by Patricia Waldron | May 5, 2014 | Posts
When a child visits a pediatric neurologist with bad headaches, some doctors will have the child draw a picture the headache. These drawings can be surprisingly telling about the cause of the headaches, especially when the child suffers from migraine. The following...
by Patricia Waldron | Apr 14, 2014 | Posts
Europe has a long history of bear hunting, for meat, fur, bounty and sport. Hundreds of years of hunting had wiped out bears in most of the countries. Even today, tourists can still go on trophy hunts in parts of Eastern European. But it isn’t all bad news for bears....
by Patricia Waldron | Feb 28, 2014 | Posts
Stacy Lopresti-Goodman, a psychologist the Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, studies individuals who have lived in solitary confinement, and who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder. But these individuals aren’t human – they’re chimpanzees who lived in...
by Patricia Waldron | Feb 10, 2014 | Posts
A version of this post can be found at the AGU GeoSpace blog. The polar vortex dropped the jet stream and made large parts of the country miserable this year with freezing cold Arctic air. But, air temperatures over much of the Arctic were above average, and...
by Patricia Waldron | Nov 25, 2013 | Posts
A monster lurks in Watsonville, California. It can poison your dog, give you diarrhea, and cause cancer in sea otters. The mayhem is unintentional – the monster, a microscopic bacterium, is just trying to make a living. But while the microbe thrives in the warm...
by Patricia Waldron | Oct 24, 2013 | Posts
A jogger found the bloodstained and filthy body of Kristopher Olinger by the side of the road one September morning in 1997. The last time anyone saw the 17-year-old from Pacific Grove, CA was at midnight, when he went out to photograph the ocean for a school project....
