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Vacationing with Death Just Got Academic
Dark Tourism…it’s like rubbernecking with a hotel.
May 14, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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Track Every Species on Earth with the Map of Life
There are nearly two million described species of animal and plant life in the world, with estima...
May 14, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Hot Links: Teens Sue Feds over Climate, Iran Bans Gmail
The hottest weekend link that you need to read.
May 14, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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What Does It Mean That Politicians' Views "Evolve"?
I don’t think President Obama suddenly had some kind of epiphany before his interview with ...
May 10, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Chimp Nut-Smashing Techniques Explain Our Proto-Culture
Conventional wisdom makes a big deal about the cultural gap that sets humans apart from apes – th...
May 10, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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Science Can't Be Trusted
If science can’t trust itself, how can researchers expect the already-fickle public to care...
May 09, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Nature Adapts to the Most Awful Shit
Motherboard covered fairly recently the evolved mating strategy of male bed bugs, which involves ...
May 09, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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Obama's an Environmental Failure
Shortly after BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling ring exploded, killing 11 men and ultimately dumpin...
May 09, 2012
by Michael_Arria
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The Truth about America's Highway Killers
In the special Bicentennial Issue of Life, the nation’s interstate system was described as, “The ...
May 08, 2012
by Michael_Arria
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Titanoboa, The Biggest Snake Ever, Is a Paleo-Thermometer
Several years ago a coal mine in Columbia turned up some fossils, which is quite common for indus...
May 08, 2012
by Ryan_Haupt
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Hot Links: Tweeting Obama's Whereabouts, Octopus Vs. Bird
Catch up on the missed stories you still need to read.
May 07, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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The GIFt of Life: Biology in 12 Endless Loops
Bio-GIFs are the animated gifts biology has gifted to the Internets. And here’s 10 of the b...
May 05, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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Our Insane $24 Billion Oil Rig
Simply put, the continued existence of oil subsidies amounts to one of the most obvious and endur...
May 02, 2012
by BrianMerchant
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Newly-Discovered Lizards Are Rad, But Also Probably Extinct
In the largest batch of species discovery since the early 1800s, a team of researchers from Penn ...
May 02, 2012
by Lara_Heintz
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(video)The Phineas Gage Goose That Poe Predicted
The great thing about the local news is that…well, it’s the local news. Whereas national ne... (video)
May 02, 2012
by Trevor_Macomber
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Dinosaurs Didn't Just Burn Out, First They Faded Away
When it comes to hypothetical questions, “What if a giant asteroid (or whatever) hadn’t killed of...
May 02, 2012
by Ben_Richmond
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Brazil Set to Increase Amazon Deforestation
For as long as I can remember — thanks to haunting National Geographic spreads and the like...
May 01, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Thanks to Sex, Humans Are Still Evolving
We humans tend to think we’re pretty much perfect. We’ve taken over the world, produc...
Apr 30, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Nothing In Nature Outchomps the Rat (and Why We Care)
First, why we care. The short answer is that they won. Rats, in terms of evolution, are kings. Th...
Apr 28, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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How a $4 Piece of Fabric Saves Millions of Lives
Malaria killed as many as 1,000,000 people in 2010. But the number has decreased sharply as of l...
Apr 27, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
