AltWeeklies Wire
Thomas Beattie is Not the First Pregnant Mannew
So why's he getting all the credit, and why now?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
04-09-2008 |
Sex
Maybe All Clones Should be Labelednew
Some are debating whether they will eat cloned meat, but do they know a fertility researcher and a biotech company investor are busy cloning themselves?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
01-23-2008 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Humans Are Dogs & Even Monkeys Can Do Mathnew
Two new studies of animal intelligence caught my attention last week because they prove that humans are no better than dogs and monkeys. This is something I've always felt to be true on an anecdotal level, and now cognitive science backs me up.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
12-19-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Carbon Indulgencesnew
Carbon offset fees may be new, but the underlying notion goes back to the Middle Ages, when the Catholic Church sold wealthy people indulgences to offset the spiritual cost of their sins and assure a place for them in heaven. And yet at least the kids in 1380 knew that indulgences were bullshit.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
11-07-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Green Satellites are Dyingnew
Downsizing the climate sensor networks could be bad news for all of us.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
09-20-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Future of Papernew
Post-print media, paper will survive -- but will print journalists?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
06-27-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
This is Not Progressnew
I can't stop thinking about the Antikythera Mechanism.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
12-06-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
When Sex Sucksnew
In the genetic war between the sexes, genes that are good for one sex aren't necessarily good for the opposite-sex children who inherit them.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
11-09-2006 |
Sex
Chumby!new
This quasi-plush animal is in fact a hardware prototype of a cute little wi-fi thing that's designed to "think."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
09-20-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Verizon's Tubesnew
Sen. Ted Stevens is deciding the future of Internet regulation -- this is a guy who thinks that he received "an Internet" yesterday, and that it was made of "tubes."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
07-12-2006 |
Media
Tags: net, neutrality
Build Your TV!new
As the FCC and the entertainment biz get ready to end home recording as we know it, a bunch of radical geeks are working on a solution or two.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
03-02-2005 |
Media
