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Laurie Vazquez
Contributing Writer
Laurie writes about science and technology for Popular Science, TIME, and FiatPhysica. Her passion is figuring out how things work and explaining them in plain English. She is always on the hunt to find and share the coolest ideas out there, and is excited to do that for BigThink. When she's not doing that, you’ll probably find her playing video games, her viola, or writing science fiction radio plays for KSVR’s Radio Theater Project. You can also find her on Twitter @mslauriewrites.
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The World Health Organization just reversed 25 years of warnings about coffee causing cancer - and unleashed a tidal wave of concern for tea drinkers.
Nobody likes sitting in a dentist’s chair, especially to have a cavity fixed. But why does that process take so long? Because fillings take forever to apply — and your […]
How many trees do you need to see before you feel relaxed? Less than you think.
A recent Supreme Court ruling declared that unintentional bias is not only real but harmful. That ruling not only validates the work of cognitive scientists, but paves the way for change.
The Global Challenges Foundation released a Global Catastrophic Risk Report last week. The results aren't pretty. Or surprising.
A recent study out of Australia has crunched data over a 29-year timespan and found no correlation between cellphone usage and brain cancer. Hooray!
The arctic research ship that captured the heart of the internet will NOT be named Boaty McBoatface. And the public is not happy about it.