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June 23, 2012Sometimes, on a beautiful Saturday, we find a story like this that makes the day even better.This past week, the head paleontologist at the Museum of Natural History, Mark Norell, noticed a small auction with a listing that should have probably not been there. The auction item was a 11-million-year- ... More >>
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May 30, 2012NBC reports that Peter Dinklage, the 42-year-old Game of Thrones star who's been a vegetarian since he was a teenager, will spend the show's off-season as a national spokesman for Farm Sanctuary's Walk for Farm Animals.
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May 30, 2012Voice Choices
May 16, 2012Blogs
May 2, 2012Barbra's half sister Roslyn Kind has a strong, lovely voice, which she applied to a series of standards at Brooklyn College the other night--everything from "All That Jazz" to "Losing My Mind" to "Meadowlark" and beyond.
And she's funny, too.
Roslyn remarked, "Apple created the best phone ever, an ... More >>
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April 11, 2012A friend of mine listened to Ozzie Guillen's press conference about his admiration of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in Spanish and swears that he also said this - or at least this is the way it translates: "I love the United States' embargo on Cuba-- it's one of my favorite embargoes."
Is it possibl ... More >>
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March 21, 2012Blogs
February 21, 2012A dead baby dolphin washed up on the Queens shoreline, and scientists think the infant might be part of a lager group that had recently been stranded off the Cape Cod coast.
Officials from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation told the New York Daily News that the 3-foot d ... More >>
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February 15, 2012Blogs
January 9, 2012Shit just got real in the world of genetics. Like Jurassic Park -bringing-monsters-back-from-extinction real, just without Jeff Goldblum.
Scientists have determined that a sub-species of Galapagos Islands tortoise -- long thought to be dead and gone -- might actually still kinda exist.
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September 7, 2011Blogs
September 6, 2011They've come for us.Looks like Charlton Heston may have been on to something.
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June 8, 2011Blogs
May 22, 2011​Cornell University researchers are about to begin studying the stem cells of a dozen elderly Jewish New Yorkers to figure out how they manage to live so long. There's evidence of a "longevity gene" which protects against heart disease and cancer; a lot of these seniors are living to 100 despite b ... More >>
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May 12, 2011Bedbugs -- horrible, terrible, repugnant bedbugs -- were bad enough when they were simply infesting our homes and terrorizing our night's sleep. But they've achieved new levels of horror with the news that they may also carry drug-resistant bacteria like MRSA and Staph. Gross. Recent research ... More >>
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April 18, 2011In this day and age, it is common that many of the key mysteries of life are solved via YouTube videos. "What does a baby penguin sounds like when being tickled?" is clearly one. "What is bumblefoot?" remains unsolved by this video, however, which is why we will tell you that Cookie's ailment is "a ... More >>
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April 14, 2011via Jim BahnDucks' semen is pretty special, but you already knew that. It has the ability to kill bacteria that damages sperm and causes disease. The BBC reports that scientists have now found that male ducks with more vibrant bills have semen that is more effective at killing bacteria than d ... More >>
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February 16, 2011inhabitat.comIt's alive!In the second edition of his new op-ed column, Mark Bittman examines the regulations behind genetically modified foods. In short, the USDA now allows three types of genetically engineered foods to be used in food production and none of these will be mentioned on the la ... More >>
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January 28, 2011Ah, why is this not all that surprising? Hm. A father-daughter research team (awkward) from the University of Texas at Austin took on the question of cheating, and determined that men were twice as likely to forgive women who same-sex cheated, and far less likely to continue dating women who ... More >>
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October 13, 2010Jerry Seinfeld directs Colin Quinn's solo show
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September 13, 2010Guess what? There's a new gene identified that can turn bacteria into superbugs resistant to almost all antibiotics out there, according to health officials. It's sickened three people in the U.S. -- in California, Massachusetts, and Illinois -- and two in Canada. All of them had recently got ... More >>
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August 18, 2010Voice Choices
July 6, 2010HERE presents Sweet, Sweet Motherhood
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May 18, 2010An evening with the Anderson Twins
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December 29, 2009Blogs
August 19, 2009woodleywonderworks/flickrThe Huffington Post has an interesting piece on how getting down and dirty with nature in, for example, a vegetable garden can keep us emotionally healthy.
The microbes in dirt, apparently, affect the same neurons that are stimulated by Prozac. A British study from a ... More >>
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April 15, 2009Photo by jere_me @ FlickrThe New York Times may have appended its recent op-ed piece on how small farm pork may be more prone to contamination than its industrially raised counterpart, but readers haven't quite yet recovered from the episode. And neither has the op-ed's author.
James McWilliams cit ... More >>
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April 15, 2009Voice Choices
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September 10, 2008Film
April 15, 2008Spending that Ferris Bueller capital
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February 26, 2008Jurassic Park brought to life in Brooklyn
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February 26, 2008News
January 1, 2008Hide the blackfish! State agents raid Chinese restaurants for puny, but tasty, swimmers
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January 25, 2005Books
November 18, 2003In the genetic chamber of horrors, normality is skin-deep—and immortality will kill you
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May 6, 2003Investigating Imperialism With Julian LaVerdiere
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July 30, 2002News
October 23, 2001The Difficulties of Decontamination
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June 26, 2001Scientists Plan First Ever Release of Genetically Modified Bugs
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November 23, 1999There Are Two AIDS Epidemics—and More May Be Coming
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October 5, 1999News
August 10, 1999Wade Boggs: Fowl Food for Fair Balls
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