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September 01, 2011

Neuroscientist Leslie Vosshall and sensory psychologist Avery Gilbert illuminate how we perceive smells genetically as well as culturally. BOOM. The smell hit me like a punch in the teeth. Staggering, I tried to make sense of the pungent, salty, almost sweet odor. It was certainly offensive, but also curiously intriguing. What was this? The offending [...]

August 17, 2011

1:45 PM | How the Brain Remembers 9/11

When the first plane hit, I was literally shaken out of the shower. What was that? I remember the precise look on my roommate’s face when I walked into the living room of the tiny tenement-style apartment we shared on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, about a mile from the World Trade Center: a [...]

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How Your Social Status Influences the Way You’re Judged

One of the palpable weaknesses in the American justice system is the tendency for it to produce different outcomes for people from different social classes. Part of this is a result of discrepancies in the quality of legal representation people can afford, but part of it is also due to inconsistencies in the way morally questionable activities [...]

Polman, E., Pettit, N. & Wiesenfeld, B. (2013). Effects of wrongdoer status on moral licensing, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49 (4) 614-623. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.03.012

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“You’ll Do”: Lack of Choosiness in Female Strawberry Poison Dart Frogs

Mate choice is one of the most well-studied aspects of evolution. To prove that they’re worth the effort, animals will do just about anything. They dance, prance, sing, bellow, and fight for attention. When you look around the animal kingdom, the wild results of mate choice boldly stand out, from the impractically beautiful tails of [...]

Meuche I., Brusa O., Linsenmair K.E., Keller A. & Pröhl H. (2013). Only distance matters -- non-choosy females in a poison frog population, Frontiers in Zoology, 10 (1) 29. DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-10-29

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The Valentine's Day Magnetic Monopole

There's an assymetry to the form of the two Maxwell's equations shown in picture 1. While the divergence of the electric field is proportional to the electric charge density at a given point, the divergence of the magnetic field is equal to zero. This is typically explained in the following way. While we know that electrons, the fundamental electric charge carriers exist, evidence seems to indicate that magnetic monopoles, the particles that would carry […]

Cabrera B. (1982). First Results from a Superconductive Detector for Moving Magnetic Monopoles, Physical Review Letters, 48 (20) 1378-1381. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1378

Friseh H.J. (1990). Quest for magnetic monopoles, Nature, 344 (6268) 706-707. DOI: 10.1038/344706a0

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Why don't men understand women?

Men might have found themselves an excuse not to listen to women. New research suggests that men have twice more difficulty reading emotions in women than in men. This may not sound surprising, but evidence that men have trouble understanding women is, at best, scarce.Being able to guess someone else’s thoughts, feelings and intentions is […]

Schiffer B., Pawliczek C., Müller B.W., Gizewski E.R., Walter H. & Krueger F. (2013). Why Don't Men Understand Women? Altered Neural Networks for Reading the Language of Male and Female Eyes, PLoS ONE, 8 (4) e60278. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060278.g003

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Shale Gas Fracking Has No Impact on Groundwater in Arkansas, Study Concludes

A new study by scientists at Duke University and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) finds no evidence of groundwater contamination from shale gas production in Arkansas. “Our results show no discernible impairment of groundwater quality in areas associated with natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing in this region,” said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. Read more »

Warner, N., Kresse, T., Hays, P., Down, A., Karr, J., Jackson, R. & Vengosh, A. (2013). Geochemical and isotopic variations in shallow groundwater in areas of the Fayetteville shale development, north-central Arkansas, Applied Geochemistry, DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2013.04.013

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