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Realpolitik The Ultimate Problemsolver: Computer + Evolution = Genius Computers using evolutionary algorithms are building NASA antennas, solving global warming and entertaining gamers. by 08 July 2008 |
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Health How One Doctor Fights the Grim Spectre of Bleeding to Death Looks like the messy and deadly river of blood that flows from some trauma patients can be staunched. by 19 June 2008 |
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Human Nature Nurture Your Inner Psychic - No Paranormal Powers Required! How everyday mind reading skills help us navigate - or get lost in - the stormy landscape of human interactions by 17 May 2008 |
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Pop Culture Babe Scientists on Film For best results in science, wear short shorts. And be sure your deep intellect is matched by deep cleavage. by 06 May 2008 |
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Human Nature What Ever Happened to Baby Albert? What happens when megalomanaical psychologists are allowed to experiment on babies with no ethical review board. by 18 April 2008 |
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Human Nature The (Real) Sound of Silence Science shows what we all instinctively know: pauses in music speak loudly to the brain. by 18 March 2008 |
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Human Nature Science’s Beef With A Beard All the most illustrious scientists had them. So why are they such bad news in the lab? by 05 March 2008 |
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Pros and Cons of Raw Milk: Part Deux Might prevent allergies, could possibly fight an iota of cancer, but don't expect it to do your taxes or anything by 20 February 2008 |
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Material Science Material Science: Valentine’s day gifts for your lady scientist Showering the science geekette with lovey dovey pretty things has never been easier by 13 February 2008 |
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Columbus’ Sailors Culprit for Syphilis Epidemic Tit for twat: Syphilis in exchange for Smallpox by 07 February 2008 |
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Pop Culture Girl Guides Do Science! Girl Guides Canada has introduced "Physics," "Chemistry," and "Engineering" badges. Stephanie Gower celebrates with her troop. by 31 January 2008 |
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Green & Crunchy Is There Room for Meat in a Green Diet? Admit you're emitting, then adjust what you ingest by 17 January 2008 |
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Green & Crunchy Climate Change Anxiety Disorder: On the street or in my head? As the world warms up, are we sweating it too much? by 16 January 2008 |
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Human Nature Of Stress and Periods Your psychological well being is probably not the key to fertility. by 08 January 2008 |
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Health Raw Milk…clean and healthy? by 18 December 2007 |
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Pop Culture Under the Underground Nerdcore Movement: Meet Baddd Spellah, Kickass Nerdcore Music Producer How Nerdcore's Most Prolific Producer Makes Magic Happen by 05 December 2007 |
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Health The Pros and Cons of Sushi Bursting with happy fats and squirming with paralyzing pathogens, sushi has a little something for everyone. by 28 November 2007 |
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Material Science Material Science: Bathe in Science! Puzzle Science out! Science-inspired objects beckon gift givers... by 21 November 2007 |
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Portraits The Frozen Land of Rubies: Arctic Gem Boom Reaches Greenland Canada's diamonds fast rose to dominate the world market. Are Greenland's rubies next? by 14 November 2007 |
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Funny ha ha Say “Good Boy” to Hypertension A comparative analysis of drugs versus dogs for the treatment of high blood pressure. No really. by 06 November 2007 |
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Human Nature The Calculus of Saying “I Love You” Why you should never date man who knows more math than you. by 13 October 2007 |
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Human Nature Miscarriage Sadly, one more thing to expect when you're expecting by 26 September 2007 |
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Fun with Food Battered to Perfection: The Science of Fish n’ Chips by 23 September 2007 |
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Your Health This (Tasty) Week Advice for a long life: eat dinner as a family, avoid bagged lettuce and stay away from stevia. by 21 September 2007 |
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Green & Crunchy Guiltess Air Travel You don't need to buy carbon offsets, just take in a little perspective by 14 September 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (British) Week An ode to my former home country. by 03 September 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Superficial) Week Advice for a long life: don't get boob implants, keep kids away from McDonald's, don't murder whites, and consider pit lipo by 10 August 2007 |
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Art ‘n Shit Sculpting Toward Truth - What Happens When A Biology Professor Takes Chisel to Stone Some art is cosmic; this art is protoplasmic by 07 August 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Delusional) Week Advice for a long life: smoke cigarettes instead of weed, eat blue corn tortillas, ditch lite beer and go straight for whisky by 03 August 2007 |
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Human Nature Who Needs a Grandpa? The powerful helping hand of grandmothers has shaped human lifespan, but grandfathers were too busy scoring chicks. by 02 August 2007 |
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Creature Feature ‘Slow and Steady’ Does Not Win the Date Conservation biologists turn to DNA tests in hopes of tickling a tortoise's fancy by 30 July 2007 |
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Human Nature The Evolution of the White Mustache Our love of milk goes back thousands of years. But today, does it do a body any more good than bad? by 18 July 2007 |
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Human Nature Funny, I Only Like Him When He’s Upwind Surreptitious odors may be the key to wild and sexy behavior in fruit flies, mice, and people by 16 July 2007 |
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Health Your Health This Economical Week Advice for a long life: be rich, live in a nice 'hood, get health insurance, leave Missouri, and use the trampoline with care. by 13 July 2007 |
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Creature Feature Knockout of the Week: Allergy Molecule Makes You Dumb by 11 July 2007 |
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Pop Culture Battle of the Blabbers A new study shows men and women are equally gabby by 05 July 2007 |
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Fun with Food It Figures: The numbers behind your dinner Food is for math, not eating. by 26 June 2007 |
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Realpolitik WWII Atomic Secrets See the Light of Day Nobelist James Chadwick realized atomic research had dire implications - so he sealed it away for more than 60 years by 21 June 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (No Shit Sherlock) Week Advice for a long life: Don't over-retire, give your doctor the afternoon off and sleep late during the week, too by 15 June 2007 |
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Human Nature Book Club: The Female Brain, by Louann Brizendine Louann Brizendine's book "The Female Brain" frankly pisses Sandra Kiume off. Here's why. by 13 June 2007 |
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Fun with Food How Nintendo Taught Me to Slice and Dice Our reporter pulls a Japanese-style potato salad out of a handheld video game by 11 June 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Sinful) Week Advice for a long pre-afterlife: steer clear of wrath, lust, and sharkfin soup -and get thee to a wine carafe instead by 08 June 2007 |
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Health New Tricks for the Little White Pill Add colon cancer to the list of maladies that aspirin keeps at bay - but how much is too much? by 06 June 2007 |
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Fun with Food Mars Needs Lunchboxes What will Mars astronauts take with them? Pretty much any dish that can reach five years of age and not taste like it by 05 June 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Evil) Week Advice for a long life: check if you Doc is a phony and avoid grease when on ecstacy. by 01 June 2007 |
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Green & Crunchy The Soap-free Green Laundry Revolution Let pollutant-free "eco balls" ricochet your stains away by 30 May 2007 |
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Pop Culture It Figures: What the Numbers Say This Week Inkling brings you the numbers to watch... and why. by 29 May 2007 |
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Creature Feature When the Pursuit of Science Endangers Species What happens when our thirst for knowledge drains some animal populations dry? by 28 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Experienced) Week Advice for a long life: read your proctologist's resume, give birth early in mega-hospitals, and use a daycare with benefits by 25 May 2007 |
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Portraits Q&A: Jill Bolte Taylor The neurobiologist describes how a debilitating stroke gave her the chance to learn a new way of thinking by 24 May 2007 |
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Art ‘n Shit The Artist’s Eyeball A physician looks at impressionist paintings and sees art mixed up with chronic eyeball pathologies by 23 May 2007 |
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Realpolitik Numbers Gone Wild Inkling brings you the numbers to watch... and why. by 22 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Emotional) Week Advice for a long life: quit your thankless job (as U.S. Press Secretary), cheer up granny and mend your broken heart by 18 May 2007 |
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Health Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat? You're not a hopeless dieter, you're a precision evolutionary famine-surviving machine by 17 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Beautiful) Week Advice for a long life: Botox your pits, celebrate your tresses, and read the literature before your circumcision by 11 May 2007 |
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Human Nature This is Your Teenager’s Brain on Drugs Some antidepressants developed for adults can turn dangerous when they're prescribed for the under-24 crowd. Kind of. by 10 May 2007 |
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Portraits Q&A: Jodi Lomask A modern dancer and her troupe turn their attention to science ... and really big trees by 09 May 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Alternative) Week Advice for a long life: Do yoga! Go herbal! Switch hands! Conform! by 02 May 2007 |
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Human Nature On the Origin of Grandmas They pinch your cheeks, knit you sweaters and feed you mountains of mashed potatoes. Is that why you're still alive? by 02 May 2007 |
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Pop Culture Der Schwarm: A Geoscientific Page-Turner German thriller plants one foot firmly in real science - the other gets chewed by clairvoyant, needle-toothed methane worms by 01 May 2007 |
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Green & Crunchy Apple’s Beryllium Cremation Damages Environment? All those cute Apple gadgets are making a dangerous mess in Asian landfills, according to Greenpeace by 01 May 2007 |
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Underwired The Buyer’s Guide to Nanotech New technology allows nanoparticles to dramatically magnify price tags - but what else do they do? Here's your guide by 30 April 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Alcoholic and Obese) Week Advice for a long life: Drink hard, cut the carbs, get migraines and don't believe everything they tell you in Texas by 27 April 2007 |
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Realpolitik Space Race: The Sequel The U.S. won the race to the Moon. Mars is shaping up to be a different story. by 26 April 2007 |
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Green & Crunchy Do Biodegradable Bags Make Disposable Ones OK? A San Francisco law wants zero emissions out of your shopping bag, but ignores how many go into it by 25 April 2007 |
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Fun with Food Have the Good Taste to Quit Smoking Like O.J. and toothpaste, a healthy diet may make cigarettes taste worse – despite Big Tobacco's best efforts by 24 April 2007 |
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Portraits Q&A: Marcia McNutt Marcia McNutt is a superstar in a submersible research vehicle. And she wants to encourage other girls to be just like her by 23 April 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Obvi) Week A special Your Health This Week focuses on news you thought you knew already, but needed major research dollars to be sure about by 20 April 2007 |
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Art ‘n Shit Darwin Fish Design Contest Winner Announced… From an ocean of 165 submissions, five fish clambered onto the terra firma of victory – and one may get to reproduce by 19 April 2007 |
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Creature Feature Calamari colossus We love all things Inky: If they have 10 arms and wrestle whales to the death, so much the better by 18 April 2007 |
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Health The Skinny on Size Zero and the Real Dangers of BMI What does it take to keep the beautiful healthy, and let the healthy be beautiful? by 17 April 2007 |
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Pop Culture Margaret Wertheim: when science and crocheting collide The science writer dishes on the politics of physics and reaching the masses with crocheted coral reefs. by 16 April 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Insanely Stupid and Religious) Week Advice for a long life: fight HIV with God, cut the Vitamin B and keep your babies out of the dorm by 13 April 2007 |
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Creature Feature The World’s Top Five Pygmy Animals It’s not their size that matters but what they do with it by 12 April 2007 |
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Art ‘n Shit Fermented Fashion The mat in the vat came back as a hat – or a dress, or a shirt by 11 April 2007 |
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Pop Culture Why the Metric System Doesn’t Scratch My Inch Valory Thatcher discover just how waffly the metric system really is. by 10 April 2007 |
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Health Your Health This (Caffeinated) Week Advice for a long life: give in to coffee, beware of philosophy and stand clear of your television by 09 April 2007 |
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Pop Culture Evolution’s Bumper Sticker War Against Intelligent Design There's a growing menagerie of creatures and beliefs vying for a place on your car bumper by 05 April 2007 |
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Art ‘n Shit Your Chance to Be an Intelligent Designer Bequeath unto us the next species of Darwin fish, and it could wind up inhabiting bumpers across the nation by 05 April 2007 |
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Human Nature Confessions of a Failed Mathlete Why brains go boom during stressful math tests by 04 April 2007 |
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Pop Culture Sharkwater: Die Hard on the High Seas If you think sharks are creepy, get a load of the people who hunt them by 03 April 2007 |
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Green & Crunchy Recycling for Jesus An eco-friendly evangelist talks about building a Christian groundswell to save the planet by 28 March 2007 |
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Health Your Health this (Teenaged) Week Advice for a long life: talk on the phone, eat some steak at the mall, then talk on the phone and take some fish oil. Whatever by 28 March 2007 |
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Pop Culture Nerds Just Wanna Have Fun Nerds in New York and Boston are taking barroom banter to the next level by 28 March 2007 |
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Pop Culture Hey, You Sank My Plesiosaurus! Creative science games emerge from a tiny Massachusetts company founded by three parents by 28 March 2007 |
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Travel The Big Physics Bus Tour Inside the Nobel prize-winning wide-open spaces of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center by 28 March 2007 |
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Creature Feature An Intelligent Designer on the Cow Our Creator's stream of consciousness while fabricating the cow by 21 March 2007 |
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Space A Truly Stellar Honeymoon George and Loretta Whitesides will get a lot closer to the moon than other, more earthbound honeymooners by 21 March 2007 |
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Health Thanks for All the Lice Times Gorilla friends…without the benefits: Gorilla-human liaisons millions of years ago left us with pubic lice by 21 March 2007 |
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Health Your Health this (Bananas) Week Advice for a long life: put down the shampoo, eat guerrilla bananas and go play some ball by 21 March 2007 |
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Pop Culture Tentacled Tree Hugger Disarms Seventh Graders Once used to decorate fashionable Victorian hats, the endangered tree octopus now helps educate middle schoolers by 14 March 2007 |
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Health Introducing the At-Work Workout Constant, gentle exercise at work - with a healthy dose of procrastination - can keep you trim by 14 March 2007 |
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Health Your Health This Week Advice for a Long Life: Avoid festering babies, stop tanning before you're hooked and never say diet to a teenage girl by 14 March 2007 |
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Portraits Q&A: Vandana Shiva The physicist and ecofeminist talks about the unique ways women scientists can contribute to their fields by 14 March 2007 |
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Funny ha ha A Conversation with Oxygen The atmospheric diva gets real with us about her long career, new skin-care endorsements - and life as a radical by 07 March 2007 |
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Space Have a Little Faith in Physics Is string theory science for the intelligently designed? by 07 March 2007 |
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Health Your Health this Week Advice for a long life: get a flu shot, brush your teeth, investigate your plastic surgeon and don't have sex with boys. by 07 March 2007 |
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Art ‘n Shit Designer Drugs Pairing famous molecules with precious metals, a new crop of jewelers dazzle you with science by 07 March 2007 |
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Pop Culture And The Lovelace Poster Goes To… Seventy girl geeks vied for top honors in our "She's Such A Geek!" Photo Contest. Who was judged geekiest? by 07 March 2007 |
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Travel Putting the “Ew!” in Museum Our reporter went to the Meguro Parasitological Museum and all we got was this tapeworm by 28 February 2007 |
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