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08 April 2013

08 April 2013, 04:56

Science Origin Stories, Evidence Based Parenting, and Science World Ads

Welcome to Double X Science for April5, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Jeanne Garbarino, biology editor. We have a double length podcast for you this week. We began...

07 April 2013, 22:31

How to Improve Your Mountain Bike Skills

Here are some great tips from Cecilia â€˜Cealâ€™ Potts who is a former professional cyclist. Her greatest cycling accomplishment was winning the Junior Cross Country Mountain Bike World Championships in...

07 April 2013, 10:00

How not to say the wrong thing

Have you ever said something crass you regret and wish you could take back? Millions of readers have learned this simple trick to avoid embarrassment and hurt feelings since it was first published in 2013.

06 April 2013, 02:17

Mediterranean diet - what it is, benefits

For years, studies of such diets have shown them to be associated with much lower rates of heart disease than are typically found in groups following "Western" diets. Used a control groupIn the study you are referring to...

06 April 2013, 02:17

Meatless Monday idea makes some sense

The current Meatless Monday was revived in 2003 by marketing professional Sid Lerner to promote public health awareness. When I was a kid, I trimmed the ends and pulled strings from boxes and boxes of snow peas at my family's restaurant in Oklahoma.

05 April 2013, 19:00

The War in Afghanistan: What Went Wrong?

The December 2001 Bonn Agreement proclaimed the international community’s determination to “end the tragic conflict in Afghanistan and promote national reconciliation, lasting peace, stability and respect for human rights in the country.” Over a decade later...

01 April 2013, 07:04

What Women Know, AP Issues Guidelines, and I Am Mental Illness

Welcome to Double X Science for March 29, 2013. This week's hosts are Adrienne Roehrich, chemistry editor, and Chris Gunter, education editor. Our topics cover posts of the week, including Women Know Something You Don't...

29 March 2013, 07:00

Close Encounters With Talmud

As an author and literary critic (including for Tablet), Adam Kirsch has written about Lionel Trilling, Benjamin Disraeli, Emily Dickinson, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among many others. This past August...

29 March 2013, 00:46

Progress and Warnings On U.S.-Africa Security Cooperation

This morning Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with a delegation of leaders from Africa to discuss security and democracy in Africa. The event with presidents and prime ministers from Malawi, Senegal...

27 March 2013, 19:07

Flight paths for a cloudy future

Feel the economic benefit

WHEN an Avro Lancastrian—a modified bomber with no gun turrets and a small amount of room for passengers—became the first scheduled flight to take off from Heathrow in 1946, the airport’s passenger terminal was just a row of tents.

26 March 2013, 23:37