and take insulin throughout the day.

On July 22, 2011, a 32-year-old Norwegian named Anders Behring Breivik opened fire on participants in a Labour Party youth camp on the island of Utoya after exploding a bomb in Oslo, resulting in 77 dead, the worst tragedy in Norway since World War II.

Two books and one TV series explore the oddities of the human mind. Extraordinarily complex as the human brain may be, it is far from perfect.

For every 10 ears of corn that are grown in the United States today, only 2 are consumed directly by humans as food.