Kerri Connolly
Welp, Here's the First Awesome Science Meme of 2013
Because scientists is people, too. And sometimes people take long lunch breaks. #overlyhonestmethods
Relax, Underachievers: It's Not Your Brain, It's Your Poorly-Designed School
A new study from researchers in the UK suggests that the design of space around you has significant impact on how you learn. Which was totally why you ended up with that D+ in pre calculus, right?
Jakarta's Vertical City of the Future
Skyscrapers and mixed use towers aren’t anything new, though we’re constructing them bigger and higher all the time. But Peruri 88 is something else: a multi-level tower atop several other, distinct structures and units kitty-cornered below.
A Pig Named TJ Tabasco May Have Solved Our Organ Crisis
When we think of great scientific advancement, we usually call up a stock-image montage of great discoverers like Archimedes, Galileo, or Marie Curie, of Isaac Newton contemplating the laws of gravity, of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine, and NASA sending a...
Humans Are Getting Dumber Because City Life Is Too Easy
Remember that time you, like, totally owned that Zizek thesis in art semiotics? Or that degree you got in post-reunification Germanic studies? Or how you were – no big deal, guys – a National Merit Finalist? Yeah, well, hate to break it to you Einstein...
The New Star Wars Will Be Awesome, But It Will Also Suck
For fans of the beloved Star Wars series, the emotional fallout of Disney’s $4 billion dollar purchase of LucasFilm on Tuesday has been fraught with more angst than a middle schooler’s fanfiction.
Only Shitty Fans Deal In Absolutes
The new 'Star Wars' films, should they actually get made, are going to suck. They're also going to be pretty rad.
Zombies, the Apocalypse, and Alton Brown: The Motherboard Guide to the Bay Area Science Festival
If you're in the SF area and would be down to party like the undead, take a night hike for stargazing, or debate the fantastic ways the world might end, then you'll be over the moon to hear that this week marks the start of the annual Bay Area Science...
Oh, Great: Humans Can Cause Earthquakes
In May of last year, an earthquake in the southeast of Spain violently shook the region. In the aftermath of the event, which registered a 5.1 on the Richter scale, nine people died and dozens of others were injured. The event caught many residents off...
Ever-Changing Apartments of the Future Will Do Everything
Move over, McMansions. In the not-so-distant future, your studio apartment will also be your gym, your massive dining room, your home office, a yoga studio, house a guest room and function as pretty much any other kind of space you could imagine...