Science

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  • Environment (32)
  • Medicine (114)
  • Nature (69)
  • Space (8)
  • Thursday, May 17
    / / May 2005

    For a half-century fires have burned under Centralia, PA.


    Wednesday, May 16

    On the final two holdouts in Treece, Kansas, a former mining town that is soon to be wiped off the maps.


    Saturday, May 12

    New research on children’s behavior.

    The idea that a young child could have psychopathic tendencies remains controversial among psychologists. Laurence Steinberg, a psychologist at Temple University, has argued that psychopathy, like other personality disorders, is almost impossible to diagnose accurately in children, or even in teenagers — both because their brains are still developing and because normal behavior at these ages can be misinterpreted as psychopathic.


    Monday, May 7
    / / Oct 2001
    via @magicmolly

    Is creativity in our genes? A self-made scholar’s search for the answer.


    On geoengineering, a high risk/high reward fix for global warming.


    Thursday, May 3
    / / Mar 2011

    The story of former Vikings linebacker Fred McNeill and the lasting impact of his concussions.


    Monday, April 30
    / / Aug 2007

    From prison, a member of the Earth Liberation Front tells her story.


    via @timhollinger

    In 1981, Randall Smith murdered two hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Twenty-seven years later, he tried to do it again.

    Saturday, April 28
    / / Apr 2012

    Competing teams, some powered by billionaires and some by open-sourced code and volunteers, race to land a robot on the surface and claim a massive prize from Google.


    Wednesday, April 25

    A sociobiologist on how we evolved into artists.


    Tuesday, April 24

    Yearning for conception.


    Monday, April 23
    / / Apr 2012

    Enbridge, Inc. spilled more than a million gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River. Was John Bolenbaugh fired for refusing to cover this up?