Showing posts with label not being scared of science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label not being scared of science. Show all posts
04 June 2026

“Expands into a fluffy cloud when microwaved”

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In yesterday’s New Yorker crossword puzzle, clue 27 Down was: Brand-name bath bar that expands into a fluffy cloud when microwaved I’ve a...
18 October 2017

“Comics and Medicine” Coming to MICE, Oct. 21

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The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) is coming up this weekend, and on Saturday I’ll moderate a panel on “Comics and Medicine...
25 September 2014

Crowdsourcing Archeology

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I caught this interesting story from the Guardian earlier in the week. It seems that back in September 1954, some archeologists were ex...
24 February 2014

Dense Thoughts

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Water has the very unusual physical property of expanding as it turns from liquid to solid. Most substances take up less volume as solids th...
11 November 2013

Back Into the Wild with Chromatography Analysis

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Earlier this year Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild , published a follow-up article on the New Yorker website. That book described t...
23 September 2013

Me and the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, 28-29 Sept.

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This weekend brings the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo in Cambridge’s Porter Square, a free show featuring independent and small-...
29 August 2013

A New Angle on Narrative Momentum

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A few days ago, author Gail Gauthier raised the topic of “momentum” as it applies to narrative on her Facebook page. In physics, an objec...
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07 August 2013

Our Cancers, Ourselves

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Today Nature announced an agreement between the National Institutes of Health and the heirs of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cancerou...
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06 August 2013

Why Thompson Oz Books Smell a Little Like Vanilla

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Back in 2009 I wrote fondly about the smell of Ruth Plumly Thompson ’s Oz books , as originally published by Reilly & Lee in the 1920...
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21 June 2013

An Election Doesn’t Even Slow Them Up

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For over a year, the FBI says, a man named Scott Crawford worked on building an X-ray device which he described as “Hiroshima on a light s...
04 June 2013

“I’m going to see that tornado one day.”

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Last week tornado chaser Tim Samaras died chasing a tornado in Oklahoma. The same storm killed his son, twenty-four years old, and a colle...
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30 May 2013

Taking Inspiration and Making It Chittier

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From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography comes this life of Louis Vorow Zborowski , a racing-car maker and driver active in Britai...
01 April 2013

Fooling Ourselves: Are We Hard-Wired for Optimism?

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A while back I read about a couple of studies in medical decision-making by Lucas S. Zier, Douglas B. White, and colleagues. In particular, ...
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16 February 2013

My Gift to the Current Generation of Kids

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Around 1993, as I explained in this posting , I was looking for new science activities for kids that involved soap. I tried microwaving a ba...
04 February 2013

New Light on Mary Ingalls’s Blindness

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CNN reported on a paper in the latest Pediatrics coauthored by Dr. Beth Tarini, which had its genesis in this conversation: “I was in ...
26 January 2013

Fast Food and the Caped Crusader

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I recently read a study in Pediatric Obesity titled “What would Batman eat?: priming children to make healthier fast food choices.” Unfo...
09 January 2013

Oz from Oz

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You’ll be pleased to know you can get this cartoon as a t-shirt from Mike Jacobsen’s Neato Shop . Jacobsen is also the creator of this ...
08 January 2013

Prince Bobo’s Place in Nature

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This is the frontispiece from Thomas Huxley ’s Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863). It shows the skeletons of four apes and a hum...
06 January 2013

When Batman and Robin Went Sci-Fi

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“The Isle That Time Forgot,” from Batman , #10, is one of the first Batman stories that definitely borrowed from science fiction. Earlier ...
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23 October 2012

Finally an Explanation for Dorothy’s Strange Dream

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Caleb Crain alerted me to the existence of this public safety poster from the Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Health Department: Doroth...
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