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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.
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The ridiculousness of Hollywood science when it comes to memory loss.
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle shares the wonder of experiencing the ocean’s creatures in the wild.
Programmers at MIT publish A.I.-generated scary images scary for Halloween.
We should be exploring the oceans as seriously as we explore space.
Tesla's Elon Musk gives a grave warning to those trying to hold back self-driving car technology. According to him, we have it all backwards.
A small, icy planet with a weirdly elliptical orbit has been discovered beyond Pluto.
Geneticists and cave paintings identify a lost species they puckishly name the "Higgs bison."
Meteorologist Cliff Mass explains why and how U.S. weather forecasting is falling behind.
Researchers video chimpanzee mothers teaching their kids how to use tools.
Though the logic of the Nobel committee is pretty easy to glean when it comes to the sciences, in other, less-defined categories, it surprises on a fairly regular basis.
A brain-computer music interface system allows four patients to compose their own string quartet.
An explanation of why clean coal is just fiction, or at best a climate-change denier’s fantasy.
Edward Slingerland offers two possible ways to sneak up on becoming effortless without making a direct effort to do so.
Christina Smolke, a brilliant Stanford scientist, has engineered yeast that can produce opiates without poppies.
Two billionaires are apparently funding research into how we can escape the simulation they believe we’re trapped in.
A second major California fault line has been found near the San Andreas Fault.
New research reveals the logic behind murder in old Icelandic Viking settlements.
Two strange Oliver Sacks stories about the mind and music from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.
An under-5-minute explanation of how you make a particle accelerators.
Our love affair with profanity may be cultural or it may be neurological.