RealClearScience Morning Edition

Monday, May 20
Consumers: Please Don't Start Eating Healthy - Patrick Mustain, SciAm
Governments Can Learn from a Singing Spaceman - Jeffrey Kluger, Time
Europe's Austerity Drives Out Talented Scientists - Marc Herman, PSMag
Moving Towards a Deep Sea Mining 'Gold Rush' - David Shukman, BBC
Scary Phenomenon Makes Your Jaw Glow Green - Esther Inglis-Arkell, io9
How Glass 'Remembers' What Hit It - Sophie Bushwick, Inside Science
Honeybees Trained to Find Land Mines - D. Stojanovic & D. Bandic, AP
Does Prozac Help Artists Be Creative? - Alex Preston, The Guardian
Einstein's Greatest Blunder Was a Big One - Ethan Siegel, ScienceBlogs
Richard Feynman's Racy Sketches - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
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Saturday, May 18
How Much Would It Cost to Build the Enterprise? - Eric Limer, Gizmodo
Digital Life May Be Right Around the Corner - Alexis Madrigal, Atlantic
When Will We Upload the Mind to a Computer? - Eric Niiler, D-News
Energy-Storing Nanomaterial Made From Hemp - Katherine Bourzac, CEN
A Psychedelic Trip That Doesn't End - Dorian Rolston, The New Yorker
The New DSM-5 Is Not Crazy - Maria W. Deibler, Slate
Did Dinosaur Dads Look After the Kids? - Colin Barras, NewScientist
Remember, Evolution Is Far From Perfect - Carl Zimmer, Phenomena
Angelina Jolie's Choice Is Not the Only One - Mark Robson, Huffington Post
What if Yellowstone's Supervolcano Erupts? - Annalee Newitz, io9
Friday, May 17
Young Blood Rejuvenates Aging Hearts - Paul Gabrielsen, Science Now
Is Retirement Actually Harmful to Your Health? - BBC News
How Humans Will Evolve over One Million Years - Annalee Newitz, io9
Insects Could Crush Humans Like Bugs - Oliver Mortin, Intelligent Life
The Endangered Species Act Is Broken - Matt Kettmann , Smithsonian
Invasive Ladybugs Carry Biological Weapon - Ed Yong, Nature News
How Did Mustard Gas End Up in Northeast Clams? - Para Sight, DSN
Teen Chemist Won't Be Charged with Felony - M. Koerth-Baker, BoiBoing
Hog Farms' Strange, Exploding Poop Foam - Tom Philpott, Mother Jones
You Won't Win Saturday's Powerball. Sorry. - Ron Wasserstein, HuffPo
Newton Blog: Eyewitness Testimony Is Failing Our Judicial System
Thursday, May 16
21st Century Snake Oil: Stem Cell Cosmetics - Alex Berezow, USA Today
The Deadly Fungus Frogs Brought from Africa - Chris Gorski, ISNS
Can Game Theory Explain Cancer Growth? - MIT Technology Review
Where Supersymmetry Belongs: In a Coffin - Ethan Siegel, SWaB!
High Energy Neutrinos from Outer Space Detected - Jason Palmer, BBC
The Powerful Winds of Uranus, Neptune - Matthew Francis, Ars Technica
There's a 97% Consensus on Global Warming - John Cook, Skeptical Sci.
How We Can Save Our Oceans' Fish - Gary Libecap, Defining Ideas
Fossils Help Fill 10M-Yr Gap in Human Evolution - Chris Palmer, Nature
Need a Placebo Pill? There's an App for That - Adrianne Jeffries, Verge
Wednesday, May 15
Monsanto: More Saint than Sinner - Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience
On Fracking, Nobody Wants to Compromise - Hank Campbell, Science 2.0
IPCC Was Right: Sea Level to Rise 2 Ft. by 2100 - Andy Coghlan, NewSci.
Sea Butterflies: Ocean's Canary in Coal Mine - Hannah Waters, S'sonian
3D Imaging: From Caterpillar to Butterfly - Kate Yandell, The Scientist
Why Do We Hate Sound of Nails on Chalkboard? - Sari Soffer, PopSci
Women's Immune Systems Hold Key to Long Life? - Rich Gray, Telegraph
Warble Fly Larvae Can Grow in Your Face, Eyes - Asle Ronning, SciNordic
Portland: 48% Oppose Fluoride in Drinking Water - Ian Parker, KATU
2300-Year-Old Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed - M. Stevenson & P. Jones, AP
Tuesday, May 14
Why I Had a Double Mastectomy - Angelina Jolie, New York Times
Supremes Rule 9-0 Against Stealing from Monsanto - Joe Mullin, AT
Algorithm Successfully Predicts Earthquakes - Annalee Newitz, Wired
Where Does Earthquake's Energy Come From? - Ethan Siegel, SWaB!
Saturn Is Shaking Its Rings - Ken Croswell, Scientific American
Infinitely Many Prime Numbers Come in Pairs - Maggie McKee, Nature
Can Alligators Help Us Re-Grow Teeth? - Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
Why You Should Never Give Honey to a Baby - James Hamblin, Atlantic
Brain Buster: Frontal Lobe Myth Debunked - Clare Pain, ABC Science
Our Dreams Influence How We Treat Others - George Dvorsky, io9
Newton Blog: How Can Physicists Measure an Atom's Nucleus?
Monday, May 13
How to Spot a Murderer's Brain - Tim Adams, The Guardian
Who're You Calling a Neanderthal? - David Frayer, New York Times
Scientists Declare Your Pet to Be Conscious - Jennifer Ouellette, Nautilus
Dear Psychology, College Students Are WEIRD - Bethany Brookshire, Slate
Coronavirus Likely Passing Person-to-Person - Angus McDowall, Reuters
The Problem with Dissections in Science Class - Rob Dunn, Sci American
The Most Meaningless Study? - Christie Aschwanden, Last Word on Nothing
New 'Superwheat' May Boost Yields by 30% - BBC News
Cryopreservation Is Partly Science, Mostly Faith - Stephen Cave, Aeon
Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet - Jimmy Stamp, Smithsonian
Newton Blog: Why Conan O'Brien Is Likelier to Get Skin Cancer
Saturday, May 11
Facial Database Hidden in Immigration Reform - David Kravets, Wired
Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Dangerous Milestone - Richard Harris, NPR
A Solar Eclipse Unlike Any You've Ever Seen - Robert Gonzalez, io9
The Mathematics of Juggling - Jennifer Ouellette, Simons Science News
Capitalism Kills Morality, But So Does Socialism - Science 2.0
No, Skeptics Don't Give Religion a Pass - Daniel Loxton, Skeptic Blog
How a Virus Hid in Our Genome for 6 Million Years - Carl Zimmer, Phen
Mothers Are Soldiers - Shawnee Barton, The Atlantic
How Motherhood Makes You Smarter - Megan Gambino, Smithsonian
Scientific Marriage Tips from the Kardashians - M. Tannenbaum, SciAm
RealClearScience Feature: Weird Stuff Blamed on Climate Change
Friday, May 10
Dear Colonizers, Dust on Mars Can Kill You - Ian O'Neill, Discovery News
Fireproof Materials Ignite in Space - Carl Franzen, The Verge
Water on Moon Probably Came from Earth - Joseph Stromberg, S'sonian
Body Odor Robots Detect Smelly Feet, Breath - Leo Kelion, BBC News
Huge Whale Die-Off Puzzles Scientists - Megan Gannon, Live Science
How Much Is a Mouse's Life Worth to You? - John Timmer, Ars Technica
Why Do Twins Develop Different Personalities? - Joseph Bennington, io9
Your Unique Heartbeat Could Be a Passcode - Babbage, The Economist
Good Scientists Don't Think Like Lawyers - Michael Gazzaniga, Big Think
Tycho Brahe's Psychic Dwarf & Drunk Moose - Mark Mancini, Ment. Floss
Newton Blog: Dinosaurs on Venus: A Lesson in Logic

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