How do birds migrate?
The essential skills of bird migration are orientation — knowing north from south, and east from west — and navigation, having some sort of “map” to establish the location you’re aiming for, says...
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Social Network
Social network map If you were to draw lines representing your social connections to all your friends, your friends’ friends, and your friends’ friends’ friends, what would it look like? For Jeffrey...
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Greenhouse gas maps
Counting warming at the local scale What’s making greenhouse gas pollution in your city? Until now, that’s been a gnarly problem: measurement aircraft — even scientific drones — are expensive, and a...
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Odder than odd!
In the dark days of winter… We need a pick-me-up. Let’s take a guided tour of some amazing — and actually important — science results from the year just passed. What is the unseen levy of leaning? Who...
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On the Map
On the Map Simon Garfield • Gotham Books, NY, 2013, 464 pp. Maps — the two-dimensional representation of our 3-D world — get a loving requiem that starts in the dust (literally: the first maps were...
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