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The Labyrinthine World of Animal Genitals
Dutch evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen plumbs the depths of nature's nether regions.
Lex Berko
5.1.14
Motherboard Blog
A Visual Consideration of How We Relate to Death
Courtesy the Wellcome Library's new open-access repository of historical imagery.
Lex Berko
1.20.14
Motherboard Blog
Just 4 Percent of Reading Americans Read E-Books Exclusively
Checking in on our headline-defying reading habits.
Lex Berko
1.17.14
Motherboard Blog
Why We Need Carnivores
Gory eating habits aside, we have a tendency to underestimate the ecological value of carnivores. We shouldn't.
Lex Berko
1.9.14
Motherboard Blog
The Mathematical Reality of Reality: An Interview with Cosmologist Max Tegmark
According to a new book by cosmologist and MIT professor of physics Max Tegmark, the Universe is a giant mathematical object.
Lex Berko
1.6.14
Motherboard Blog
The Scrolls Vesuvius Torched Over 1,000 Years Ago Are Readable Again
We're in a Golden Age of digitization.
Lex Berko
12.20.13
Motherboard Blog
Too Soon: The Science Behind Your Regrettable Jokes
It’s also a matter of “too late.”
Lex Berko
12.19.13
Motherboard Blog
How We Retweet Science
We like studies that tell us about ourselves and world events, but hey, we also like a good laugh.
Lex Berko
12.18.13
Motherboard Blog
Polynesians Used Binary Long Before Europeans
Hundreds of years before computers did, too.
Lex Berko
12.16.13
Motherboard Blog
Ancient Chinese Bones Help Explain Why Cats Like Us
Bone fragments illuminate an early era of cat domestication.
Lex Berko
12.16.13
Motherboard Blog
The Repressed Debate Over Repressed Memories Returns
The "memory wars" aren't over.
Lex Berko
12.14.13
Motherboard Blog
What Every Place on Earth Sounds Like
It's like crowdsourcing ambience.
Lex Berko
12.12.13
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