RealClearScience Week of October 17, 2011 Archives

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Monday, October 17
When Will the 7 Billionth Person Be Born?
Fred Pearce NewScientist
DNA Sequenced of 115-Year-Old Woman
Helen Briggs BBC News
Single-Sex School Ban: Science or Activism?
Christina Sommers USAT
E. O. Wilson Shakes Up Evolutionary Biology
Howard French Atlantic
Magicians Teach Neuroscientists New Tricks
Mo Costandi Guardian
Looming Peanut Butter Riots on Halloween?
Hank Campbell Science 2.0
How Do We Know How Many Galaxies Exist?
Ethan Siegel ScienceBlogs
Fukushima 'Hot Spots' Raise Unfounded Fears
Geoff Brumfiel Nature
Is the Secret to Happiness Found in Our Genes, Race?
The Economist
Coveting Thy Neighbor's Wife: Cost-Benefit Analysis
John Tierney NYT
Newton Blog: Dancing Scientists Are on to Something


Tuesday, October 18
'Occupy Wall St.' Facing Sanitation Issues
Janelle Vaesa Decoded Science
In Search of Virus Fossils
Michael Schirber Astrobiology Magazine
Lethal Virus Found in Wild Pacific Salmon
Dean & Nuwer Seattle Times
Can Too Much Spicy Food Kill You?
Katharine Gammon LL Mysteries
Politics Heating Up Over Labeling GM Foods
April Fulton NPR
BPA Ban Is Anti-Science, Political Grandstanding
Jon Entine HuffPo
Shooting For the Stars: Long-Distance Space Travel
Kenneth Chang NYT
Examining the Galaxies in Our Universe
Ethan Siegel ScienceBlogs
Moon's Shadow Creates a Wake
Timothy Wogan Physics World
'Faster Than Light' Claim: Einstein Wins, Again?
Rebecca Boyle PopSci
Newton Blog: Does Plate Size Affect How Much Food We Eat?


Wednesday, October 19
Value of Pi Calculated to 10 Trillion Digits
Julian Ryall Telegraph
Accusations Fly Over Radiation Research
Marcel Crok Science Insider
Trial Vaccine Cuts Malaria Risk by 50%
Kerry Sheridan Cosmos
New Tech Tracks, Prevents Food Outbreaks
Ariel Schwartz Fast Co.
World May Be Running Out of Clean Water
Bryan Walsh Time
Killer Whales Make Waves to Hunt Seals
BBC News
More Friends Linked to More Gray Matter
Makiko Kitamura Bloomberg
Positive Memories Are More Accurate
Tom Jacobs Miller-McCune
Yo-Yo Could Turn Building Into Energy Source
Chris Lee Ars Technica
Report: Poor Safety Record in College Labs
Vergano & Korte USA Today
Newton Blog: Dumb Things Grad Students Do in Lab


Thursday, October 20
Are 7-Game World Series Too Common?
Ben Stein Inside Science
Baseball Necklaces Utilize Placebo Effect
John Timmer Ars Technica
'Faster Than Light' Neutrinos: Game Over?
Ethan Siegel ScienceBlogs
For Better or Worse: IQ Changes in Teens
David Shukman BBC News
Infections Possible For Wall St. Protesters
Janelle Vaesa Decoded Sci.
Mechanism Proposed to Explain Glowing, Blue Ocean
Live Science
NASA Unveils Topographic Map of Earth
Elizabeth Perkins Digital Jrnl
Beautiful Mathematics of Spaghetti
Richard Webb NewScientist
How Do Pandas Survive on Bamboo?
Rachel Kaufman Nat'l Geographic
Exotic Farm Animals Escape, Monkey Possibly Eaten
Moni Basu CNN
Newton Blog: Five Most Interesting Man-Made Moon Objects


Friday, October 21
China Suspends Rare Earth Metal Exports
Jason Mick Daily Tech
Winners vs. Losers: The Fate of 10 Tyrants
Erik Sass Mental Floss
Five Radical Changes in 21st Century
Natalie Wolchover LL Mysteries
Rise of Anti-Nanotech Terrorism?
Scott Waldman Albany Times Union
Rising Value of a Science Degree
Motoko Rich New York Times
String Theory Gets a Much-Needed Lab Partner
Zeeya Merali Nature
Mismatched Genome Partners Shape Complex Life
Ed Yong Discover
First Americans Not From Siberian Land-Bridge
Jonathan Amos BBC
P-T Extinction: When Earth Almost Died
Oliver Knevitt Science 2.0
An Evolutionary Origin of Religion?
Robert Bellah Big Questions Online
Newton Blog: On Great Pumpkins, Linus Was Ahead of His Time
Saturday, October 22
America Needs Broadly Educated Citizens
Michael M. Crow Slate
Feelings of Disgust Linked to Political Orientation
Brandon Keim Wired
The Many Hazards of Confidence
Daniel Kahneman New York Times
'BEST' Study Confirms Global Warming
Richard Black BBC News
Cell Phone Use & Cancer Debate is Far From Over
Brian Walsh Time
In Defense of Animal Experiments
Paul Vallely The Independent
Animal Panics: Comparing Zanesville with Paris
Paula Young Lee Slate
Why Moammar Gadhafi Was So Strange
Stephanie Pappas LiveScience
Using Viruses to Dye Your Clothes
Esther Inglis-Arkell io9
Is Facebook Better than Sex?
Sam Biddle Gizmodo
Monday, October 24
Could China Own the Moon by 2026?
John Didymus Digital Journal
NASA Considers Orbiting Depots For Refueling
Kenneth Chang NYT
Dark Energy to Make Universe a Lonely Place
Kash Farooq Telegraph
Icy Star-Disc Hints at Watered Planets
Lisa Grossman NewScientist
Fish Heads Clog Seals' Breathing Holes
David Malakoff Conservation
Pig-to-Human Transplants Coming Soon?
Jeremy Laurance Independent
Tasmanian Devils May Beat Infectious Cancer
Cynthia Mills Inside Sci.
U.S. Measles Outbreak Due to Unvaccinated
Steven Reinberg USA Today
No Vaccine? Doctor Won't See You Now
Carol Eisenberg Bloomberg
Hard Lessons For Scientists, Journalists
Hank Campbell Science 2.0
Newton Blog: 'BEST' Is Best Study on Climate Change


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