This week’s top stories include a new study of skin pigmentation in Africa, a worrying development under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, and an archaeological discovery about rice domestication (in South America!). It’s the science and technology roundup for Sunday, October 15, 2017!
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[As always with these things: Spoiler Alert that gets more Spoilery the longer you read] So before my current review can make sense, we have to rewind a bit. A couple of years ago, I […]
This week we’ve got the low-down on the Nobel Prizes (except Economics, which isn’t really a Nobel anyway), the potential for a green rebuild of Puerto Rico’s energy grid, and evidence of a very old, very large lake on Mars. It’s the science and technology roundup for Sunday, October 8, 2017!
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Photo: Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0 In general, I do my best to try to not silence other women. As a whole, we’ve had our voices oppressed for quite some time, and as the newly […]
This week we’ve got stories on a promising attempt to make gluten that Coeliac sufferers can eat, Australia’s plan to finally get their own space agency, and Elon Musk’s latest version of his plan to colonize Mars! It’s the weekly sci-tech roundup for Sunday, October 1, 2017!
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This week we’ve got the OSIRIS-REX flyby, this year’s IgNobel Prizes, and an electric bus that went a hell of a long way! It’s the sci-tech roundup for Sunday, September 24, 2017!
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Hey lovely readers! Trigger warnings for discussions of sexual assault in the following piece. If that is (understandably) not your bag, please rejoin me next week, where I will hopefully not be talking about it again.
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Today we’ve got the end of the incredible Cassini mission, the efficacy of using the banhammer on Reddit’s bigots, and the sheer unrelenting incompetence of Equifax—it’s the sci-tech roundup for Sunday, September 17, 2017!
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Last year for Valentine’s Day, I wrote a post about our troubling tendency to romanticize talking behaviors and grand gestures as things that prove a man’s love. And oh look, I get to do it again!
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Today we’re going to talk about The Hitman’s Bodyguard, what I loved about it, and some of the things that could use some work. (Don’t get a Master’s degree in anything that involves critical analysis, kids. It means you don’t get to fully enjoy anything for the rest of your life.)
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Skin Colours, Ice Shelves, and Rice Fields | Vol. 4 / No. 51 
Ellements of Film #3: Kingsman: The Golden Circle | Vol. 4 / No. 50.1 
Shut up, Sharon, Or When It Isn’t Your Turn to Talk | Vol. 4 / No. 49.1 
Coeliac-Approved Gluten, and Australian Space Agency, and Musk’s New Mars Plan | Vol. 4 / No. 49 
The OSIRIS-REX Flyby, IgNobel Winners, and An Electric Bus With A Long Range | Vol. 4 / No. 48 
Color-Changing Nail Polish is for Raves, Not Rape | Vol. 4 / No. 47.1 
Ending Cassini, Banning Bigots, and—Oh FFS, Equifax! | Vol. 4 / No. 47