Tag: nature
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State education funding is in chaos
[ad_1] GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org The problem with taxes is that most people don’t know how taxes work. Taxes by their very nature create winners and losers, and usually more losers than winners. But because the majority of people don’t understand the finer points of taxation, states have an upside-down system for one of their biggest ... -
Scott Hollifield: Now for the latest science news | Columnist
[ad_1] Scott Holyfield Keep up with the latest scientific advances impacting our lives as talented and dedicated researchers publish their findings around the clock, on multiple platforms and in many languages we don’t understand. What should I do to It’s hard, especially when we live in an age where it’s easy to get distracted by ... -
[COLUMN] Journalist Janet Nepales’ head-turning book on ‘FASHION. Filipino. Hollywood. The World’ —
[ad_1] Sthanlee Mirador, Bessie Badilla, Alan del Rosario, David Tupaz (back row); Janet Nepales, Michael Cinco and Alexis “Bong” Monsanto Taken by Ruben V. Nepales at Lisa Lew’s Hollywood residence “Creative people are critical: they don’t stop with the given and the (supposedly) “obvious.” They are imaginative. They make a habit of thinking in more ... -
Untangling the network effects of productivity and prominence among scientists
[ad_1] We begin by extracting pairs of coauthors defined across 20.0 million research articles in the Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) database since 195048,49, across six STEM fields: biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, medicine, and physics. To better isolate the most important network connections, we focus on the coauthorship links defined by the first and last ... -
Scott Hollifield: Now for the latest science news | Columnist
[ad_1] Scott Holyfield The latest science that impacts our lives, with talented and dedicated researchers working around the clock and publishing their results on multiple platforms and in many languages we don’t understand. How can we keep up with technological progress? It’s hard, especially when we live in an age where it’s easy to get ... -
A dedicated unfollower of fashion
[ad_1] On a brisk morning in January 2022, a smattering of eminent guests like Kanye West and Naomi Campbell lined the gilded vestibule of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Paris following a fashion show, waiting to be received by Daniel Roseberry. Unpretentiously dressed in a denim overshirt, a white shirt under a navy cardigan, navy ... -
Scientific image award goes to fly infected with zombie fungus
[ad_1] The winners of the second BioMed Central Ecology and Evolution Image Competition have been announced. They are incredibly scary. The winning image shows the fruiting body of a parasitic fungus erupting from a fly’s body in Peru’s Tambopata National Reserve and was taken by Roberto García-Roa of the University of Valencia, Spain. “The image ... -
we are not ready for volcanoes
[ad_1] Humans have marveled at the incredible power of volcanoes for centuries. Earlier this month, tourists flocked to Iceland to see lava flowing from a fissure eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula. The so-called ‘Land of Fire and Ice’ experienced a surge in tourist numbers after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption. Despite their magnetic attraction, volcanic eruptions ...
