An ear to the ocean

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:06:29 +0000

The Terra ...

NCBI ROFL: The clinical value of boredom. A procedure for reducing inappropriate sexual interests.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:35 +0000

NCBI ROFL: Suicide and homicide and fluoride.

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:21 +0000

Video: Coral’s Dramatic Yet Slo-Mo Emergence From the Sea Floor

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:05:20 +0000

It’s just a pile of sand–no wait, is that a ...

When the Moon hits your apse in a way-cool time lapse

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:10 +0000

Photographer Maik Thomas posted this time lapse video

It’s a Shark-Eating Shark–Eating–Shark World

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:02:08 +0000

according to a study published in the Journal of Pediatrics in September. Researchers drew on patient records of 453,559 children, collected by poison control centers in the United States between 2001 and 2008. Over that time, the number of er visits due to the swallowing of painkillers jumped 101 percent. Randall Bond, an er doctor and pediatrician at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital who led the study, says the uptick coincides with a dramatic boost in sales of opioid drugs...

Animal Friendships: My cover story for Time magazine

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:42:33 +0000

Solar Panels Sometimes Pit Global Warming Against Local Ecosystems

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:22:08 +0000

Volcano in taupe

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:00:02 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted a cool image of a volcano from ...

The Peking Man, and other lost treasures that science wants back

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:16:05 +0000
New Scientist had a great new feature on nine lost treasures that science ...

The Continent Where Climate Went Haywire

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:00:00 -0500

“The river came up to right where we’re sitting, and the waters were more than two feet deep,” Peter Goodwin tells me in the driveway of his ranch-style house perched on the banks of the Balonne River in St. George, a village of 3,500 in eastern Australia. It is a drizzly Sunday afternoon in April, three months after a devastating flood that drenched a landmass the size of France and Germany combined and isolated the town after the rain-swollen river rose to a record 45 feet.

Agricultural areas like St. George were hardest hit by the relentless rains and overflowing rivers that swamped roads, cut off power lines, washed away vineyards and fruit orchards, drowned thousands of head of cattle and other livestock, and covered homes and everything inside them in thick layers of sediment and mud. Shell-shocked residents are still digging out from under the debris.

“That’s the hard part of the flood—the aftermath,” says Goodwin, 60, a crusty, compactly built man with piercing blue eyes and calloused hands who works as an operations manager for the local municipality and has been staying with his grown daughter while he makes his home habitable again. “You get a lot of help during the flood, but then everyone settles back into their routine. There are a lot of houses down there that are still empty,” he adds, gesturing toward the riverbank. “And they will be for a long time to come”...

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NCBI ROFL: My research involves watching pigs poop out balloons…hey, why are you running away?

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:40 +0000

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An ear to the ocean

NCBI ROFL: The clinical value of boredom. A procedure for reducing inappropriate sexual interests.

NCBI ROFL: Suicide and homicide and fluoride.

Video: Coral’s Dramatic Yet Slo-Mo Emergence From the Sea Floor

When the Moon hits your apse in a way-cool time lapse

It’s a Shark-Eating Shark–Eating–Shark World

Animal Friendships: My cover story for Time magazine

Solar Panels Sometimes Pit Global Warming Against Local Ecosystems

Volcano in taupe

The Peking Man, and other lost treasures that science wants back

The Continent Where Climate Went Haywire

NCBI ROFL: My research involves watching pigs poop out balloons…hey, why are you running away?