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Will math help determine the Illiad's historic accuracy? Image credit: G. V. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/literally-psyched/2012/08/10/humanities-arent-a-science-stop-treating-them-like-one/

Humanities aren’t a science. Stop treating them like one. | Literally Psyched

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/05/14/what-are-sciences-ugliest-experiments/

What Are Science’s Ugliest Experiments? | Cross-Check

When I teach history of science at Stevens Institute of Technology, I devote plenty of time to science’s glories, the kinds of achievements that my buddy George Johnson wrote about in The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments (Alfred A.
So something like Larry Niven's architectural coral in Gift from Earth or Donald Moffitt's grown buildings in The Genesis Quest or that article Bruce Sterling did for Wired about a decade ago.

How to grow a biological city of the future

http://io9.com/5894571/how-to-grow-a-biological-city-of-the-future

New Scientist TV: How to survive the next 100,000 years

MacGregor Campbell, contributor Will humans be around in the deep future? http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/03/how-to-survive-the-next-100000-years.html

Why we have leap days

Warning: First, this is a somewhat modified repost from — oddly enough — four years ago. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/02/29/why-we-have-leap-days-2/

Smallest magnetic memory uses just 12 atoms - physics-math - 12 January 2012

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21351-smallest-magnetic-memory-uses-just-12-atoms.html Video: Data storage on an atomic level Talk about doing more with less.
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/12/annalee-newitz-of-io9-why-i-like-science/ A woolly mammoth sinks into the tar at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. (courtesy of flickr user jpeepz) Annalee Newitz has written about science and pop culture for Wired , Popular Science , New Scientist , the Washington Post and many others.

Annalee Newitz of io9: Why I Like Science

Are smart people ugly? The Explainer's 2011 Question of the Year

Jean-Paul Sartre and Socrates were known for their brains and not their looks — at least not the good kind

Weird, Rare Clouds and the Physics Behind Them | Wired Science

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How a Collapsing Scientific Hypothesis Ended in an Arrest | Wired Science

Video: Self-Guided Bullet Spots, Steers and Nails Its Target (UPDATED) | Danger Room

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JR Hott / Panhandle Helicopter Panama City Beach, Florida -- Fog rolls up along the shore of Panama City Beach, Florida on Feb. 5th, 2012. By Natalia Jimenez, NBC News

Spectacular 'cloud tsunami' rolls over Florida high-rise condos