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Roman Battaglia/JPR NewsWhere can you fly a plane, fight a wildfire and dissect a human body in one place? At the Hall of Simulation at the Cal Poly Humboldt library. This endeavor is part of an effort to connect with the local community. -
Author Neil Shubin joins the exchange to discuss his decades of research at both poles.
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It's important to us, when people say "I'm proud of you." Pride in ourselves can be another matter entirely. Pride is supposedly the deadliest of sins,… -
If the concept of "citizen journalism" makes you a little uneasy, how might you feel about "citizen science?" In either case, there's more going on in the… -
President Kennedy talked about putting humans on the moon by the end of the 1960s. The job got done, but it took a lot of people, money, and work. Now… -
Easter Island is a fascinating place, and not just because of the the moai, the statues with the big heads. If you look beyond the statues in photographs,… -
The same people who pointed out how many critters live in our houses are now doing the same thing for our faces. Yes, faces. We learned in a previous… -
Maybe you were one of those people who struggled through higher math in school, wondering how it would ever help you in life. Keith Devlin will be happy… -
We respect, if not revere, scientists and their work in our society. We also do not entirely trust them. How's that again? Case in point: climate… -
Nobody currently alive was around at the time of the Big Bang, so far as we know. So we go to science with the scientists we have. Fortunately, those… -
Science is working hard to understand the causes of mental illness, but we're not far removed--if at all--from dismissals like "he's just acting crazy."… -
Maybe you've seen those small wind turbines mounted close to the ground in rural areas. And maybe you've noticed that they don't seem to turn terribly… -
"SPICE girls" is NOT the name of a singing group, at least at the University of Oregon. SPICE stands for Science Program to Inspire Creativity and… -
Don't you wish you had a buck for every politician who says "I'm not a scientist"? You don't have to be a scientist to appreciate its wonders. But it…
