Enter your email address powered by TinyLetter Science Fact The materials you need to study past climates: Ice cores, stalactites, trees rings…BAT POOP. Yes. Scientists can study the nitrogen in ancient deep crap cores to learn about what the climate was like hundreds of years ago. Delicious.
Women – colleagues and friends and acquaintances and mentees – sometimes tell me about the things that hold them back, that bother them in the workplace and in life. And there’s one refrain I keep hearing. Over cocktails or coffee or dinner or tea. In group chats and personal heart-to-hearts. A refrain that sticks with […]
Science Fact We never put sunscreen on our hair, right? Well, why don’t we ever get burned there? Does hair or a beard block the sun? And if so, how much? Well to find out some scientists put beards on mannequins in the sun. You know, for science. And it turns out beards make good sunblock! […]
Science Fact Archeologists who dig up humans and animals sometimes wonder if the humans ate the animals nearby. But to find, out they’d need to know what it looks like when a person eats, say, a whole rodent and it comes out the other end. How to know for sure? Well, you need to eat a […]
Want a taste of what’s in my newsletter? Here’s this week’s fun science fact! Science Fact When bedbugs can’t feast on delicious humans, they will hunt down and hang in their dirty laundry. There are not enough nopes for this one. Scientists found that bedbugs are attracted to the eau d’human on worn clothes when no people […]