• Science

    Science Confirms the Obvious: It’s Healthier to Take the Stairs

    By Nicole Dyer Posted on 3.19.2008 0 Comments

    When I went from footloose freelancer to sessile nine-to-fiver in a huge building, I made a rule: unless an open elevator was waiting, always take the stairs. This is because I knew it was the healthy thing to do. Go figure—Im right, says a new JAMA study. But not only does the research show that taking fewer steps is unhealthy, it can actually cause disease.

  • Science

    Blue Light Special For Tired Truckers

    By Megan Miller Posted on 3.18.2008 6 Comments

    Bye-bye, NoDoz.

  • The Environment

    Greener Buildings for Cleaner Air

    By Matt Ransford Posted on 3.18.2008 8 Comments

    I live in a hundred year-old house where most everything is original: the windows (drafty), the walls (uninsulated), the furnace (burns oil). I need only look at my heating bill every month to deduce what the Commission for Environmental Cooperation has determined through a two-year study—homes and office buildings in North America account for over one-third of the continent's greenhouse gas emissions. They are terribly inefficient.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    The Super Mario Multiverse

    By Abby Seiff Posted on 3.18.2008 10 Comments

    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/general_sciences/Super_Mario_explains_parallel_universes_2'; You're unique. Aren't you? One of the more creative hypotheses surrounding quantum mechanics posits the exact opposite. Though we can readily see only one world, quantum mechanics says that when were not observing the particles that make up that world, those particles exist in multiple places at once. There are many theories that attempt to grasp what this means, but one of the most tantalizing is Hugh Everett's multiverse concept.



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