December 2010
6 posts
8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study | Wired... →
A group of British schoolchildren may be the youngest scientists ever to have their work published in a peer-reviewed journal. In a new paper in Biology Letters, 25 8- to 10-year-old children from Blackawton Primary School report that buff-tailed bumblebees can learn to recognize nourishing flowers based on colors and patterns.
A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation →
Geoffrey West doesn’t eat lunch. His doctor says he has a mild allergy to food; meals make him sleepy and nauseated. When West is working — when he’s staring at some scribbled equations on scratch paper or gazing out his office window at the high desert in New Mexico — he subsists on black tea and nuts.
The 10th Annual Year in Ideas - Interactive... →
Delete Button for the Internet: Tool Removes... →
Remember the 1995 movie The Net—when Sandra Bullock frightened audiences with the prospect of having your identity deleted in cyberspace? How times have changed. With the rise of…
