Jan 5Tom Lovejoy on Optimism for the PlanetBy Andrew Howley Quick: look out the window. Is the world still there? Got some trees? A couple of birds? A few puffy clouds? Good. Now sit for a minute and enjoy it. People of every generation and especially over the past few decades have made efforts large and small…Tom Lovejoy7 min read
Dec 16, 2019Giving the Olinguito the 19th-Century-Style Sketchbook TreatmentDrawn from the same skulls and skins that led National Geographic Explorer Kristofer Helgen to realize he’d found an unknown species of mammal, these sketches aim to reveal the science and the beauty of the newly described “olinguito.” Knowing that Kris and the specimens were nearby at the Smithsonian Institution…Art1 min read
Dec 11, 2019Walking Across the Desert With Mike FaySome scientific expeditions require travel to faraway lands, large teams, and hundreds of pounds of supplies. This is not one of those expeditions. Equipped with little more than the sandals on his feet, the pack on his back, a notebook and some pencils, Mike Fay went on a week-long, 70-mile…Desert6 min read
Apr 2, 2019NeanderSmalls: Were Cave Kids Artists, Too?A series of eye-opening discoveries has taken the scientific opinion of whether Neanderthals made art from an authoritative “no” to an impressed “yes!” Could a new approach reveal even more about our closest hominin relatives? Studies in February of 2018 gave ages of 65,000 years to cave art in Spain…Science8 min read
Aug 16, 2016Instead of Destroying Earth, CERN’s Hadron Collider Inspires Epic RunA tale of brotherhood, sport, and SCIENCE! In the unassuming countryside outside Geneva, Switzerland, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider gives particles the world’s largest racetrack to zip around. It’s about 17.5 miles in circumference, only 2 inches wide, and varyingly 50 to 100 feet underground, depending on the height of the…Switzerland9 min read
