RealClearScience Evening Edition

Wednesday, May 22
The Big Fat Truth: Overweight Can Be Healthy - Virginia Hughes, Nature
60 and Pregnant - Miriam Zoll, The Atlantic
New Asthma Treatment Extremely Successful - Ransdell Pierson, Reuters
Cancer Findings Are Hard to Reproduce - Adam Marcus, Retraction Watch
Does Climate Change Cause Bigger Tornadoes? - Shaunacy Ferro, PopSci
Why Banking Needs Quantum Physics - Jonathon Keats, Big Think
Journal Club: Spiders May Be Evolving Away from Web-Making
Tuesday, May 21
Did Humans Hunt & Eat Neanderthals? - Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News
Personal Genomics Can Be Quite Perilous - Daniel Engber, Slate
You're Less Beautiful Than You Think - Ozgun Atasoy, Scientific American
'Big Candy' Study Says Candy Won't Make You Fat - Colin Lecher, PopSci
Dog Trained to Comprehend Sentences - Bruce Bower, Science News
Why I'm Studying a Theory That's Wrong - Matt von Hippel, Ars Tech
Monday, May 20
Would You Open Up to a Robot Shrink? - Alix Spiegel, NPR
Stem Cells Restore Sight to Blind Man - Andy Coghlan, NewScientist
Quantum Computers Are Like Idiot Savants - Gary Marcus, New Yorker
Op-Ed: No Uranium Mining Near Grand Canyon - Ken Brower, Nat Geo
Could Cold Fusion Actually Be for Real? - Tommaso Dorigo, Science 2.0
So Many State Birds Are Totally Lame - Nicholas Lund, Slate
Friday, May 17
Were Victorian Age People More Intelligent? - Bob Yirka, PhysOrg
Why There Are So Few Lefties in China - Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News
My 'Truly Remarkable' Cancer Breakthrough - Mary E. Williams, Salon
Hey Animal Planet, Learn What a Monster Is - Kyle Hill, SciAmerican
How We Could Find Alien Life Soon - Lee Billings, Nautilus
What's the Fastest Ship in Science Fiction? - Chris Kirk, Slate
Thursday, May 16
Quantum Computer to Be Installed at NASA - Alex Mansfield, BBC News
How NASA Could Save Kepler - Clay Dillow, Popular Science
A Calculator Built from Living Cells - Akshat Rathi, The Conversation
Star Trek's Top Six Scientific Errors - Phil Plait, Slate
Misunderstood 'Connection' Between Race & IQ - Brink Lindsey, Atlantic
How Needing to Wee Affects Decision-Making - Neurobonkers, Big Think
Wednesday, May 15
Why Weird Rituals Actually Work - F. Gino & M. Norton, Sci American
The Science of Embracing the Void - Seth Stevenson, Slate
Chemists Work on Addiction-Proof Painkillers - Francie Diep, PopSci
Human Embryos Cloned to Make Stem Cells - M. Doucleff & R. Stein, NPR
Depressed People Live in Different Time Zone - Steve Connor, Independent
Russia's Failed Cold War Laser-Toting Satellite - Amy Teitel, Ars Technica
Tuesday, May 14
The Lethality of Loneliness - Judith Shulevitz, The New Republic
Green-Friendly Bug Repellent Doesn't Work - Brooke Borel, Slate
Yeast: Beer, Fear & Loathing - John-Manuel Andriote, The Atlantic
Fungus Is the Internet of the Plant World - Mark Wilson, Fast Company
Have Archaeologists Found Lost City in Honduras? - Tim Walker, Indep.
Cosmic Flash Could Herald Birth of Black Hole - Ian Randall, Phys. World
Gallery: Astronauts Return from Successful Mission at ISS
Journal Club: The First Case of Seizures Caused by Laughter
Monday, May 13
Why Babies in Every Country Say 'Mama' - Therese Oneill, The Week
Is Diet Milk Coming to a Store Near You? - Daniel Engber, Slate
Behind the Scenes of the $325,000 Burger - Henry Fountain, N.Y. Times
UN Urges People to Eat Insects to Fight World Hunger - BBC News
Two Grains of Alien Sand Can Tell Us a Lot - Caleb Scharf, The New Yorker
Barns Are Red Because of Dying Stars - Rose Eveleth, Smithsonian
Journal Club: Differences in Suicide Between U.S. Men, Women

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