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2023/08/21

Judith beheading Holofernes

‘Large’ creature — with 20 arms — found lurking in Antarctic sea. It’s a new species

Scientists aboard a research vessel near Antarctica pulled their nets out of the chilly ocean water. Among their catch, they found a 20-armed creature with a distinctive body shape. It’s a new species...

Here’s why the metro Phoenix freeway system was mentioned on ‘Jeopardy!’

Interview: Treating Gun Violence as a Public Health Crisis

Undark: The United States has a high rate of gun violence and gun deaths compared to other industrialized countries. Why?

David Hemenway: The big reason is the guns and the gun laws. Evidence indicates that we are really an average high-income country in terms of non-gun violence and crime. So if you look at our overall rates of burglary, or robbery, or sexual assault, or car theft, we do better than some of the other high-income countries and we do worse than others...

Ever Wonder How Drugs Are Named? Read On

If a compound shows enough promise to make it through early experiments and head towards clinical trials, two naming processes begin to devise a generic name and a brand name for the future drug.

2023/08/18

The unsurprising confusion about ‘per capita’

A car cut me off on the highway the other day. The car was going nearly 100 mph.

Was the car a new Porsche 911 GT3 or a used Toyota Camry?

The thing is, there are more than 1,000 times as many Camrys on the road. But our instinct is to pick the vivid and distinctive answer.

The per capita crime rate in rural areas is often dramatically (sometimes five or ten times) higher than it is in most cities...

Todays Thought

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”

― Carl Jung