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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

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 .

Saul Perlmutter is one of three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics this morning . This news is exciting enough, but Perlmutter is no ordinary Nobel Laureate

The heat is on, too Neutrinos that go beyond light speed? Not so fast, say two theoretical physicists. [More]

Recently, we’ve noted that a public composed mostly of non-scientists may find itself asked to trust scientists , in large part because members of that public are not usually in a position to make all their own scientific knowledge.

If you look at the comments on my last post , it seems like everyone agrees that scientists should be more active online. But when I gave my talk last week, I was hardly met with open arms by the scientists themselves. The grad students were mostly on board, but the tenured faculty were more hesitant

As a little girl, some of my fondest memories were watching science and nature shows on American public television with my family: NOVA, National Geographic, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, and The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. I recall as a preteen being transfixed as I watched an episode of NOVA that demonstrated a magnified image of cardiac muscle cells sparsely arranged

In a world where scientific knowledge might be useful in guiding decisions we make individually and collectively, one reason non-scientists might want to listen to scientists is that scientists are presumed to have the expertise to sort reliable knowledge claims from snake oil. [More]

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Just when you thought you’d heard every quantum mystery that was possible, out pops another one. [More]

When I unwrapped my New York Times on Sunday, I was met with a surprise: A front-page, above-the-fold story about a young adult with autism. [More]

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This month’s issue of Scientific American Magazine is a special edition about Cities:

Night owls might think staying up late is a real hoot, but a new study hints that delayed sleep might have a sinister side.

As soon as our species abandoned the daily grind of Stone Age feast-or-famine, we went straight to town.