You stare at the scantron, the your number two pencil clutched in your sweaty fingers. Desperately you wonder: why is this question on the test? Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin may have...
February 26, 2015
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It creeps up on you. First you think you’re just feeling “blue.” Your eating and sleeping habits change. You’re irritable. You feel worthless, guilty, exhausted… Then your blood test confirms...
September 17, 2014
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Is it finally our time? Let’s be honest… we’ve been on top of the food chain for a while now. And we’ve done some pretty cool things – discover agriculture, build megacities, perfect our...
April 15, 2014
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It looks as if the campaign to #CancelColbert may have been somewhat successful… On Thursday, CBS announced that Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report will replace the...
April 13, 2014
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Calling all data lovers, tree-huggers, app-builders, and students in need of class projects! The Federal government just launched a new division of its Data.gov website to deal with what...
March 20, 2014
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TV doesn’t have to be all about talent competitions and reality shows. Back in 1980, Carl Sagan, America’s favorite turtle-neck wearing, smooth-talking scientist brought us Cosmos: A Personal...
March 11, 2014
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Feeling a bit lonely on our blue marble? Never fear! 715 new neighbors just moved in! Actually, they were there all along. We just started noticing. On Wednesday, NASA announced that...
February 27, 2014
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The E. coli made me do it. Or that’s how the New Yorker so elegantly puts it. So how would you react if we told you that bacterial cells outweighed body cells 10 to 1? Or better yet,...
November 21, 2013
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To us Earth is a unique planet. It has liquid water, an atmosphere that shelters it from radiation, and plate tectonics; but most importantly: it sustains life. We have always considered...
November 6, 2013
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Stand aside cocaine… you now have competition. A recently conducted study by a neuroscience student at Connecticut College determined that Oreo cookies are literally as addictive, if not...
October 18, 2013
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