By Sheril Kirshenbaum and Chris Mooney
Solar power uses radiant energy from the sun for heating water, air, and making electricity. It’s certainly not a bad idea in terms of renewable solutions to our energy crisis given the source isn’t burning out anytime soon, but of course, this technology isn’t right for everyone. [...]
By Sheril Kirshenbaum and Chris Mooney
The box jellyfish. A fascinating critter with powerful venom, this one’s not for the faint of heart.
Alternatively known as sea wasps and marine stingers, these animals serve up a frightening cocktail of toxins that attack the nervous system, heart, and skin. Generally they prey on fish and shrimp, but [...]
By Sheril Kirshenbaum and Chris Mooney
Today marks the launch of the National Academy of Sciences’ Science and Entertainment Exchange, an initiative that will work to connect producers, directors, writers and others in need of scientific information for their productions with science, medical and engineering experts. We’re here in Los Angeles headed to the first symposium. [...]
People tell their doctors personal information that no one else knows- these clipboard wielding strangers know so many details about us that maybe it’s time we get to know them a little better. One could look to prime time to learn more about the secret lives of doctors- ABC’s Scrubs is hilarious, ER is a [...]
To view Naturally Obsessed is to be extremely engrossed. This new documentary by Sloan-Kettering Institute Chairman Emeritus Dr. Richard Rifkind and his wife activist Carole Rifkind invites audiences into the molecular biology lab of Dr. Larry Shapiro of Columbia University’s medical school. Here’s the link to the film’s site.
We meet three graduate students and experience [...]
By Ben Lillie
Recently I attended the opening of The Atom Smashers, a documentary by
Clayton Brown and Monica Long Ross from 137 Films. It was held,
appropriately, at the Museum of Science and Industry. Unfortunately,
this had the effect of providing us with what is probably the smallest
screen in the city of Chicago. That can easily be forgiven [...]
By Caitlin Militello
On March 15, MSNBC had some surprising news about peanut allergies. Thanks to a new treatment by Duke University Medical Center and the Arkansas Children’s Hospital, 29 children were able to eat peanuts without any allergic reactions. The treatment is called oral desensitization, a method of gradually introducing a food allergen orally [...]
The recent Sensation to Emotion Conference was packed with scholars and clinicians with an interest in advancing the understanding of how sensory processing and emotion regulation interact, and how these processes affect human behavior. In interviewed Dr. Jennifer Brout, the mother of fourteen-year-old triplets, a clinical/child psychologist, and the founder of the EMB Brout [...]
By Kevin Kirshner
This is the first of a three-part series about Breakfast, Obesity & Juvenile Diabetes. Please take the time to write a comment or relate some personal experience — help us make a connection through your stories.
So, Why is Breakfast So Important?
Confused? Well you’re not alone. Over 50% of people [...]
Last Saturday afternoon in the cafeteria of a New York City public school, a ten-year-old boy gazed at a tiny, squirming worm in his palm. “I want to name it,” I heard him say to a volunteer from the Lower East Side Ecology Center, “but even if I give it a name, it still won’t [...]
Super Saturday! is a free event for families and children on Saturday, April 4, 2009. Enjoy a fun-filled day of hands-on science and math activities and demonstrations. Learn the physics of how things fly and how hula hoops work, and the biology of how our bodies move and function, among other amazing things. Parents and [...]
By Talia Page
Ask any non-New Yorker what comes to mind when they think of New York City, and you’ll likely get one of three responses: Wall Street, Broadway, or the Statue of Liberty. These cover important aspects of the city: money, theater/art, and the promise of freedom. But what about science?
In 2004 Mayor Bloomberg [...]
Emily Levine’s personal philosophy, “We must grow up, not wide,” informs her work as well as her life. In her own words, “the upgrade to Emily 3.0” ditches “Emily 2.0, who only ever thinks about herself.” Her workshop, “5 Easy steps to Metaphysical Fitness: They Actually Work,” served as the beta form to her current [...]
By Teshamae Monteith, MD
A few hours after a fall on a ski slope in a Canadian resort on March 18th, Natasha Richardson appeared “disoriented… with signs of confusion… a concussion,” according to a medic. After a lucid interval, she experienced severe headaches. Within a few hours she was verbal but without orientation. [...]
We are all the suns of our own universes, yet I’m not sure I would have had the audacity, or maybe the wisdom, to extend the metaphor to a personal theory of wave particle duality or to a life-sized paradigm shift. Emily Levine dares to see the biggest picture out there and then shrinks [...]
