Eruption Updates (11/9/2010) for Merapi and Bulusan
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Author: Vishay Singh
Fractional reserve banking: it's a sin!
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Size doesn't always matter
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The banality of Facebook
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What's Next In Science: My interactive feature in tomorrow's New York Times
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NCBI ROFL: Churchgoing may be hazardous to your health.
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Stewart Brand Gets Fact-Checked
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Tarantula Terror Study Captures the Ebb & Flow of Panic in the Brain
Step 1: Put study subject in MRI machine. Step 2: Show subject video of a huge, hairy tarantula creeping toward their toes. Step 3: Watch panic light up in the brain. For a study out in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dean Mobbs and colleagues put their subjects through this fright fest to sort out how the brain responds to different parts of a threat. It’s not all about the presence of a creepy crawler, Mobbs found—it’s whether that creepy cr ...read more
The Monkey Snuggle Market: How Much for a Quick Nuzzle?
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New Bragging Rights for Pluto? It May Be the Biggest Dwarf Planet
Pluto’s dinky diameter wasn’t the official reason it was demoted from the planetary club back in 2006, but symbolically, size was the last straw. When Caltech astronomer Mike Brown spotted the object we now call Eris back in 2005 and astronomers figured it to be larger than Pluto, the former ninth planet’s fate was sealed. Now Pluto’s reclassification as a “dwarf planet” and the subsequent public outcry is behind us, but new research suggests that the former p ...read more