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“Don’t gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG
Global Warming Through Dinosaur Farts
Sauropods like Apatosaurus released enough of the greenhouse gas methane to warm the Mesozoic era, global warming through dinosaur farts.
Fighting the Internal Editor and Searching for Flow in Writing
Finding time to write is challenging. I squeeze words and sentences—and if I’m lucky, the occasional paragraph—into the spaces that occupy my day in between writing articles about science topics like yogurt and testicles, or dinosaurs farts, or the daily tasks of...
Think Different: Finding Creativity Through Balance
Creativity will save the world. To business leaders, this means more than just creating new works of art or Pulitzer Prize winning literature. The global economy depends upon people and businesses thinking differently, according to Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine....
Mad Cow Disease: What’s Your Risk?
The US Department of Agriculture confirmed the nation’s fourth case of mad cow disease on Apr. 24. In a statement, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack reassured Americans that the food supply is safe. "The beef and dairy in the American food supply is safe and USDA...
White Killer Whale Spotted For First Time in Wild
"There she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!" By now, Captain Ahab is stirring in his grave at reports of a white killer whale—or orca—spotted off the coast of Kamchatka in eastern Russia. But this isn’t the fictitious white sperm whale of Herman...
The Truth About Alcohol’s Creative Powers
Creativity is the bread and butter of fiction writers. Well, that, and alcohol. Many great writers of the twentieth century struggled with alcohol, including Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, and Jack Kerouac. The prevalence of alcohol in writers’ lives is so strong...