Monthly Archives: December 2010
another top ten list
Sarah Zielinski, the Surprising Science blogger at Smithsonian, has put up the list of her 10 favorite Smithsonian science stories from this year. And one is mine!
year in review
The folks over at ScienceNOW have compiled a list of their top 10 stories of 2010 – and I wrote two of them! See if you can remember which ones: Top 10 ScienceNOWs of 2010 (The items link to the … Continue reading
apropos of nothing
The Macy’s near Union Square in San Francisco has kittens in its display windows at Christmas time. It’s an ASPCA fundraiser or something. Whatever. KITTENS. I prefer kittens on the other side of glass, where they can’t make me sneeze.
museum tourist: missed opportunity edition
This week I’ve been in San Francisco for the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting – a highly successful event, not least because I kept running into friends from college I hadn’t seen in eight to 12 years. (My college produced … Continue reading
chimp poop
Male chimps compete to set up dominance hierarchies. The males on top – the alphas and other high-ranking males – get the most access to females. Wednesday for ScienceNOW I wrote about a study on what this means for their … Continue reading
the astronomer so nice, they’ve dug him up twice
At the beginning of Thanksgiving week, a group of scientists were gathering in Prague to do something a little odder than buying a turkey: exhuming a 15th-century astronomer. The astronomer was Tycho Brahe. He was a weird guy. He lost … Continue reading