Lisa Taylor, of the Arizona State University Life Sciences Department, found these two jumping spiders of the genus Paraphidippus in Costa Rica. The male (on the right) is guarding the female. The males of this species have larger chelicerae (jaws) than the females, and these jaws may be used for fighting with other males over [...]
American Heart month is over, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take care of your ticker. Heart disease is still the number one cause of death in the United States. Take a few minutes and get to know this mysterious muscle in our tour of the human heart.
Since natural selection fails to explain why males or females of some species have ostentatious bodily decorations, Darwin suggested that these traits can arise through sexual selection. But since Darwin’s time, new discoveries about animal mating and courtship continue to be made all the time.
“Are the killer robots coming, or aren’t they?” Sharon Weinberger recently asked in the WIRED blog “Danger Room.” In her post, Weinberger plays down fears that an army of autonomous killing machines is in our not-so-distant future. Instead, she says, it is “autonomization of weapons” more generally that is the real pressing issue:
If we ban [...]
The second season of GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET is now broadcast in HD. This week, Roberto Alagna and Anna Netrebko star in “Roméo et Juliette,” conducted by Plácido Domingo.
Sergei Prokofiev’s fanciful musical tale “Peter and the Wolf” is given new life in this innovative new animated interpretation, which won the 2008 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.
April 1st marks the last opening day at Yankee Stadium. After the 2008 season, “the house that Ruth built” will become the house that Steinbrenner demolished. Back in 2005, a few months after the Yankees announced plans for a new stadium, David Hartman and Barry Lewis took A WALK THROUGH THE BRONX and asked former [...]
Booker, the focus of the 2005 Oscar-nominated P.O.V. doc, Street Fight, talked to Moyers about the issues he faces every day as mayor for the last 2 years, and how history now reflects/diverges from the government’s 1968 landmark report on inner-city poverty, the Kerner Report.
