Survey for science bloggers
Paige Brown Jarreau is doing a PhD in science communication at Louisiana State University, and part of her research focuses on science bloggers. She’s surveying science bloggers about their blogging...
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DNA can survive atmosphere re-entry
On March 29, 2011, a TEXUS-49 rocket took off from northern Sweden for a short trip into space and back through Earth’s sheltering blanket of atmosphere. This amazing feat of engineering has become...
View ArticleA Different View of a Museum
I’ve always loved museums, especially natural history museums, but I’ve never managed to spend as much time wandering through them as I’d like. Fortunately, I recently discovered Shelf Life, a...
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Counting Chicks
It’s probably not a surprise that humans aren’t the only animals with a sense of numbers. While they’re probably not actually counting, a variety of species seem to be able to tell the number of...
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What Drove the Great Dying?
As long ago as forever and as far away as home, life was withering away wherever you looked. At the end of the Permian, around 250 million years ago, the creatures of Earth were devastated by an...
View ArticleThe Social Evolution Forum
I’m very pleased to be part of the Evolution Institute‘s new group blog, The Social Evolution Forum. SEF brings together a range of writers concerned with evolution in a broad sense, from ecology to...
View ArticleBack at last!
After a longer-than-intended hiatus, Inspiring Science is back! I’m sorry for disappearing without explanation or announcement and for staying away for so long. Truth be told, I didn’t decide to put...
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Book Review: Born Anxious
I enjoyed Born Anxious more than I expected to but less than I hoped. Written by Daniel Keating, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, it synthesizes over a decade of research on how...
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The Origins of Ant Agriculture
Ants have been farming for far longer than humans have existed. They discovered fungus farming around fifty or sixty million years ago in the wet rainforests of South America, and have continued...
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Fight back against junk food marketing
Most people realize that our food is loaded with sugar and that our eating habits are unhealthy, but it’s very hard to change them. Rather than simply accepting the situtation or complaining about it,...
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