Day 53: Anthrax in America not Columbus’s fault

I really had my eyes opened a couple of years ago, when I happened to be in Tuba City, Arizona on Columbus Day. Tuba City is a very small town on the western portion of the Navajo Nation, and close to the Hopi reservation too. The native kids presumably had the day off of school, [...]

Day 46: This chimp just rocks

I’m definitely not breaking news here — ol’ Santino has been making the rounds in the past couple of days. But he deserves his fame. He’s revealed a way of thinking that’s never been so definitively attributed to non-human animals. Santino, a chimp, lives at Sweden’s Furuvik Zoo. Back in 1997, zoo keepers noticed odd piles [...]

Day 45: This is your brain on God

Science will never be able to study God. But scientists are getting ever closer to describing what happens in our brains when we think about God. The idea to peek inside the brains of religious folks is not new, and it started the way many other brain studies did: by looking at brain damage. Starting [...]

Day 36: Bizarre life lurks in Great Lakes sinkholes

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS? Seriously, this is one of the coolest studies I’ve read all week, and not just because it documents biology at temperatures as low as 4 degrees C (39 degrees F) at the bottom of Lake Huron.  This is a study that says some forms of life will still thrive [...]

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