Tue, February 9, 2010

How Science Suppresses the Sex Lives of Republicans


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Asher Elbein Asher Elbein,
Dinosaurs

Cretaceous CSI: Footprints of Death

Posted 1 week, 6 days ago

Here is a Cretaceous mystery.

Three different species of dinosaur are found in one filled-in pit. They are well preserved, although the method by which it happened is unknown. It’s not a “whodunit”, but a “what-dunit.”  There are clues as to the case, though. And they can be…

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John Humphreys John Humphreys,
Evolution

How Creationists are Like Salamanders — No, Make That Parasites

Posted 1 month ago

Arrested Development since the Arrest of Socrates

In the 4th Century BCE, soldier and scholar Xenophon of Athens put to papyrus his arguments contesting charges by the Athenian court that his esteemed mentor had been corrupting the City’s youth with inappropriate religious teachings and an…

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Emma Jacobs Emma Jacobs,
History of Science

The First Modern Environmental Battle Over Lake Thirlmere

Posted 1 month ago

Manchester’s industrial economy was growing. The city’s population continued to rise, having more than tripled in the first half of the nineteenth century. Standards of hygiene had  also begun to improve with better understandings of the roots of disease and demands of public health. However,…

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Asher Elbein Asher Elbein,
Dinosaurs

Proof By Illustration: The Case of the (un)feathered Theropod

Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Images have power.

Every news outlet in the world knows it. Photographs, cartoons, sketches, whatever–all have been and continue to be used to illustrate articles. Get the right image, and the story writes itself. And more often then not, the story that gets written has more to do with the…

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John Humphreys John Humphreys,
Evolution

Why I Love Evolution: An Introduction

Posted 2 months, 1 week ago

Having just taken on the post of Evolution Correspondent here at The Faster Times, it seems fitting that I begin with a justification for this column’s existence.

Evolution is life’s central theme, and, as such, it has maintained a preeminent standing in the human mind; it holds our attention…

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Emma Jacobs Emma Jacobs,
History of Science

The Last Alchemist: Science in Political Times

Posted 3 months ago

Brian Cottoir is the sort of technical guy who doesn’t have a website, but who has tapped into a hip artistic scene drawn to the unusual aesthetics of the historical science that he studies. Cotnoir is a practicing alchemist—by his own admission, one of the last of his kind.

After an hour…

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Asher Elbein Asher Elbein,
Dinosaurs

Adulterous Alligators and Romantic Ravens: The Love Lives of Dinosaurs

Posted 3 months ago

The social behavior of alligators showed up in the news recently with this article, where National Geographic managed to stay classy by using the phrase “Alligator Baby-Daddies.” Despite this rather questionable choice of phrasing, the article is an enlightening one, informing us of some…

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Emma Jacobs Emma Jacobs,
History of Science

Forty Years of Hands-On Science at the Exploratorium

Posted 3 months, 1 week ago

Remember the Exploratorium? Digging your hands in? The exhibits might display the signs of wear but they had bells, whistles, and buttons.

In September of 1969, the doors of the Palace of Fine Arts building in, a leftover of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition opened to reveal a few dozen…

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