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Robby Berman
Contributing Writer
I’m a writer, musician, and father living in central New York with my wife, two daughters, one dog, two cats, and countless questions. I’m especially interested in animal rights, creativity, politics, the nature of things and time, and in making a worthwhile contribution. You can follow me @everyrobby.
Here is the most terrifying pterosaur ever discovered
Meet your new flying nightmare: Thapunngaka shawi.
Mathematics explains why non-conformists always end up looking alike
It’s called the “hipster effect,” and a study from Brandeis University mathematician Jonathan Touboul explains how it happens.
Hundreds of prehistoric paintings have been found in caves with barely enough oxygen to breathe
A new study says the reason cave paintings are in such remote caverns was the artists' search for transcendence.
World’s blackest black? Purdue made the world’s whitest white
In paint form, the world's "whitest white" reflects so much light that surfaces become cooler than the surrounding air.
This singing lemur is the first known nonhuman mammal with “categorical rhythm”
A 12-year study shows that these large lemurs have a sophisticated sense of rhythm.
The Vikings beat Columbus to North America by 471 years
The findings at L’Anse aux Meadows mark the the earliest known year by which human migration had encircled the planet.
Meet Mylodon, an ancient, 10-foot-long, meat-eating sloth
Long assumed to be a devoted vegetarian, ancient sloths were fine with some meat.