Science | Portside

November 15, 2018

Tidbits - Nov. 15, 2018 - Reader Comments: 2018 elections - What Next; Proportional Representation; Police and White Supremacists; Anti-Gravity; Labor Solidarity; Rabbis Support Refugee Caravan; War in Gaza; FREE Film Showings; more

Portside

Reader Comments: 2018 elections - What Next; Proportional Representation; Police Links to White Supremacists; Anti-Gravity; Labor International Solidarity; Private Equity and Workers; Refugee Caravan; New War in Gaza; FREE Film Showings; and more....

November 9, 2018

Neuroscientists Make a Case Against Solitary Confinement

Dana G. Smith Scientific American

Prolonged social isolation can do severe, long-lasting damage to the brain

November 4, 2018

Apocalyptic Climate Reporting Completely Misses the Point

Daniel Aldana Cohen The Nation

Recent news commentary ignored the UN climate report’s cautiously optimistic findings.

October 28, 2018

Rare Genetic Sequences Illuminate Early Humans' History in Africa

Amy Maxmen Nature

As of 2016, about 80% of people in genetic studies were of European descent. We know humans originated in Africa but we don’t know what we did before we emigrated — we don't know our own history.

October 21, 2018

Forests Emerge as a Major Overlooked Climate Factor

Gabriel Popkin Quanta

New work at the intersection of atmospheric science and ecology is finding that forests can influence rainfall and climate from across a continent.

October 14, 2018

Meet the Trillions of Viruses That Make up Your Virome

David Pride and Chandrabali Ghose The Conversation

The race is on to find those viruses in our viromes that have already figured out how to protect us from the bad guys, while leaving the good bacteria intact.

October 12, 2018

Friday Nite Videos | October 12, 2018

Portside

Democalypse 2018 - Democrats Look for History-Making Victory in Georgia. I Shot the Sheriff | Playing For Change. Brazilian Elections. Is Ted Cruz "Tough As Texas"? Why Climate Change Is Making Hurricanes Worse.

Why Climate Change Is Making Hurricanes Worse

October 12, 2018

Hurricanes are powered by large bodies of warm water, and climate change is warming the oceans

October 7, 2018

'Physics Was Built by Men': CERN Suspends Scientist over Remarks

Angela Giuffrida and Mattha Busby The Guardian

Italian professor’s presentation deemed ‘unacceptable’ by Geneva research centre

September 30, 2018

Before His Early Death, Riemann Freed Geometry from Euclidean Prejudices

Tom Siegfried Science News

Riemann recast the mathematical world’s view of algebra, geometry and various mathematical subfields — and set the stage for the 20th century’s understanding of space and time.

Subscribe to Science