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My New Image Policy
A reference post for why I’m going to start having silly drawings in my posts instead of real data.
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German Barbarity or Allied Propaganda in 1916?
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: April 22, 1916
Culture
Science Moves and Shakes Time's Top 100 List
Scientists, engineers and tech developers earn spots on magazine’s list of the year’s most influential people
Behavior
Fueling Terror: How Extremists Are Made
The psychology of group dynamics goes a long way toward explaining what drives ordinary people toward radicalism
Culture
Dude, How Did Scientific American End Up in This Jerry Garcia–Howard Wales Album Art?
Do you think it was the issue with the article on “Marihuana”? Mysteries from the inside cover of Hooteroll?
Gambling Gave Science Some Lucky Breaks
The development of statistics, probability theory, game theory and chaos theory owes a lot to people trying to figure out various games of chance.
Archaeologists Uncover Another Branch of the Silk Road
New evidence suggests the ancient trade route ventured through the heights of Tibet
Science at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival and Beyond
Many films on the festival circuit feature science worth watching
Heat ID'd as Subtle Cause of Rockfalls
Rockfalls without an obvious cause (like an earthquake or expanding ice) may be due to hot daily air temperatures expanding small cracks in cliff faces.
The Sciences
The Perfect Bet: Taking the Gambling out of Gambling
Mathematician and author Adam Kucharski talks about his new book The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling (Basic Books, 2016).
How to Survive the Sinking of the Titanic
How did one Titanic crew member survive the icy ocean water, all thanks to his favorite drink?
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Why Do We Share Viral Videos?
Why have cats taken over the Internet?
Find Shows Widespread Literacy 2,600 Years Ago in Judah
Mundane notes about daily life on 16 ceramic shards written about 600 B.C. at an ancient military fortress in the Negev Desert reveal that literacy had to be common.
Chemistry
Deteriorating Plastic Threatens to Ruin Museum Treasures
Plastic in Apollo spacesuits, Andy Warhol paintings and other museum pieces is falling apart. Researchers are learning how to rescue the endangered treasures
The Sciences
In Case You Missed It: 4/4/16 Is a Square Root Day, the French Government will Pave Its Roads with Solar Panels—and More!
Top news from around the world
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A Strange Lesson about Hashtags and Twitter Spam
Last month, the first day of the #SciArt Tweet Storm was bombarded with porn bots during the first few hours. Solving this problem led to an interesting insight into how bots and Twitter function (some vulgar language ahead)...
Space & Physics
Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
High-profile physicists and philosophers gathered to debate whether we are real or virtual—and what it means either way
Culture
The 2016 SciArt Tweet Storm--by the Numbers
The #SciArt Tweet Storm swept over Twitter last month with an astonishing number of tweets displaying the intersection of art and science. In this post Glendon crunches the numbers for the community...
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Talking the Blackest Black with the Mad Art Cast
Mad Art Cast, the podcast of the science-art site Mad Art Lab recently asked Symbiartic's Glendon Mellow to join them and discuss the #SciArt hashtag, the new material Vanta Black, and more...
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How Human Sacrifice Propped Up the Social Order
Understanding the role of state-sanctioned killing does more than illuminate the social evolution of “premodern” cultures
