Mar 29 Swarms of Cicadas to Invade Eastern U.S. If you live along the mid-Atlantic from North Carolina to Connecticut, get ready to witness the loud and "spectacular" mating ritual of the cicadas. Photo by Michael Raupp. Sometime around Memorial Day, in the declining hours of daylight, swarms… Continue reading
Mar 28 Watch In School, Babies Teach Older Children to Consider Feelings and Needs of Others In School, Babies Teach Older Children to Consider Feelings and Needs of Others… Continue watching
Mar 28 Bringing Babies to the Classroom to Teach Empathy, Prevent Bullying Incidents of bullying in schools across the U.S. not only have an effect on students' emotional state, they can also have school wide ramifications. PBS NewsHour's American Graduate team recently traveled to Seattle to profile one program that works on… Continue reading
Mar 26 ‘The World Needs You, Badly,’ Edward O. Wilson Tells Young Scientists Biologist Edward O. Wilson studies fire ants at Harvard University on Sept. 8, 1975. Photo by Hugh Patrick Brown/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Edward O. Wilson's "Letters to a Young Scientist" arrived in the mail this week. Continue reading
Mar 22 Shields and Brooks on Congressional Escapes, March Madness Brackets By Hari Sreenivasan We start the Doubleheader with discussion about how Congress always scrambles to escape before the "good" holidays. Then syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks turn to their strategies for picking the big winners… Continue reading
Mar 22 Watch Shields, Brooks on Congressional Escapes and March Madness Shields and Brooks on Congressional Escapes and Winning March Madness Brackets… Continue watching
Mar 22 Watch Shields and Brooks on Obama in the Mideast, GOP in Overhaul Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss bipartisan compromise in Congress on the budget, an election postmortem for the Republican party, President Barack Obama's "soaring rhetoric" and "realistic policies" for the Mideast and the 10th… Continue watching
Mar 22 Big Bang Afterglow Reveals Older Universe, More Matter, Slower Expansion A new map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the precision by the Planck mission. Image by ESA and the Planck Collaboration. You may have seen this map, which has been making the rounds since… Continue reading
Mar 21 Progress on Immigration Reform Leaves Rep. Gutierrez Elated and Wary Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., center at the podium, has long advocated for the comprehensive immigration reform. In November 2012, the representative stood with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and announced a declaration of nine principles for comprehensive… Continue reading
Mar 19 Discovering Higgs Boson: the Thrill and Drama of the Waiting Game This proton-proton collision event, from the CMS experiment at CERN, shows characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson. Photo by CERN. Following last week's major announcement at CERN, I finally had time to sit down and… Continue reading