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Projectile Poop: Why Some Caterpillars Go Ballistic(ally)
Scientists answer the age-old question: Why do certain species of caterpillar fling their poop far and wide?
by The Carnal Carnival is a new science-blog carnival that collects “posts covering, mostly from a scientific perspective, a variety of bodily functions, fluids and excretions that are usually not discussed…
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History of Science
The Tippling Woodpecker
A 1911 nature study guide waxes lyrical about the yellow-bellied sapsucker's alcoholism.
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27 June 2010
The Tippling WoodpeckerA 1911 nature study guide waxes lyrical about the yellow-bellied sapsucker's alcoholism.
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27 June 2010
Art ‘n Shit
Q&A: Grace White
A Paper Whisperer Explains Why Your Love Letters Hate Your Fingers
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07 June 2010
Q&A: Grace WhiteA Paper Whisperer Explains Why Your Love Letters Hate Your Fingers
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07 June 2010
Health
Not Right in the Head: An Escalating List of Traumatic Brain Injuries
In which we discover an amazing array of objects that have accidentally penetrated people's skulls and failed to kill them.
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28 May 2010
Not Right in the Head: An Escalating List of Traumatic Brain InjuriesIn which we discover an amazing array of objects that have accidentally penetrated people's skulls and failed to kill them.
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28 May 2010
Human Nature
Mad or Machine?
How Modern Technology Shapes and Mirrors Delusional Beliefs
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26 April 2010
Mad or Machine?How Modern Technology Shapes and Mirrors Delusional Beliefs
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26 April 2010
Human Nature
If I May Be So BOLD: How Charisma Can Make You Hand Over Your Brain
Who would you let take over your thoughts?
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14 April 2010
If I May Be So BOLD: How Charisma Can Make You Hand Over Your BrainWho would you let take over your thoughts?
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14 April 2010
Material Science
Will We Fry Like Bacon When the Poles Flip?
Are Earth’s magnetic fields set to reverse? And will life as we know it be pooched when that happens?
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30 March 2010
Will We Fry Like Bacon When the Poles Flip?Are Earth’s magnetic fields set to reverse? And will life as we know it be pooched when that happens?
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30 March 2010
Human Nature
Do Be So Sentimental
Studies show that nostalgia has powerful evolutionary functions.
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15 March 2010
Do Be So SentimentalStudies show that nostalgia has powerful evolutionary functions.
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15 March 2010
Pop Culture
Please Pass the Astragalus
Inkling tackles the science behind a new science-fiction novel.
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04 March 2010
Please Pass the AstragalusInkling tackles the science behind a new science-fiction novel.
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04 March 2010
Art ‘n Shit
Q&A: Diana Sudyka
A conversation about birds, art, science, and history.
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26 February 2010
Q&A: Diana SudykaA conversation about birds, art, science, and history.
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26 February 2010
Material Science
More Valentine’s Gifts for Scientist-Types
10 + 1 Ideas For Nerdy Romantics
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12 February 2010
More Valentine’s Gifts for Scientist-Types10 + 1 Ideas For Nerdy Romantics
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12 February 2010
Human Nature
Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur
Being a Statistical Analysis of Graffiti Found at the University of Chicago Library
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03 February 2010
Crescat Graffiti, Vita ExcolaturBeing a Statistical Analysis of Graffiti Found at the University of Chicago Library
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03 February 2010
Human Nature
Women’s Fliberation
Will Big Pharma's female libido-booster Flibanserin enliven ailing sex lives—or handcuff women to another daily pill?
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27 January 2010
Women’s FliberationWill Big Pharma's female libido-booster Flibanserin enliven ailing sex lives—or handcuff women to another daily pill?
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27 January 2010
Pop Culture
Book Club: The Happiness Project
What do you see if you put your own happiness under the microscope? Gretchen Rubin lets us know as she chases the bluebird.
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19 January 2010
Book Club: The Happiness ProjectWhat do you see if you put your own happiness under the microscope? Gretchen Rubin lets us know as she chases the bluebird.
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19 January 2010
Portraits
Q&A: Phillip Chee
A dedicated astrophotographer explains how he opens up the skies.
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12 January 2010
Q&A: Phillip CheeA dedicated astrophotographer explains how he opens up the skies.
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12 January 2010
Creature Feature
Lessons from the Sea Squirt
Still trying to "find yourself"? If the sea squirt can do it, so can you.
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09 January 2010
Lessons from the Sea SquirtStill trying to "find yourself"? If the sea squirt can do it, so can you.
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09 January 2010
Underwired
Prosthetic Memory: A Camera That Gives Back Lost Moments
Observation changes even the smallest of observed particles. Can it change moments and memories, too?
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28 December 2009
Prosthetic Memory: A Camera That Gives Back Lost MomentsObservation changes even the smallest of observed particles. Can it change moments and memories, too?
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28 December 2009
Creature Feature
Slippery Negotiations in a Banana Republic
Apes do negotiate—just not, apparently, with Ronald Reagan.
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18 December 2009
Slippery Negotiations in a Banana RepublicApes do negotiate—just not, apparently, with Ronald Reagan.
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18 December 2009
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