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Astrophysicist, Space Telescope Science Institute
Blunders are not only inevitable, they are an essential part of any innovative thinking process. If not for them, any creative enterprise might be wandering for much too long down too many blind alleys.
Author, ‘On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind’s Hard-Wired Habits’
How do emotional exiles cope? What mental and emotional tools do we have to salve the pain of extreme loneliness and find new forms of meaning? Psychological scientists are very interested in this question.
Author of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined; Co-founder of The Creativity Post
BLACK’s journey highlights the extremely important role of passion in fueling the deliberate practice necessary to gain the valuable expertise necessary to reach higher and higher heights of personal creative expression.
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Crows and ravens are notably large for songbirds, larger than pigeons. Blackbirds and grackles are smaller than pigeons, as are starlings and cowbirds.
Senior Staff Writer, Union of Concerned Scientists
There’s more to corporate counterfeit science than ghostwritten articles, however. Consider the eye-opening case of the agribusiness firm Syngenta and its product atrazine, a widely used agricultural pesticide on corn, sorghum, and sugar cane crops.
Neurologist, public health specialist
Despite the fact that millions of animals are used in experiments each year, we have rarely actually scrutinized the data on animal experiments to determine how relevant they are for human diseases and for improving our lives.
Director, World Ocean Observatory
We all know that the ocean is a valuable source of protein. We don’t all know the true value of the ocean as a pharmacological source with deep implication for the development of new medicines for present and future diseases.
Author, ‘Somebodies and Nobodies’ and ‘The Rowan Tree: A Novel’
Because untold suffering has been licensed by presumed superiority, my nominee for the most important takeaway from the 20th century is the hard-won realization that applying the superior/inferior distinction to persons or peoples is specious.
Former NASA researcher; computational scientist; emeritus professor of mathematics, James Madison University; author, ‘Reason and Wonder’
Few persons are willing to endure what Darwin endured for the sake of an unpopular idea whose time has come. For 20 years Darwin sat on the theory of evolution, procrastinating to postpone the controversy.
Recent graduate, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; founder of BetaDater.com
Despite NASA’s award-winning social media and web outreach efforts, there are still massive gaps between the public’s perception of the agency, and the reality. And unless you are a big space geek like me with daily space Google alerts, it’s not unreasonable to be a bit confused.
Professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Director of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health
While there are few quantitative estimates of the proportion of childhood morbidity and mortality due to human-induced climate change, there is scientific agreement that both direct and indirect effects of climate change have already taken a significant toll on children.
Professor, Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia
What do you do when you have annoyed J.P. Morgan, the most powerful man on Wall Street? This question was very much on the mind of Nikola Tesla in January 1902.
Professor, Reims University
Have you ever wondered how best to pour Champagne into a flute to preserve the precious fizz? Is the traditional method of pouring Champagne into an upright glass the best way, or is it better to pour into the glass at a slant?
Physicist, Ph.D., bestselling author, author of ‘God and the Atom’
Rather than protest the religious displays, which has not met with much success anyway, the new strategy is, “If you can’t beat them, join them.” It seems to be working. If public spaces are to be open forums and all voices are heard, then how can anyone complain?
Manager, Women@NASA program
An aurora occurs when a solar wind is so massive that the energy from the sun is drawn into the Earth’s magnetic field. When these charged particles, mostly the electrons, interact with the gases in our atmosphere, they give off light.
Founder, CEO of Iridescent
Now that summer has arrived, we parents have a gloriously long stretch of time to share new ideas and spark creative thinking through projects that inspire curiosity about our natural world. I’ve written about how parents are the ideal science educators, so I wanted to share some ideas about how to get started.
Evolutionary biologist and author
We biologists tend to forget that talk about sperm competition and cunnilingus-assisted orgasm induces many folks to squirm. It isn’t the squirm factor here that gets my goat.
Author, ‘Do Fathers Matter? The New Science of Fatherhood’
I gathered that fact from a fascinating story in the August Esquire by Luke Dittrich, in which Dittrich comes as close as one could, without access to Alexander’s private thoughts, to showing that the book was a cynical effort to provide a new career for a neurosurgeon whose career was being consumed by malpractice suits.
Assistant Professor of Education, University of Maryland
The University of Texas argued that engaging in a racially diverse student body enhances student learning and fosters positive race relations. Does the same dynamic hold up for a university with greater class diversity?
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