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Crescat Graffiti, Take 2 Art ‘n Shit
Crescat Graffiti, Take 2
Quinn Dombrowski, student scrawl-chronicler extraordinaire, revisits her graffiti analysis: This time, with even more science!
by Quinn Dombrowski

This Has All Happened Before, and It Will All Happen Again: Mitochondrial Eve Comes of Age History of Science
This Has All Happened Before, and It Will All Happen Again: Mitochondrial Eve Comes of Age
A look back at the science that taught us where—or who—we came from.
by Anne Holden

From Gyroscopes to Gecko Glue: An Inventor’s Guide to Loving Life Portraits
From Gyroscopes to Gecko Glue: An Inventor’s Guide to Loving Life
Meet Kimberly Turner, a fashion plate, competitive cyclist, and dog trainer...who also happens to be an engineer.
by Cameron Walker

Projectile Poop: Why Some Caterpillars Go Ballistic(ally) Creature Feature
Projectile Poop: Why Some Caterpillars Go Ballistic(ally)
Scientists answer the age-old question: Why do certain species of caterpillar fling their poop far and wide?
by Meera Lee Sethi

Don’t Call it a Comeback: Creationism Evolves History of Science
Don’t Call it a Comeback: Creationism Evolves
The final piece in a three-part series tackling the history of U.S. anti-evolutionary sentiment.
by Anne Holden

Of Monkeys and Men: The Trial(s) of the Century History of Science
Of Monkeys and Men: The Trial(s) of the Century
The second in a three-part series tackling the history of U.S. anti-evolutionary sentiment.
by Anne Holden

Thy Will Be Done, Again and Again: The “Evolution” of Creationism in America History of Science
Thy Will Be Done, Again and Again: The “Evolution” of Creationism in America
The first in a three-part series tackling the history of U.S. anti-evolutionary sentiment.
by Anne Holden

Adventures Among Ants: What Marauders and Amazons Teach Us About Being Human
Adventures Among Ants: What Marauders and Amazons Teach Us About Being Human
Rachel Zurer reviews a new myrmecological tome by Mark Moffett.
by Rachel Zurer

The Tippling Woodpecker History of Science
The Tippling Woodpecker
A 1911 nature study guide waxes lyrical about the yellow-bellied sapsucker's alcoholism.
by Meera Lee Sethi

Q&A: Grace White Art ‘n Shit
Q&A: Grace White
A Paper Whisperer Explains Why Your Love Letters Hate Your Fingers
by Meera Lee Sethi

Not Right in the Head: An Escalating List of Traumatic Brain Injuries Health
Not Right in the Head: An Escalating List of Traumatic Brain Injuries
In which we discover an amazing array of objects that have accidentally penetrated people's skulls and failed to kill them.
by Meera Lee Sethi

Mad or Machine? Human Nature
Mad or Machine?
How Modern Technology Shapes and Mirrors Delusional Beliefs
by Meera Lee Sethi

If I May Be So BOLD: How Charisma Can Make You Hand Over Your Brain Human Nature
If I May Be So BOLD: How Charisma Can Make You Hand Over Your Brain
Who would you let take over your thoughts?
by Meera Lee Sethi

Will We Fry Like Bacon When the Poles Flip? Material Science
Will We Fry Like Bacon When the Poles Flip?
Are Earth’s magnetic fields set to reverse? And will life as we know it be pooched when that happens?
by Anne Casselman

Do Be So Sentimental Human Nature
Do Be So Sentimental
Studies show that nostalgia has powerful evolutionary functions.
by Meera Lee Sethi

Please Pass the Astragalus Pop Culture
Please Pass the Astragalus
Inkling tackles the science behind a new science-fiction novel.
by Anya Weber

Q&A: Diana Sudyka Art ‘n Shit
Q&A: Diana Sudyka
A conversation about birds, art, science, and history.
by Meera Lee Sethi

More Valentine’s Gifts for Scientist-Types Material Science
More Valentine’s Gifts for Scientist-Types
10 + 1 Ideas For Nerdy Romantics
by Meera Lee Sethi

Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur Human Nature
Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur
Being a Statistical Analysis of Graffiti Found at the University of Chicago Library
by Quinn Dombrowski

Women’s Fliberation Human Nature
Women’s Fliberation
Will Big Pharma's female libido-booster Flibanserin enliven ailing sex lives—or handcuff women to another daily pill?
by Tania Rabesandratana

Book Club: The Happiness Project Pop Culture
Book Club: The Happiness Project
What do you see if you put your own happiness under the microscope? Gretchen Rubin lets us know as she chases the bluebird.
by Anya Weber

Q&A: Phillip Chee Portraits
Q&A: Phillip Chee
A dedicated astrophotographer explains how he opens up the skies.
by Meera Lee Sethi

Lessons from the Sea Squirt Creature Feature
Lessons from the Sea Squirt
Still trying to "find yourself"? If the sea squirt can do it, so can you.
by Meera Lee Sethi

Prosthetic Memory: A Camera That Gives Back Lost Moments Underwired
Prosthetic Memory: A Camera That Gives Back Lost Moments
Observation changes even the smallest of observed particles. Can it change moments and memories, too?
by Meera Lee Sethi

Slippery Negotiations in a Banana Republic Creature Feature
Slippery Negotiations in a Banana Republic
Apes do negotiate—just not, apparently, with Ronald Reagan.
by Dan Strain

The Ecological Consequences of Vampirism Pop Culture
The Ecological Consequences of Vampirism
AKA, Wherein an Ecologist takes down New Moon
by Isla Myers-Smith

Sheep Poo Paper: Saves Trees, Fertilizes Crops, Revives Dying Epistolary Art Green & Crunchy
Sheep Poo Paper: Saves Trees, Fertilizes Crops, Revives Dying Epistolary Art
With a product name like this, YOU CANNOT FAIL.
by Meera Lee Sethi

The Secret Life of Bed Bugs Creature Feature
The Secret Life of Bed Bugs
Think Sex in the City is wicked? It doesn't hold a candle to the kinky things bed bugs get up to.
by Meera Lee Sethi

Turning a Blind Eye to Blindness Human Nature
Turning a Blind Eye to Blindness
The damage to their visual cortex means there's no way these patients can see. Why do they deny they're blind?
by Meera Lee Sethi

The Promise and Perils of Brain Massage Human Nature
The Promise and Perils of Brain Massage
Deep brain stimulation offers hope to many patients, but changing the brain’s signals can have unintended effects.
by Meera Lee Sethi

Raising the (Apparently) Dead Health
Raising the (Apparently) Dead
A partial and eclectic history of resuscitation techniques.
by Meera Lee Sethi

Stress Everlasting: The Cautionary Tale of Stressed-Out Bunnies Health
Stress Everlasting: The Cautionary Tale of Stressed-Out Bunnies
Could the seminal life cycle of snowshoe hares be explained by shell shock?
by Momoko Price

The Kinda Food Where Greens Are Always Tastier Green & Crunchy
The Kinda Food Where Greens Are Always Tastier
Green cuisine goes a long way for your belly and the environment.
by Karinna Sjo-Gaber

The Ultimate Problemsolver: Computer + Evolution = Genius Realpolitik
The Ultimate Problemsolver: Computer + Evolution = Genius
Computers using evolutionary algorithms are building NASA antennas, solving global warming and entertaining gamers.
by Elan Dubrofsky

How One Doctor Fights the Grim Spectre of Bleeding to Death 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 Lucas Rizoli

Nurture Your Inner Psychic - No Paranormal Powers Required! 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 Meera Lee Sethi

Babe Scientists on Film 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 Sarah Fobes

What Ever Happened to Baby Albert? 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 Bryn Robinson

The (Real) Sound of Silence Human Nature
The (Real) Sound of Silence
Science shows what we all instinctively know: pauses in music speak loudly to the brain.
by Meera Lee Sethi

Science’s Beef With A Beard 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 Anne Casselman

Pros and Cons of Raw Milk: Part Deux
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 Anna Gosline

Material Science: Valentine’s day gifts for your lady scientist 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 Anne Casselman

Columbus’ Sailors Culprit for Syphilis Epidemic
Columbus’ Sailors Culprit for Syphilis Epidemic
Tit for twat: Syphilis in exchange for Smallpox
by Anne Holden

Girl Guides Do Science! Pop Culture
Girl Guides Do Science!
Girl Guides Canada has introduced "Physics," "Chemistry," and "Engineering" badges. Stephanie Gower celebrates with her troop.
by Stephanie Gower

Is There Room for Meat in a Green Diet? Green & Crunchy
Is There Room for Meat in a Green Diet?
Admit you're emitting, then adjust what you ingest
by Melinda Wenner

Climate Change Anxiety Disorder: On the street or in my head? 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 Anne Casselman

Of Stress and Periods Human Nature
Of Stress and Periods
Your psychological well being is probably not the key to fertility.
by Anne Holden

Raw Milk…clean and healthy? Health
Raw Milk…clean and healthy?
by Anna Gosline

Under the Underground Nerdcore Movement: Meet Baddd Spellah, Kickass Nerdcore Music Producer Pop Culture
Under the Underground Nerdcore Movement: Meet Baddd Spellah, Kickass Nerdcore Music Producer
How Nerdcore's Most Prolific Producer Makes Magic Happen
by Anne Casselman

The Pros and Cons of Sushi Health
The Pros and Cons of Sushi
Bursting with happy fats and squirming with paralyzing pathogens, sushi has a little something for everyone.
by Anna Gosline

Material Science: Bathe in Science! Puzzle Science out! Material Science
Material Science: Bathe in Science! Puzzle Science out!
Science-inspired objects beckon gift givers...
by Anne Casselman

The Frozen Land of Rubies: Arctic Gem Boom Reaches Greenland 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 Anne Casselman

Say “Good Boy” to Hypertension 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 Janice Arenofsky

The Calculus of Saying “I Love You” Human Nature
The Calculus of Saying “I Love You”
Why you should never date man who knows more math than you.
by Anna Gosline

Miscarriage Human Nature
Miscarriage
Sadly, one more thing to expect when you're expecting
by Heather K. Allen

Battered to Perfection: The Science of Fish n’ Chips Fun with Food
Battered to Perfection: The Science of Fish n’ Chips
by Lisa Richards

Your Health This (Tasty) Week
Your Health This (Tasty) Week
Advice for a long life: eat dinner as a family, avoid bagged lettuce and stay away from stevia.
by Anna Gosline

Guiltess Air Travel Green & Crunchy
Guiltess Air Travel
You don't need to buy carbon offsets, just take in a little perspective
by James Griffiths

Your Health This (British) Week Health
Your Health This (British) Week
An ode to my former home country.
by Anna Gosline

Your Health This (Superficial) Week 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 Anna Gosline

Sculpting Toward Truth - What Happens When A Biology Professor Takes Chisel to Stone 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 Melissa Grover

Your Health This (Delusional) Week 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 Anna Gosline

Who Needs a Grandpa? Human Nature
Who Needs a Grandpa?
The powerful helping hand of grandmothers has shaped human lifespan, but grandfathers were too busy scoring chicks.
by Anne Holden

‘Slow and Steady’ Does Not Win the Date 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 James Griffiths

The Evolution of the White Mustache 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 Megha Satyanarayana

Funny, I Only Like Him When He’s Upwind 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 Anne Holden

Your Health This Economical Week 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 Anna Gosline

Knockout of the Week: Allergy Molecule Makes You Dumb Creature Feature
Knockout of the Week: Allergy Molecule Makes You Dumb
by Anna Gosline

Battle of the Blabbers Pop Culture
Battle of the Blabbers
A new study shows men and women are equally gabby
by Anne Casselman

It Figures: The numbers behind your dinner Fun with Food
It Figures: The numbers behind your dinner
Food is for math, not eating.
by Anne Casselman

WWII Atomic Secrets See the Light of Day 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 Richard Wyllie

Your Health This (No Shit Sherlock) Week 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 Anne Casselman

Book Club: The Female Brain, by Louann Brizendine 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 Sandra Kiume

How Nintendo Taught Me to Slice and Dice 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 Paula Gaetos

Your Health This (Sinful) Week 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 Anna Gosline

New Tricks for the Little White Pill 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 Jennifer Taylor

Mars Needs Lunchboxes 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 Anne Casselman

Your Health This (Evil) Week 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 Anne Casselman

The Soap-free Green Laundry Revolution Green & Crunchy
The Soap-free Green Laundry Revolution
Let pollutant-free "eco balls" ricochet your stains away
by Tania Rabesandratana

It Figures: What the Numbers Say This Week Pop Culture
It Figures: What the Numbers Say This Week
Inkling brings you the numbers to watch... and why.
by Anna Gosline

When the Pursuit of Science Endangers Species Creature Feature
When the Pursuit of Science Endangers Species
What happens when our thirst for knowledge drains some animal populations dry?
by Katie Law

Your Health This (Experienced) Week 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 Anna Gosline

Q&A: Jill Bolte Taylor 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 Sandra Kiume

The Artist’s Eyeball Art ‘n Shit
The Artist’s Eyeball
A physician looks at impressionist paintings and sees art mixed up with chronic eyeball pathologies
by Megha Satyanarayana

Numbers Gone Wild Realpolitik
Numbers Gone Wild
Inkling brings you the numbers to watch... and why.
by Anna Gosline

Your Health This (Emotional) Week 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 Anna Gosline

Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat? Health
Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat?
You're not a hopeless dieter, you're a precision evolutionary famine-surviving machine
by Mason Inman

Your Health This (Beautiful) Week 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 Anna Gosline

This is Your Teenager’s Brain on Drugs 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 Jennifer Taylor

Q&A: Jodi Lomask Portraits
Q&A: Jodi Lomask
A modern dancer and her troupe turn their attention to science ... and really big trees
by Anne Casselman

Your Health This (Alternative) Week Health
Your Health This (Alternative) Week
Advice for a long life: Do yoga! Go herbal! Switch hands! Conform!
by Anna Gosline

On the Origin of Grandmas 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 Anne Holden

Der Schwarm: A Geoscientific Page-Turner 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 Ele Willoughby

Apple’s Beryllium Cremation Damages Environment? 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 Paula Gaetos

The Buyer’s Guide to Nanotech 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 Kristin Abkemeier

Your Health This (Alcoholic and Obese) Week 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 Anna Gosline

Space Race: The Sequel Realpolitik
Space Race: The Sequel
The U.S. won the race to the Moon. Mars is shaping up to be a different story.
by Richard Wyllie

Do Biodegradable Bags Make Disposable Ones OK? 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 Eva Amsen

Have the Good Taste to Quit Smoking 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 Jennifer Taylor

Q&A: Marcia McNutt 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 Megan Mansell Williams