Opinion Archive | March 2014

Filter (88 articles)

Year:

Month:

March 30th
- To Live Longer We Have to Change Outdated Ideas of What It Means to Grow Old (Op-Ed)
- Even the Innocent Should Worry About Sex Offender Apps (Op-Ed)
March 29th
- It's Time to Extend Routine Space Operations to the Moon (Op-Ed)
- How Two Women Brought a Sea Change to Conservation (Op-Ed)
- Explainer: How Do Cyclists Reach Super Fast Speeds?
- Explainer: How are IPCC Reports Written?
March 28th
- Being Gay Is Natural: Just Ask Bonobos (Op-Ed)
- Alcoholics Anonymous, the 12-Step Fellowship: A Modern Miracle (Op-Ed)
- Launching the Next Wave of Rocket Builders (Op-Ed)
- Why Coastal Winds Could Power Every U.S. Home, and Car (Op-Ed)
- Air Pollution Deaths Should Not Be a Partisan Issue (Op-Ed)
- Hollywood Makes Mental Health an A-List Cause (Op-Ed)
- There's Just One Thing Stopping Killer Shrimp from Wreaking Even More Havoc
- Australia Should Enlist Dingoes to Control Invasive Species (Op-Ed)
March 27th
- Two Healthy Lions, and Their Cubs, "Zoothanized" … Why? (Op-Ed)
- Why the Bizarre Ocean Dandelion is Like an Ant Colony on Steroids
- Infection Control: Why Doctors Over-Prescribe Antibiotics (Op-Ed)
March 26th
- Developing World Boasts Leading Women Conservationists (Op-Ed)
- Lawsuit Could Save Thousands of Sea Turtles (Op-Ed)
- Once Endangered, Bald Eagle Populations Soar
- Reaction to No Makeup Selfies Reveals How Most of Us Really Feel About Cosmetics (Op-Ed)
- Why Chocolate Really is the Secret to Happiness (Op-Ed)
March 25th
- Closing Clean Water Act Loophole Will Protect Drinking Water and Benefit Bathers and Breweries Alike (Op-Ed)
- We Don't Care About How Farm Animals Live, So Why Do We Care How They Die? (Op-Ed)
- Why Can’t a Man Think Like a Woman, and a Woman Think Like a Man? (Op-Ed)
- Capturing Halley's Comet: An Astronomy Tale
March 23rd
- We'll Never Know if Statins are Safe While Commercial Interests Come First (Op-Ed)
- It's Harder to Fake a Sickie if the Doctor's a Machine (Op-Ed)
March 22nd
- California’s Recycling Target Could Create 110,000 New Jobs (Op-Ed)
- Animals Could Help Reveal Why Humans Fall for Illusions (Op-Ed)
- Can Backpacking Flies Rescue Queensland's Farmers? (Op-Ed)
March 21st
- Art, As It Transforms the Environment
- Can Animals Be Too Happy, or Have Too Much Fun? (Op-Ed)
- Invertebrates Inject a Bit of Romance During Sex – By Stabbing Each Other (Op-Ed)
- Cutting Power-Plant Carbon Could Save U.S. $60 Billion by 2020 (Op-Ed)
- After Flight MH370 is Found, What Happens Next? (Op-Ed)
March 20th
- Power To The People? Everyone Can Do Citizen Science (Op-Ed)
- Modern Family (Planning) for Animals (Op-Ed)
- A Crocodile Hunt, Redefined, in Southeastern Cuba (Op-Ed)
- In the Digital Age, the Humanities Can Afford to Go On the Offensive
- Can Bleach Help Solve the Origin of Life in the Primordial Soup? (Op-Ed)
March 19th
- Why Did Congress Just Sink Flood Insurance Reform? (Op-Ed)
- World's Most Advanced Computers Unravel the Universe's Most Primitive Processes (Op-Ed)
- Are Saturated Fats as Bad as We Have Been Led to Believe? (Op-Ed)
- Is There About to be a Dash for Antarctica's Resources? (Op-Ed)
March 18th
- The Printed Face is Just the Beginning of a 3D Revolution (Op-Ed)
- The End is Nigh for Windows XP: Are You Ready? (Op-Ed)
March 15th
- The Gorgeous, Dangerous World Below Antarctic Ice (Op-Ed)
- Guacamole and Coke are Latest Victims of a Warming Planet (Op-Ed)
- Why Wait for New Food Labels to Curb Childhood Obesity? (Op-Ed)
- St. Patrick's Day Can Help Your Kids Eat Veggies (Op-Ed)
- Is Brain Research Entering a Golden Age? (Op-Ed)
- The Incredible Tech Behind Paralympian Daredevil Stunts (Op-Ed)
- We Still Can't Get Enough Pi ... But Why? (Op-Ed)
March 14th
- The Mystery of the Missing Methane (Op-Ed)
- The Oceans, and Job Hunters, Can Benefit from Recycling Boom (Op-Ed)
- Go Ahead, Dive into a Chocolate Diet (Op-Ed)
- Unpicking the Autism Puzzle by Linking Empathy to Reward (Op-Ed)
- Learning to Read and Write is a Triumph of Education Over Evolution (Op-Ed)
March 13th
- A No-Fly List No One Bothers to Check (Op-Ed)
- World Wide Web is Going Strong After 25 years, but the Internet isn't Holding Up (Op-Ed)
- Air Crash Investigation: How the Search for Flight MH370 is Run (Op-Ed)
March 12th
- Stepping up Conservation in Fiji — in Stilettos (Op-Ed)
- Can Rich Forests Survive as Energy Booms? (Op-Ed)
- Brain Scans are Fascinating but Behavior Tells Us More About the Mind (Op-Ed)
- Morphing is One Way to Make Aircraft More Efficient (Op-Ed)
March 11th
- Do Zoos Really Teach Visitors Anything? (Op-Ed)
- There Are Fewer Than 100 Black Professors in Britain – Why?
- Chill Out, Cool Down ... Athlete Anxiety at the Winter Games
March 10th
- FEMA's New NYC Flood Maps Will Soon Be Out-of-Date (Op-Ed)
- Black-market Lottery: Organ Donation and the International Transplant Trade (Op-Ed)
- Sea Cucumbers are So Popular in Asia They Face Extinction
- Why are Some Snakes So Venomous?
March 8th
- Momentum Builds for Deforestation-Free Palm Oil (Op-Ed)
- For 25 Years, Another's Heart has Beat in His Chest
March 7th
- Ellen's Oscar Tweet Turns into Huge Charity Gift (Op-Ed)
- U.S. 'Fukushima' May Only be a Matter of Time (Op-Ed)
March 6th
- An Artistic Climate Transforms Data into Art (Op-Ed)
- Hard Evidence: How Will the 2014 World Cup Ball Swerve? (Op-Ed)
- Using Lasers to Cut a Diamond Apart Atom by Atom
March 5th
- Mexico and U.S. Begin Dam Releases to Restore Colorado River (Op-Ed)
- How Harry Potter Magic Turned Gravity into Oscar Gold (Op-Ed)
- Bright Ideas Come When People Dare to Take Risks (Op-Ed)
March 4th
- Space Research Pays for Itself, but Inspires Fewer People (Op-Ed)
- A Self-Destructing Phone Isn't the Last Word in Security (Op-Ed)
- War Robots and The 2014 World Cup – Defenders Off the Field (Op-Ed)
March 1st
- Bone Replacements and Heart Monitors Spur Health Revolution in Open Source 3D Printing (Op-Ed)
- Why We Do Dumb Things on Smartphones (Op-Ed)