AltWeeklies Wire
The Reason Men Want Sex and Women Want to Cuddlenew
Humans have the most highly developed brains on the planet. Yet when it comes to sexual attraction and mate seeking, we're no different from our butt-sniffing animal cousins. Our passions are ruled by the same neurochemicals.
East Bay Express |
Susan Kuchinskas |
04-15-2009 |
Sex
Building a Better Hearing Aidnew
A California factory produces invisible device that could produce more natural hearing for people who attended too many rock concerts.
East Bay Express |
Susan Kuchinskas |
10-08-2008 |
Science
How Wild Mustard Could Be Used to Power Farms and Transitnew
In California's wine country, early spring paints the vineyards and fields with the chrome yellow of wild mustard. Its spicy leaves perk up a salad and infuse vinegar with a kick -- and oil from its seeds may soon power the buses of Monterey-Salinas Transit (MST).
East Bay Express |
Susan Kuchinskas |
09-10-2008 |
Environment
Bear Kaufman Says Being Carbon-Neutral Isn't Enoughnew
The senior at San Francisco State University's earth system science department has been experimenting with a scheme to return most of the carbon created by generating power to the ground in the form of charcoal, where it can improve the soil. His ultimate goal: A carbon-negative world.
East Bay Express |
Susan Kuchinskas |
08-27-2008 |
Environment
Love Isn't Enough to Heal Reactive Attachment Disordernew
Some traumatized orphans have brain damage that affection alone can't heal. So therapists are seeking new ways to simulate the nurturing they didn't get.
East Bay Express |
Susan Kuchinskas |
11-28-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Are Bees Too Busy?new
Could factory bee farming be behind the sudden decline in US populations?
East Bay Express |
Susan Kuchinskas |
08-01-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
