Author: Joe Kloc
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Long Time Coming
March 26, 2010
The story of one of history's most infamous math problems illustrates the difficulties facing congress in the wake of healthcare reform.
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Yellow, Black, and Blues
February 15, 2010
A look at our agricultural past may explain why honey bees around the world began disappearing three years ago.
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The Wagnerian Method
January 04, 2010
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Winds of Change
December 21, 2009
The stories we tell provide us with a record of our continuing struggle to understand the peculiar effects weather has on our lives.
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Into the Uncanny Valley
November 16, 2009
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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Blueprinting Biology
September 28, 2009
Scientists develop a visual language for mapping biological systems that they hope will become “the circuit diagrams of biology.”
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The Evolution of Evolution
September 10, 2009
Ben Fry has created a tool that allows you to watch the theory of evolution evolve. Here, he introduces us to his amazing exploration of scientific thought.
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How to Build a Better Tree of Life
July 01, 2009
An unconventional approach to analyzing molecular sequences allows researchers to construct larger evolutionary trees.
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Invoking the Magic of the Mind
June 25, 2009
Are secrets of the evolution of the mind to be found by imagining the ancestors of tool-wielding crows, or is such an approach strictly for the birds?
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The Parasite Puzzle
April 27, 2009
How one of Africa’s deadliest pathogens uses on-the-fly, genetic costume changes to outsmart our immune system.
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Automatic for the People
April 02, 2009
A team of British researchers take a robotic approach in rethinking the hypothetico-deductive method.
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Mikhail Gromov Wins Abel Prize
March 26, 2009
Russian-French mathematician wins the Abel Prize for his revolutionary contributions to geometry.
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The Living Robot
March 26, 2009
Researchers have developed a robot capable of learning and interacting with the world using a biological brain.
complexity, engineering, networks, neuroscience, robotics, technology
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A Hormone to Remember
February 17, 2009
Oxytocin emerges as a key player in our facility for social memory.
cognition, disease, enhancement, medicine, neuroscience, research
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Seeing in the Dark
January 14, 2009
A blind man shocks researchers with what he sees.
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The Damnedest Lies
October 30, 2008
The success of fivethirtyeight.com is a credit not only to statistical prowess but also to keen intuition about social habits.
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
