Satisfy your curiosity with our new eBook, Can We Feed the World? The Future of Food
Still hungry after devouring our September 2013 single topic issue: Food? Engage in some guilt-free gluttony with our new companion eBook: Can We Feed the World?
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WCSJ2013 in Helsinki, a photo-tour
Flying directly from SciFoo in California to WCSJ2013 in Helsinki, Finland is a pretty long trip that requires a pretty big airplane. Those of you who know me well, know I am obsessed with airplanes, am an addict of FlightAlert, choose JetBlue on domestic flights in order to continuously monitor flight statistics, and my first [...]..
Bora’s Picks (September 13th, 2013)
Guppies lie about mate choice to trick rivals by Anne-Marie Hodge: When it comes to sex among guppies, competition is high for those at the top of the game.
The Survival of Humanity
An existential catastrophe would obliterate or severely limit the existence of all future humanity. As defined by Nick Bostrom at Oxford University, an existential catastrophe is one which extinguishes Earth-originating intelligent life or permanently destroys a substantial part of its potential. As such it must be considered a harm of unfathomable magnitude, far beyond tragedy [...]..
Photo Friday: Want to keep cool in the African desert? Try an ARMY-issued solar shade
On top of this solar shade at the sun-baked Camp Lemonier in Djibouti sit 72 solar panels that absorb sunlight to produce two kilowatts of power daily.
#SciAmBlogs Thursday – IgNobels, tech in classrooms, purple centipedes, ketamine, Voyager, obscure trigonometry, and more.
- Jody Passanisi and Shara Peters – Digital Natives Looking to Unplug, Connect - Anna Kuchment – Teachers and App Designers Join Forces - Kyle Hill – Excerpts From The Mad Scientist’s Handbook: So You’re Ready to Vaporize a Human - John R...
Voyager Has Entered The Interstellar Medium
After many claims and statements over the past few years that Voyager 1, our most distant operating spacecraft, has ‘left the solar system’ (it hasn’t, as I explain here), it does now seem that as of August 2012 this extraordinary vehicle has entered the interstellar medium...
Teachers and App Designers Join Forces
Starting this week, developers from a dozen high tech startups are entering New York City classrooms to help teachers brainstorm solutions to educational challenges.
Digital Natives Looking to Unplug, Connect
Make a prediction: how would you think a student today would answer these questions? If you were creating a classroom, what would it look like?
#SciAmBlogs Wednesday – Hurricane Humberto, Citizen Science Apps, Hallmarks of Cancer, Off-Label Ketamine Use, and more.
“Miriam has been reading science fiction again. That and Scientific American.” says a character of “Entropy”, an early Thomas Pynchon story, published in the collection “Slow Learner,” page 90...
Summer of Love at Scientific American
Video of the Week #109, September 11th, 2013: From: Mosquito Preference and Erotic Vomit! Best of the Blogs for August is Live by Carin Bondar at PsiVid.
The Incredible Beauty of a Blown Out Candle
Image of the Week #108, September 11th, 2013: From: Waxbows: The Incredible Beauty of a Blown Out Candle by Kyle Hill at But Not Simpler. Source: Grover Schrayer With video so widely available, why would anyone choose to make still image?...
Zen in the Art of Citizen Science: Apps for Collective Discovery and the 1 Percent Rule of the Web
When it comes to online participation in collective endeavors, 99% of us typically take a free ride. From Wikipedia and YouTube to simple forum discussions, there is a persistent pattern known as the 90-9-1 principle...
#SciAmBlogs Tuesday – cuddly pandas, cuddling lions, LHC anniversary, data-sharing, Tea Box Ghost, and more
- Andrew Jonathan Balmer – Why We Don’t Need Pandas - Harry Cliff and Rupert Cole – LHC celebrates five years of not destroying the world - Karen Stollznow – Perception and the Paranormal: The Tea Box Ghost - Jason G...
Did United States Overreact to 9/11 Terror Attacks?
A year ago, on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks by Al Qaeda on the United States, I argued that the U.S. overreacted to these horrific acts of terrorism.
Update to Boston Review Forum on GMOs
Doug Gurian-Sherman at the Union of Concerned scientists wrote me a polite email yesterday. He protested that one of the sentences in my response to Margaret Mellon’s response to my recent Boston Review piece on “GMOs”, was “not professional and far from worthy of my typical efforts”...
LHC celebrates five years of not destroying the world
Five years ago, at breakfast time, the world waited anxiously for news from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The first nervy bunch of protons were due to be fired around the European lab’s latest and biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as it kicked into action...
#SciAmBlogs Monday – belly button biodiversity, disease spread simulation, HIV dignity, coccaine vaccine, radioactive spiders, waxbows, newts, and more.
Yes, the Food Week is over, but that does not stop our bloggers from writing fascinating posts on a whole range of other topics! But first check out the new Best of the Blogs video: - Erin C...
Chemical and Engineering News celebrates 90 years: How chemistry has come a long way
Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) which is the flagship magazine of the American Chemical Society and the chemical community is celebrating 90 years of its existence this year, and I can only imagine how perplexed and awestruck its editors from 1923 would have been had they witnessed the state of pure and applied chemistry in [...]..
Chemical and Engineering News celebrates 90 years: How chemistry has come a long way
Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) which is the flagship magazine of the American Chemical Society and the chemical community is celebrating 90 years of its existence this year, and I can only imagine how perplexed and awestruck its editors from 1923 would have been had they witnessed the state of pure and applied chemistry in [...]..
