Roundups, analysis and explainers on the science news of the day.
(There were so many incredible pictures to chose from for this one. But I’m going with Einstein because: Hello, most beloved scientist of all time! Congrats on being right about everything!!!) I’m up in Springfield, Massachusetts working on a long-form piece about inner-city preschools, when a friend starts texting me a bunch of stuff on gravitational waves. I’m a bit … Continue reading Found: G-waves; hope for humanity
Pictured: me and my twin brother, just a few weeks old, synchronized napping somewhere in Medellin, Colombia. Not pictured: our legs and feet don’t even come close to filling out those onesies… I have an abiding interest in any and all research on the things our biological parents pass down to us — not … Continue reading News Roundup: Our Mothers’ Microbes
Lots of stuff right now on the nation’s growing “bad drug” (i.e. heroin) epidemic, which for some reason we’re treating as a new thing, and on the drug war as it’s playing out in Mexico. And I thought it’d be worthwhile to aggregate what I’m reading on the subject, and then juxtapose it to what I’m … Continue reading News Roundup: Good Drugs, Bad Drugs…
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