Science: Superman Violates Key Law of Physics
A new candidate for the best abstract ever has just come to my attention.
Asylum Takes Its Films Just as Seriously as Viewers Do
When Amanda Hess began researching the B-movie film company Asylum, for her story “Escaped From the Asylum,” she got in touch with Courtney Hagen.
A Review of Strange Videos From a Zany Food Psychologist
Brian Wansink, the director of Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab, is a world-renowned and widely published expert in the field of consumer behavior.
Are Wide-Faced Guys the Best Negotiators?
Wide-faced guys tend to do a better job benefiting themselves than skinny-faced guys do when negotiating, but also are worse at compromising.
It’s Going to Rain 20 Percent of the Time, 100 Percent of the Time
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service employs a social scientist whose job it is to interpret how people interpret her employer's forecasts.
In Search of the Ultimate Abstract
"Former rocket scientist & investment banker, now a circus clown."
Catch ‘The Medical Issue’ Features on the Airwaves
If you haven’t checked out our line-up of features in the latest print issue, you should.
On Immigrants, Diseases, and Fishbowls
A fascinating back-and-forth is going on between Time magazine’s Jeffrey Kluger and Real Clear Science editor Alex Berezow on the highly charged issue of whether we really have anything to fear, in terms of disease, from those Central American immigrant children making their way to the American border.
The World’s Shortest Dwarfing Apple Rootstock
Shortly after publishing an article about my quest to identify the world’s actual lowest hanging fruit, David Karp, a…