Feb 18 How the Sticking Power of Mussels Can Advance Fetal Surgery Mussels and barnacles in the intertidal near Newquay, Cornwall, England. Photo by Mark A. Wilson. Department of Geology, The College of Wooster. BOSTON -- I learned this weekend that mussels, those brainless, hard-shell mollusks that and are found in… Continue reading
Feb 18 Weekly Poem: ‘Molyvos’ By Tom LeGro, Mary Jo Brooks Titos Patrikios is one of the leading poets of Greece. Born in 1928 to parents who were actors, he spent his first years in the United States as they toured with a Greek theater company. He returned to Greece, where… Continue reading
Feb 18 How to Maximize Social Security If Disabled and Other SS Questions By Laurence Kotlikoff Photo by Piotr Powietrzynski/Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security "mistakes" and his Social Security gotchas have prompted so many of you to write in… Continue reading
Feb 15 Arm Teachers or Ban Video Games? Students Debate in Google Hangout By Leah Clapman, Hari Sreenivasan The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has made many schools rethink their safety procedures. It has also sparked emotional debates about the roots of violence. To find out how the tragedy has affected young people, we… Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch Examining Cyber Security With Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Examining Cyber Security With Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano… Continue watching
Feb 15 Watch Shields and Gerson Discuss GOP Hold Up on Hagel, Looming Sequester Shields and Gerson Discuss GOP Hold Up on Hagel, Looming Sequester… Continue watching
Feb 15 Video Games: Violent, Yes. But Do They Make Us Violent? EmbedVideo(5745, 482, 304); Psychologist Brad Bushman and public health expert Cheryl Olson weigh in on the impact of violent video games on behavior. Watch the full report on PBS NewsHour Tuesday. I remember some years back when I… Continue reading
Feb 15 Know Your Terms: Shooting Stars, Dirty ‘Snowballs’ and Space Rocks on Earth Enjoying the bright Moon's absence from early morning skies, observers around the world reported lovely displays during the Perseid meteor shower, which peaked Aug. 11 and 12, 2012. Photo by Katsuhiro Mouri & Shuji Kobayashi/NASA. Asteroids, comets - they're… Continue reading
Feb 15 Coloradans Respond to Gun Violence Those shootings, combined with the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, have spurred lawmakers in Colorado to push for an array of gun legislation, which supporters believe could prevent future violence. The PBS NewsHour spoke to a… Continue reading
Feb 15 Napolitano Names Top Three Countries Where Cyber Attacks Against U.S. Are Launched By Larisa Epatko Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told NewsHour senior correspondent Ray Suarez on Friday that cyber attacks on the United States are on the rise, and internationally, three countries are the biggest sources: Iran, Russia and China. Continue reading