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Why Is Minnesota’s Recount Doomed?
Charles Seife wrote an op-ed for yesterday’s New York Times about the recount in Minnesota, which seems like it ought to be a simple problem but isn’t
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Picture of the Week—Diatoms or Modern Art?
Michael Stringer of Westcliff-on-Sea, England won the 2008 Nikon Small world Photomicrography Competition earlier this year with the image below
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Primatologist’s Prison Sentence Commuted
Primatologist and Amazon adventurer Marc van Roosmalen was convicted last year in Brazil of illegal wildlife trafficking and theft of government property
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The Tragic Tale of the Pygmy in the Zoo
In 1904, several Pygmies were brought to live in the anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair
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The Mystery of the Missing Acorns
I was surprised to read in the Washington Post yesterday that oak trees from northern Virginia to Nova Scotia failed to produce any acorns this year
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The signature tree of the Rockies is in trouble
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Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Chewing dinosaurs, climate change, self-sacrificing ants and black bears
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Picture of the Week – Is that Lettuce?
This is a sea slug, Elysia chlorotica, and it looks like a leaf because it has acquired chloroplasts from its algal prey and stored them in its gut lining
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Seven Questions for Turkey Day
In preparation for tomorrow’s big day, I offer you a selection of articles on the theme of turkey science:How did the turkey in my oven get so big?
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