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It’s something I rarely talk about, but this year is my 10th anniversary of being vegetarian. I don’t know exactly when, because it was a very gradual process. I started…

I’ve never been to India, but I did change planes at the airport in Delhi on my way to Kathmandu this summer. Delhi airport looks like every other major international…

(This post was previously hosted on my old blog (now offline) and is published in print in The Best Science Writing Online 2012) “Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings…

By far the most frequently asked question about SciBarCamb (or about SciBarCamp with a p) is “Bar?” and the answer is long. So long, that it takes several minutes to…

Forget about art and science – this century has a whole new two world problem: science and technology It’s been nagging me for a while – at science online conferences…

I had the strangest dream last night. I don’t remember all of it, but there was a skeleton of a dinosaur with a fake nose and flamingos on it, and…