The Ed's Up #202
First, something a little special. Liz Neeley and I did a joint talk at the University of Wisconsin-Madison about the craft, purpose, and ethics of science...
The Ed's Up #201
This'll be a short edition because I've been at Madison for a full week as their science-writer-in-residence. But I wanted to send these stories out...
The Ed's Up #200
It's the 200th edition of The Ed's Up! When I started doing this, I honestly thought that maybe a handful of people and my mum--hi mum!--would sign up. So...
The Ed's Up #199
I'm back! Normal service will now resume after that three-week hiatus, with the usual stories interspersed with some fun dispatches from New Zealand (where...
The Ed's Up #198
How Mushrooms Became Magic "Why, for example, do mushrooms make a hallucinogen at all? It’s certainly not for our benefit: These mushrooms have been around...
The Ed's Up #197
I'm on Story Collider! "This thing is only slightly smaller than the jeep, and it is about a body length away from us. Its head is lowered, its horn is...
The Ed's Up #196
A Dinosaur So Well Preserved, It Looks Like a Statue "When we look at dinosaurs in museums, it takes imagination to plaster flesh and skin on top of the...
The Ed's Up #195
Decapitated Worms Get Better, See Again "For humans, decapitation is fatal. For a planarian flatworm, it’s a mild and temporary inconvenience. These small...
The Ed's Up #194
The Man Who Blew The Door Off The Microbial World "A few years before Norm Pace revolutionized the study of life on Earth, he almost lost his own life....
The Ed's Up #193
What Would It Take to Completely Sterilize the Earth? "In a paper delightfully titled “The Resilience of Life to Astrophysical Events,” David Sloan and...
The Ed's Up #192
How the Democratic Republic of the Congo Beat Ebola in 42 Days "As anti-climaxes go, it was a most welcome one. On May 11, the Ministry of Health of the...
The Ed's Up #181
This Common Butterfly Has an Extraordinary Sex Life I guarantee that this story about the sex life of the cabbage white butterf It features sperm packages of...
The Ed's Up #190
How a Philly Ob-Gyn Ended Up Delivering a Baby Gorilla "Last Friday, at 10:30 a.m., ob-gyn Rebekah McCurdy was seeing patients in her office when she got the...
The Ed's Up #189
Tiny Jumping Spiders Can See the Moon I'm not going to do the usual thing of quoting from this piece. I just urge you to read it--even if you're an...
The Ed's Up #188
The Spider Web That Gets Stronger When It Touches Insects "Raya Bott and colleagues at Aachen University in Germany have now shown that cribellate silk...
The Ed's Up #187
That Time the TSA Found a Scientist’s 3-D-Printed Mouse Penis (and other amusing tales of the intersection between science and airport security) "The model...
The Ed's Up #186
A Remote Paradise Island Is Now a Plastic Junkyard "Henderson should be pristine. It is uninhabited. Tourists don’t go there. There’s no one around to drop...
The Ed's Up #185
The Ed's Up took a brief break last week, but it's back now with a bumper edition that catches up on everything I wrote, and everything that's happened, in...
The Ed's Up #184
A New Study Says Humans Were in America 130,000 Years Ago “If the authors are correct, it would completely rewrite our best understanding of the peopling of...
The Ed's Up #183
How The March For Science Finally Found Its Voice "They marched for science, and at first, they did so quietly. On Saturday, as thousands of people started...