Wrath Goes Viral
This is Part 1 and Part 2 of our podcast coverage of the event Wrath Goes Viral, the first in our Science and the Seven Deadly Sins series. In this [...]
Mentor Profile: Dr. Kristy Lamb
Mentor profile: Dr. Kristy Lamb Education: BS, Microbiology, North Carolina State University, 2006 BA, The Public Understanding of Science, North Carolina State University, 2006 MPhil, Genetics, Yale University, 2009 PhD, [...]
Academy and State Department Announce First Cohort of NeXXt Scholars
The New York Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State, has announced that 12 international women and 12 American women will serve as its first cohort [...]
My Research Trip to China
I recently returned from a research trip to China. It was great, the trip of a lifetime, but I’m happy to be done with the lack of clean drinking [...]
A Thought for Food: Rock Steady
Salt is one of the most important and versatile ingredients in foods around the world. We like it, we need it, but are we getting too much of it these [...]
Ways to get from Here to There…
New York City. The Big Apple. The City that Never Sleeps. It’s hard to believe that just over two hundred years ago, the skyscrapers and subways we see today were [...]
Sugar in the morning…
The battle of wills to resist the last cupcake isn’t the only one being waged over sugar. In fact, sugar—or fructose to be more precise—is one of the most hotly [...]
Use Science to Make the World Better
I was speaking to a colleague the other day, who had been in a car accident that was caused by another car breaking a traffic law. Luckily she was not [...]
Linguistic Limitations
Someone in my earshot remarked, not many weeks ago, that surely some languages are better than others because they can express more advanced ideas, like those in modern science. More [...]
Opting Out of Teaching
In January 2011, the Academy hosted an event on The Future of Science Education in New York with leading New York education policy makers. Members of the audience – mostly [...]
