Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
At this January’s remarkable Science Online conference, the science writer Carl Zimmer, led a discussion of e-books and the future of publishing. And whether the future was, in fact, already here. Zimmer is one of
Last week, a team of researchers from Dartmouth University released a widely publicized study with the somewhat provocative title “Arsenic, Organic Foods and Brown Rice Syrup.” The study was yet another general reminder that words
The Latin name for the cacao tree – the tropical plant source of all things chocolate – consists of two words packed with candy-loving scientific exuberance. Theobroma cacao. It derives from the Greek words for
Early this week, a British criminology professor wrote a slightly plaintive essay about the 19th century serial poisoner, Mary Ann Cotton. Why, he wondered, did no one remember the evil Mary Ann and her remarkable