Bob CollinsThe area surrounding their home in China has been decimated by pollution.
So they started planting trees. One tree at a time. So far, they’ve planted 10,000 trees. Read more →
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After three successful attempts to land a booster rocket on an ocean barge — to be used again later — it exploded on a fourth attempt by SpaceX today. Read more →
It’s been a pretty rough spring for the most famous eagles in America. The Decorah, Iowa webcam this spring has documented nature’s dirty little secret: there’s a lot of dying going on. Read more →
What makes neurology so exciting? These small amounts of research and a neuroscientist who wonders ‘what if?’ Read more →
If you drive around with a penny in your mouth, you’re probably too drunk to drive. And you’re probably not a science major. Read more →
Three giants of neurology will be talking about the mystery in our head, but one guest’s story of how she ended up in a position to be the human who solved the cause of a horrific neurological disease is worth particular attention. It’s also a story that should frame the various debates over immigration. Read more →
Last Sunday, science writer John Horgan gave a speech to the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, the name of which should give you a clue about what happened.
The skeptics weren’t happy.
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Granted, knowing more about how our brains work isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. The $51,326 that was spent on it could’ve been better spent somewhere else.
On the other hand, that’s less than a third of what we pay United States senators and we’re learning more about how neurological circuitry from drunk finches than sober politicians. Read more →
The best part about having a Wisconsin lad in the International Space Station is we’re getting more photographs of flyover country. Read more →
In this growing age of artificial intelligence, a good question might be whose jobs won’t be taken by a machine?
News writers? You’re in the crosshairs of your new overlords.
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This is the proper technique for releasing an eagle back to the wild.
Eyes to the sky. Feet wide apart. Tongue out. Read more →
We like nature as long as nature is pretty and cuddly and cute. But, let me tell you, it’s an eagle-eat-cat world out there and that’s upsetting people, apparently.
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Keep this in mind the next time you go watch the big waves: Some of the disasters the researchers cited were tsunami waves sweeping people into the lake from their onshore perches.
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For those of us of a certain age who grew up watching the likes of Jules Bergman and Frank McGee and Walter Cronkite covering space missions with plastic models to describe what was happening, today’s SpaceX launch was a reconfirmation that we live in interesting times. Read more →
The various videos of disastrous failures to land a rocket have been pretty entertaining. But they pale in comparison to the ones that succeed.
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