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Category Archives: Science
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How BP would handle a coffee spill.
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77 Words: “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot (Crown, 2010) - Cells from Henrietta Lacks, a cancer patient in the 1950s, started something that seems more magical than scientific. Johns Hopkins doctors who took the cells from Lacks, a poor African American farmer, never imagined creating HeLa – the “immortal” cells grown in culture [...]
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High-risk sleepwalking
When I read “Raiding the Refrigerator, but Still Asleep” by Randi Hutter Epstein in The New York Times, I immediately had two questions: 1. Whoa! Do people actually binge eat in their sleep? 2. Do people do this in poor countries, or just in places where there’s a lot of extra food sitting around? Epstein’s [...]
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Gimme five so I can blog faster
Human touch is a powerful language, says a study written about by Ben Carey of The New York Times. The story says a range of emotions can be shown, or triggered, by the most casual interactions, such as a slap on the back or a high-five. Touch makes people feel better and even excel at [...]
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God is in the details…and the DNA
We humans hunt, gather, mate…and we instinctively reach out for something bigger than ourselves. We’ve evolved over zillions of years and all these behaviors seem to be wired into us, according to a tantalizingly short New York Times article, “The Evolution of the God Gene.” Archaeologists in Mexico are the source for this provocative view. [...]
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Try taking these with that puny little iPhone
This surely violates copyright law, but I’m going to risk it to draw attention to what has to be the most wonderful collection of photos to grace a website. These Smithsonian magazine shots give our solar system its due: shockingly beautiful in its alternating moods of violence and calm. The pictures originated during various space-exploration [...]
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Happy hour in the woods, that’s the ticket
Why is it that every new revelation about boosting brainpower requires pursuing some pastime I’ve taken great pains to avoid? The two examples that prompted this worry: A brief piece in The New York Times claims “moderate drinking” after age 60 reduces the odds of developing dementia. A fascinating essay that ran some months back [...]
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One small step
The brief profile of astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the June 21 New York Times Sunday Magazine delighted me. He’s a hero of mine, and his dry sense of humor comes through in Deborah Solomon’s column. When men first walked on the moon 40 years ago, it was big news at Camp Teela-Wooket in Roxbury, Vt. [...]
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