Share this on WhatsApp This is Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on May 29, 2020. I’m Steve Mirsky. On this episode: SAPOLSKY CLIP That’s Robert Sapolsky. He’s a professor of biology, neurology, and neurosurgery at Stanford University. He’s also a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. In the lab he’s a neurobiologist who […]
Share this on WhatsApp 1970 A Lunar “Tablespoonful” “In the broad, flat lunar maria, or ‘seas’ (such as Mare Tranquillitatis, the site of the Apollo 11 manned landing), the depths of craters that have reached bedrock indicate a regolith thickness of from five to 10 meters. Thus the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and […]
Share this on WhatsApp When COVID-19 hit the U.S., most of us became homebodies. Journalist Emily Anthes was thus propitious in the timing of her new book, The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness (Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux). You may distract yourself from cabin fever by […]