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Fluid mechanics helps explain the flow of fluids and, by analogy, people moving through crowds.

When Lars Larson asked about climate solutions, I explained the essence of my recent article: an innovative geoengineering solution that should be tried: Large balloons at high altitudes to reflect sunlight, mimicking the cooling effects of volcan

Could this be true?

Although the election is now “over,” its downstream fallout will continue for some time. Those of us engaged in communicating science will have to live with the impact of those who did and did not endorse.

Where to start here? The possibilities are endless. There is some real (and strange) medicine in this article as well as a treasure trove of chances to allow me to express my dominant juvenile humor allele. Let's start there.

Given the title, I was initially opposed to the thesis, but I must admit the author won me over.

“Without Aristotle’s Physics, there would have been no Galileo.” - Martin Heidegger

Every day, we make choices, often tradeoffs involving numbers, scores, or ratings. Countless websites ask us to quantify our experiences by using likes and stars.

If you're not perpetually online in the health space, you may have missed a scuff-up between several science communicators and followers of Vani Hari, aka The Food Babe.

My colleague Barbara Pfeffer Billauer and I wrote in August about recent Supreme Court decisions that produced sweeping chang