Data
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Saturn’s Strange Children
October 21, 2009
Spacecraft observations of giant tenuous rings, two-toned moons, and methane fogs are showing Saturn’s moons to be even more alien than previously believed.
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Our Shifting Urban Landscape
October 06, 2009
Urban ecologist James Danoff-Burg takes us into the field to demonstrate the tools of analyzing the biodiversity of human-altered ecosystems.
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Richard Dawkins Seeks Converts
September 22, 2009
In his new book, Richard Dawkins sets out to convince the unconvinced that evolution is true. Will he succeed?
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Not Just for Fence-Sitters
September 22, 2009
Dawkins’ new book, The Greatest Show on Earth, demonstrates the power of storytelling in communicating evolution’s biological evidence.
bias, data, featured blogger, public perception, theory, truth
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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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Acupuncture: Real or Sham?
September 02, 2009
Controls for acupuncture studies are improving. Their results are not. How are peer reviewers reacting?
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Because E=mc2
August 25, 2009
On the beauty and significance of the world’s most oft-cited but less oft-understood equation.
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Immortal Information
June 15, 2009
A new nanoscale storage device could preserve all the digital information you want, for as long as you want—and longer.
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The Long Shot
May 19, 2009
Two rival scientific teams are locked in a high-stakes race to discover other Earth-like worlds—and forever change our own.
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Why We’re Not Obsolete
May 12, 2009
As scientific data accumulates, volume can overwhelm understanding. A new Cornell computer program is using the technological advances that created this data-understanding problem to help solve it.
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The Tricorder Arrives
May 01, 2009
Cell phones will soon be able to sense our environment and its pollutants. This new power may change the way we move through the world, but can it motivate us to change it?
data, information, innovation, networks, systems, technology
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Ear to the Ground
April 22, 2009
Natural quiet is a rapidly disappearing resource. But if you travel far enough, and listen carefully, you can still find it.
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Week in Review: April 17
April 17, 2009
The EPA’s carbon dioxide mission, cutbacks in science funding in the UK and Ireland, thoughts on the AlloSphere, and John Maddox, RIP.
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The Harsh Realities of Energy
April 07, 2009
There is no faster, easier fix for America’s energy crisis than to simply begin living within rational limits.
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Building the Taxonomy of Life
March 23, 2009
The presumption was that you’d need experts to write pages, and we’d end up with 2 million or so. I was absolutely clear from the start that that wasn’t going to work.
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Getting Past the Pie Chart
February 18, 2009
Understanding the shortcomings of the pie chart can help us make sense of and improve the emerging scientific aesthetic of the 21st century.
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Excitement and Caution at AAAS
February 17, 2009
Thousands gather in Chicago for the world's largest scientific conference.
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Group Think
December 22, 2008
A Tel Aviv University professor melds math and sociology of the Internet to predict the next big thing in music.
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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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Boxing with Shadows
October 15, 2008
The real marvel of the LHC is that, in a litter of subatomic debris, scientists know exactly what to look for.
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World
Sad Sacks
As a UK adviser is fired over politically unpalatable advice and an English teacher is suspended over an article about animal sexuality, the fate of facts is on the line.
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Ideas
Sweet Obesity
As obesity rates soar, Americans are consuming more low-calorie artificial sweeteners. But do artificial sweeteners actually help people lose weight?
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Books
Books to Read Now
November releases feature the mysteries of Grigori Perelman, the evolutionary origins of reading, and strategies for containing strains of flu.
