This week saw publication of a PLOS One paper on a potential environmental cause of autism that caught the attention of the…
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Guest Post Fish, Antidepressants, Autism and a Problematic Research Premise
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ethics Should Chimpanzees Have Moral Standing? An Interview with Frans de Waal
Whether from hubris or insecurity, humans like to view our species as the crown of creation, beings beyond compare in the animal…
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Guest Post The Renaissance man: how to become a scientist over and over again
Editor’s note: This post originally ran on Ed Yong’s blog, Not Exactly Rocket Science, and has been reposted here with permission. -B.Mossop…
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Guest Post Anatomy Lesson
Editor’s note: Rebecca German is a Visiting Fellow and Officer of Harvard University where she took gross anatomy as a student, and…
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Guest Post Saving Ethiopia’s “Church Forests”
In America, some fundamental Christians believe that man has a God-given right to use the earth and all its resources to meet…
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Guest Post Let’s say good-bye to the straw-feminist
“This was not a permissible hypothesis”. That was social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s recent explanation of the outrage that followed Lawrence Summers’ speech…
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Guest Post OK to GO: Rehabilitating Awesome
You know that pejorative term we throw around to describe disposable science writing, “gee whiz”? I use it all the time, even…
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Guest Post What Alternative Energy Taught Us About the Fish that Live in the East River
Lesson 1: There are fish that live in the East River Sure, New York City’s East River has long been a punchline…