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Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs The Intersection Watch Sheril on MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown” with Norah O’Donnell–Discussing the New Years Kiss Happiest New Year 2011 by Sheril Kirshenbaum December 31st , 2010 11:28 AM Tags : celebrate firework fireworks happy new year new years in Culture at the interSeCtion 0 comments RSS feed Trackback Leave a Reply Name required Mail will not be published required Website Your Bloggers Chris Mooney is host of the Point of Inquiry podcast and the author of three books , The Republican War on Science Storm World and Unscientific America For more info see his bio and events Sheril Kirshenbaum is a research
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Here’s the video from MSNBC this morning. My favorite part: When Norah O’Donnell calls our blogger “Sheril ‘Making Out Is Good’ Kirshenbaum.” Heh. Seriously it’s a great segment and Sheril does really well. I cannot figure out right now how to embed the video (technical difficulties) but following the link will play it nicely. If [...]
On my new podcast, I talk to Martin Blaser of New York University about Helicobacter pylori, best known as the microbe that causes ulcers. It’s also an ancient passenger in our stomachs, and has evolved a delicate balance with its human hosts. In fact, Blaser is worried by the disappearance of H. pylori from the [...]
Ready for the final Where In The Universe Challenge of 2010? Take a look and see if you can name where in the Universe this image is from. Give yourself extra points if you can name the spacecraft, telescope or instrument responsible for the image. We provide the image today, but won’t reveal the answer [...]
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With the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera constantly snapping images of the lunar surface, we have been able to see most of the Apollo landing sites with better and better detail. Image editing wizard Nathanial Burton-Bradford has now “3-D-ified” all the landing sites except Apollo 16, and by viewing these images with 3-D glasses (the ones [...]
2010 was packed with interesting, exciting and breakthrough events and discoveries. We asked you to vote on the top 10 stories of the year, and below are the results. Some of you asked how we chose the 17 news stories to pick from and perhaps thought we missed out on some rather important astronomical discoveries [...]
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From our vantage point on Earth, it takes just a half second for the International Space Station to fly across the face of the Moon, so catching a transit is tricky. But award-winning French astrophotographer Theirry Legault captured an amazingly sharp and detailed transit image that makes the ISS look like it is sitting on [...]
I had an article in Sunday’s Washington Post entitled, Sealed with a kiss – and neuroscience. It begins: A kiss at midnight to ring in the new year. That’s what Friday night should bring, right? It’s tradition, compulsion, festive duty. An excuse to make a bold move with someone new, a reason to be anxious [...]
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I’ve been accepting questions about The Science of Kissing and bufferyourlife has asked: hey! I was reading DISCOVER magazine, december issue I think, and they were explaining how humans were actually the only known species to kiss when they showed feelings from one another… and that the only other species that somehow had a similar [...]
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Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Blogs 80beats Omnivorous Neanderthals : Study Says Their Teeth Show Evidence of Eating Plants Devastated Brown Bats Could Earn Endangered Species Protection Why 98.6 Degrees Our Body Temperature Strikes a Perfect Balance Standard human body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit : It’s one of those numbers from grade school science textbooks—like 65 million years since the dinosaur extinction or nine eight planets in the solar system—that just gets stuck in your head . But why should it be that balmy temperature and no other According to a study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine , the 98-degree
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Scientists said on Tuesday they have found the best evidence yet of ice volcanoes on Saturn’s giant moon Titan. Unlike volcanoes on Earth, such a volcano on Titan may spew ice and hydrocarbons instead of molten lava.
The newly identified bacteria, isolated from "rusticles" on the Titanic, could also damage vital underwater installations such as offshore oil and gas pipelines. It may have been an iceberg that sunk the Titanic but it is a bacterium that is slowly destroying its remains on the ocean floor, scientists said today. Microorganisms collected from a "rusticle" – a structure that ...