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July 25, 2012

11:21 AM | Dream First: Inspiration at Hayden Planetarium’s Event

Thursday night I journeyed through the Universe. I was in the Hadyen Planetarium, gazing at the stars, surrounded by some of the top tech startup and media outlet folk. Our guide was not Whoopi Goldberg, but Carter Emmart, director of Astrovisualization at American Museum of Natural History. Like a double-decker tour guide of the cosmos, [...]

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January 13, 2012

1:33 PM | Science and Sanctions: Nanotechnology in Iran

Interview with Dr. Abdolreza Simchi Iran has dominated the news recently in a chess match between itself and the West. From the country’s ongoing nuclear program to the capture of an American spy drone to the current threat of closing the Persian Gulf from oil tankers, fears of an unstable, aggressive Iran spring to life [...]

Scientific American - Guest Blog

General Science

January 11, 2012

2:55 PM | Falafel Tech: Nanotechnology in Egypt

Interview with Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb Today is the last day of Egypt’s regional elections. The revolution there, with its daring protesters and turbulent course of events, has captured a global audience. However, the aspect of this change that has not been talked about is its impact on Egyptian technological progress, especially in nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is a [...]

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General Science

September 30, 2011

11:03 AM | The Smallest Revolution: Five Recent Breakthroughs in Nanomedicine

Nanotechnology is a cutting-edge advancement within science and engineering. It is not a single field but an intense collaboration between disciplines to manipulate materials on the atomic and molecular level. When this technology is applied to medicine, the results are especially exciting, and can better our lives in drastic new ways. Its inventive and interdisciplinary [...]

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Wanna learn a second language? Ditch that familiar face.

Have you ever felt like you behave differently depending on your cultural surroundings? As an immigrant, I know I start mimicking others’ accents and body language once I’m out of my heritage culture. This type of environment-induced chameleon-like morphing is called – quite aptly – “frame switching” in psychology. Scientists don’t really know if it […]

Zhang S, Morris MW, Cheng CY & Yap AJ (2013). Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants' second-language processing through triggering first-language interference., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, PMID: 23776218

Neurorexia

Medicine | Neuroscience

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LEGO Faces are Getting Angrier; So What?

Transport yourselves back to sprawling across the living room floor—colored blocks scattered like confetti about the carpet—building the highest towers and fattest spaceships (without directions, of course), all the while ignoring your parents' yelps as they step on a rogue piece. There's nothing quite like LEGO. And certainly there's nothing quite like those ubiquitious yellow, blocky LEGO faces. But a piece in The Daily Mail last week cites that "LEGO faces are getting angrier," and that […]

BAIRD, A., GRUBER, S., FEIN, D., MASS, L., STEINGARD, R., RENSHAW, P., COHEN, B. & YURGELUN-TODD, D. (1999). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Facial Affect Recognition in Children and Adolescents, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 38 (2) 195-199. DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199902000-00019

Mar, R. (2011). The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension, Annual Review of Psychology, 62 (1) 103-134. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120709-145406

Thomas, K., Drevets, W., Whalen, P., Eccard, C., Dahl, R., Ryan, N. & Casey, B. (2001). Amygdala response to facial expressions in children and adults, Biological Psychiatry, 49 (4) 309-316. DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(00)01066-0

Gaines, on Brains

Neuroscience | Health

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Thanks Dad!

Daddy's girl. Photo from freedigitalphotos.net.Let’s take a moment to appreciate just how special dads are. Across the animal kingdom, fathers caring for their young is the exception, not the rule. Paternal care is most often seen in species in which males can be pretty sure that they are indeed the father (for example, in species that fertilize eggs outside of the mothers’ bodies or in socially monogamous species). Mammals rarely act fatherly - Only 10% of mammalian species show […]

Curley, J., Mashoodh, R. & Champagne, F. (2011). Epigenetics and the origins of paternal effects, Hormones and Behavior, 59 (3) 306-314. DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.06.018

Wilkins, J. & Haig, D. (2003). What good is genomic imprinting: the function of parent-specific gene expression, Nature Reviews Genetics, 4 (5) 359-368. DOI: 10.1038/nrg1062

The Scorpion and the Frog

Behavioral Biology | Neuroscience

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Will we have fruit in a future without bees?

Do people really still hand pollinate orchards in China? And why don't they just get more bees? A story about the past and a possible future. … Continue reading →

Burkle L.A., Marlin J.C. & Knight T.M. (2013). Plant-Pollinator Interactions over 120 Years: Loss of Species, Co-Occurrence, and Function, Science, 339 (6127) 1611-1615. DOI: 10.1126/science.1232728

Garibaldi L.A., Steffan-Dewenter I., Winfree R., Aizen M.A., Bommarco R., Cunningham S.A., Kremen C., Carvalheiro L.G., Harder L.D. & Afik O. & (2013). Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance, Science, 339 (6127) 1608-1611. DOI: 10.1126/science.1230200

Partap U. & Ya T. (2012). The Human Pollinators of Fruit Crops in Maoxian County, Sichuan, China, Mountain Research and Development, 32 (2) 176-186. DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-11-00108.1

Partap U. (2010). Innovations in revival strategies for declining pollinators with particular reference to the indigenous honey bees: Experiences of ICIMOD's initiatives in the Hindu Rush-Himalayan region, Pest Management and Economic Zoology, 18 (1) 85-95.

TangYa, Xie Jia-sui, & Chen Keming (2001). Hand pollination of pears and its implications for biodiversity conservation and environmental protection -- A case study from Hanyuan County, Sichuan Province, China, FAO Case studies on pollinators and pollination, Other: Link

The Bug Blog

Ecology | Gender

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Whence the Earliest Berliners? (Part 1)

This week, I'm hanging out in Chapel Hill at the Isotope Geochemistry Lab on UNC's campus. I'm here to process human dental enamel from Medieval Germans for strontium, to test the hypothesis that the earliest residents of modern Berlin migrated east from Cologne. A bit of background for this project: In the early 13th century AD, two towns were built on opposite sides of the Spree River. Called Berlin (or, sometimes, Altberlin) and Cölln, they eventually became one city in the […]

C.M. Melisch & J.P. Sewell (2011). Historische Chance – eine umfangreiche, mittelalterliche bis neuzeitliche Skelettserie vom ehemaligen St. Petri-Kirchhof in Berlin-Mitte, Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, 32 107-120.

Anthropology | Archeology

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