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February 28, 2007
Its causes unknown, Colony Collapse Disorder is decimating North American honeybee populations—and putting billions of dollars worth of agricultural crops in jeopardy this year.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 9:08 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2007
Have you ever blown it on a standardized test? Had your mind go blank during a job interview? Maybe it's because of your superior capabilities.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 5:09 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2007
A new filtered feed brings the highlights of ScienceBlogs right to your reader.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 5:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2007
Why the stereotype of the lonely brainy woman is a trope whose time has come; plus, a new photo gallery (and contest) celebrating "girl-geeks" of style and substance.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:50 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2007
Category: Silliness
Global climate change may melt glaciers, slash biodiversity, and displace countless coastal dwellers, but there's one thing rising temperatures will never boil away: Our sense of style! That's the message Diesel (the jeans company, not the fuel) hopes to spread...
Posted by Maggie Wittlin at 9:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2007
A new study ranks a natural birth control method as highly as the hormonal pill.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:44 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 20, 2007
Sharpen your pencils, fire up your computers, and enter an unbeatable science is culture t-shirt design for your chance to win a 60-gig iPod, $1500 in cash, and, you better believe it, an Uncle Milton green gel ant farm.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 9:47 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2007
A new rememberance of Carl Sagan highlights the scientist's role as an introducer of skeptical thought to the public.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 1:21 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 16, 2007
Category: Announcement
What does your state do with its garbage?
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 11:59 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 15, 2007
Psychologist Carol Dweck believes that praise can hurt smart kids in surprising ways.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 3:40 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
The World's Worst Weather turns boiling water into snow--instantaneously.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 12:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 14, 2007
Category: Announcement
It takes a lot of lethal pesticides to say, "I Love You."
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 12:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 13, 2007
Tune in to daily podcasts from the route up Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's tallest free-standing mountain and, at 19,340 feet, the highest peak in Africa.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 1:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
More than three-quarters of Australians say they would drink recycled sewage water.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 12:01 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 12, 2007
Category: Announcement
Marine biologist (and Harvard Ph.D.) Randy Olsen gave up his tenured professorship to pursue a career in film. Some might call this rash, but it gave Olsen time to create one of the more talked-about scientific documentaries of the decade. See if it's playing at a movie house near you this Darwin Day.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 12:35 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 9, 2007
Category: Announcement
Screwing our way to a greener future.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 8:00 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
Combatting the cycle of TV addiction.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 1:20 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 8, 2007
Category: Announcement
Another notch in the conservation movement's bedpost.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 2:44 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
With a gasifier, a bioreactor, and a modified diesel engine to power it, your subwoofer could be the envy of the neighborhood.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 10:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 7, 2007
Category: Announcement
It's New York Fashion Week. Bring on the (sugar-free) eye candy.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 2:15 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
Propagate. Mutate. Kill.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 10:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 6, 2007
Category: Announcement
Ever wonder where old computers go when they die? The developing world.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 3:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 4, 2007
Category: Announcement
In the wake of the IPCC Report, this bill may have slipped under your radar.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 9:11 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 3, 2007
Category: Announcement
Sinking whaling ships since 1979.
Posted by Sarah Dasher at 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 2, 2007
Category: Announcement
Here's three quotes from today's IPCC press conference, which I transcribed straight from the webcast (hence the wacky grammar)...
Posted by Don Hoyt Gorman at 2:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A plain-English overview of the IPCC report's findings, and a question about climate activism in the age of assured global warming.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 1, 2007
Hours before the release of the IPCC's "Climate Change 2007" report, the internet buzzes with early punditry.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 6:03 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A unique event at the New York Academy of Sciences urges architects to take their necessary place on the front lines of the environmental movement.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 9:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
