by Matt Davenport | May 13, 2014 | Posts
Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” and kittens with mittens, bright-colored Skittles and feeling all smitten, vibrations screaming from taut guitar strings, these are some things that I find pleasing. I have an emotional connection with each item on that list, but only one...
by Matt Davenport | Apr 18, 2014 | Posts
Last year was a banner year for brain research, at least financially speaking. Europe and the United States both launched what could amount to billion-dollar brain studies over the next decade. But before Europe’s Human Brain Project got running, there were rumors...
by Matt Davenport | Mar 11, 2014 | Posts
A version of this post can be found at the AGU GeoSpace Blog and at NASA Landsat Science. California’s persistent drought is forcing grape growers to keep a more-attentive-than-normal eye on their vines, as water shortages and elevated temperatures alter this year’s...
by Matt Davenport | Feb 5, 2014 | Posts
The first clue that I was wrong was that I had a knee-jerk reaction. Nu uh, Temple Grandin, I thought, you can too learn algebra! Sitting inside a gigantic fancy tent at the Hyatt Regency in Monterey, Calif., I soon learned that my impetuous disagreement was based on...
by Matt Davenport | Nov 22, 2013 | Posts
Today, the Food and Drug Administration will close down the outside comment period on changes proposed to the Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA. Field mice could give a crap. One of the proposed changes would establish rules to minimize the risk of crops becoming...
by Matt Davenport | Oct 30, 2013 | Posts
“You realize I’m sending you into that mosh pit by yourself, right?” my editor asked while we waited outside a giant white tent. I thought mosh pit was a little severe. The tent was more reminiscent of an overcrowded polka tent I had once worked in during an...
