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...entries I found on forensic science, these two weren't even mentioned. Isn't that incredible? And yet when you go back into the period they're front-page news. They really rewrote forensic history. I think of myself these days as a really good friend to dead scientists. These guys were incredibly rewarding to me because they made such a difference and they were so forgotten - it's kind of a cautionary tale, actually. In our own narcissistic moments we can imagine that we're unforgettable, but there's not that many people that...
What do you think might surprise readers? Probably the role of government as mass poisoners during prohibition. I kept going, "Whoa." I didn't realize that had happened. How come that isn't public knowledge...
...Pliocene era, between 5 million and 3 million years ago, the average global temperature was about 7°F warmer than it is today, yet atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were about the same. If carbon dioxide were the sole factor in warming, that wouldn't make any sense. It isn't, of course; there are several other contributors, including the brightness of the sun and the location of the continents (whose positions dictate, among other things, where ice caps can form) - but these were all pretty much the same in the Pliocene as well...
...case isn't ironclad. "I think it's interesting," says Penn State climate modeler Ryan Sriver, who wrote a commentary in Nature. "I'm not totally convinced yet." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...could probably increase the number of high school seniors who are ready to go to college - and likely to make it to graduation - if we made the K-12 system more academically rigorous. But let's face it: college isn't for everyone, especially if it takes the form of four years of going to classes on a campus. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...