Inside Thirteen blogger: Bob Morris, Producer
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July 3rd, 2008 at 7:22 pm
In February, NATURE fans voted for their favorite episodes. Now, the results are in!
Watch the top nine viewer picks on NATURE this summer. Your favorite episodes hit the airwaves each …
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
This weekend, nearly every community in America stages a fireworks display. So is there a cumulative effect on the environment from the chemicals exploded into our atmosphere?
It’s more of …
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:51 am
What archaeologist Dennis Jenkins found in the Paisley Caves in south central Oregon may turn on its head the theory of how and when the first people came to North America.
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 am
More than a decade after antiretroviral treatments for HIV first debuted, HIV mortality rates have declined dramatically and they continue to drop in countries where patients have access to the drugs. Read more…
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 am
Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the ethical issues raised by commercial genetic testing. Listen to the interview…
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 am
GREAT LODGES OF THE NATIONAL PARKS visits Glacier Bay in Alaska, where rivers of ice march into the ocean and bears fish from the water’s edge. Watch a clip:
July 1st, 2008 at 10:10 am
Oil and all the ramifications of rising prices continue to be a source of international urgency. On Thursday, June 26, oil went beyond $140 a barrel before closing slightly lower. …
June 30th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
George Church of Harvard Medical School hopes to recruit 100,000 people and sequence the DNA of each and every one. With that many genomes, combined with personal information, Church believes we’ll have a chance of getting at the root causes of common diseases and figuring out how to prevent them. Watch the video…
June 30th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
On June 30, 1908, the skies in a remote area of Siberia split open, and havoc rained on the earth for hundreds of miles in every direction. The Tunguska event …
June 27th, 2008 at 10:36 am
In April, two lions died in the Mara Reserve on the border of Kenya and Tanzania shortly after eating contaminated hippo meat. According to an annotated summary in the Mara …
The Waterfalls and New York City
Home Delivery: The Cases of Japan and Scandinavia
The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, surveys the past, present and future of the...
Randi Weingarten Elected AFT President
Randi Weingarten was elected president of the American Federation of Teachers in Chicago on July 14, 2008. The following is...
