4- 8 November This week, Cassie started losing toenails. Helen pointed out that women have gone into space for decades. Can they finally start being women? Cameron enumerated the measurable health effects of Open Streets days have — plus unicycles. And conference bikes. Ever wonder where the fear of bugs comes from? No one better to […]
October 28 – November 1 This week, Erik told us to eat the most delicious little bastards in the ocean. Why is the moose population dwindling? Roberta investigated. I wonder if we can ever agree on a single truth without paying the price. Ann showed why looking at the universe only in the optical wavelengths […]
My most recent foray down the internet rabbit hole involves the idea that we are now living in the year 1717, rather than 2013. At some point in deep early time, the theory goes, someone (accidentally on purpose?) tacked 297 years onto the calendar. It’s known as the Phantom Time hypothesis, and it was put […]
21 – 25 October What happens to sperm and egg donors in the era of cut-rate genetic testing? Cassie discovers that anonymous donations come with a cost. A growing class of viral clips — generally misinterpreted as cute or funny — actually shows animals in anger, pain, or sexual arousal, says guest poster Whitney Robles. […]
October 14 – 18 This week. Oh cripes, this week. We’ve been told that the US government shutdown cost more than the NASA budget, and had all kinds of knock-on effects on everything from basic science to public health. But what’s it like on the ground when a city shuts down? Helen gave us the […]
October 7 – 11 This week, another LaWONian did us proud: Michelle is in the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013! In her latest post she finds biologists fretting over a flock of very tiny — and very endangered — sandpiper chicks. Cameron and cursive are not friends. But that doesn’t mean the end […]
September 30 – October 4 This week — on the off chance that you haven’t heard — Christie won the National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Award for last year’s dynamit post about pink ribbon cancer denialism. Cassie sets out to do a story on how Bolivia can have a navy without a […]
23 – 27 September Have you ever wondered what it’s like to attend a wild horse and burro auction? This week, Mary Caperton Morton reports. Christie tried her hardest not to eulogize newsprint. Helen ate whale. Verdict? Underwhelming. “A lot of us hoped that once we had the Internet we might have more information about the […]
