Robby Berman
Contributing Writer
I’m a writer, musician, and father living in central New York with my wife, two daughters, one dog, two cats, and countless questions. I’m especially interested in animal rights, creativity, politics, the nature of things and time, and in making a worthwhile contribution. You can follow me @everyrobby.
Some have suggested that there is no hidden giant out there.
When it comes to climate change, today’s airplane pollution is a real problem.
A sobering look at the prospects for kids not wealthy enough to fail upward.
Our clever human hands may soon be outdone.
Intense lightning could have burned us out of the trees.
A new study looks at astronauts’ brains after they come back home.
From deejays to Debussy, it’s all brain food.
No one should be drinking more than 8oz. a day. Here’s why.
Don’t believe a small reduction in immunization matters?
A new NASA report shakes up lunar geology.
A high-schooler’s dig experience writes a new chapter in T-Rex history.
A new study finds such kids excel in all cognitive areas.
New research solves a long-standing puzzle.
The answer is surprisingly simple, if cataclysmic.
1,500 study participants play Spot the Cheater
A balanced discussion of the realities, the mythologies, and the concerns surrounding cutting-edge brain research.
There are reasons you look the way you do.
They seem to have a mechanism for caring similar to ours.
China is testing electronic monitoring of students’ attention levels.
A long-ridiculed theory about humankind’s early leap of consciousness is revived.
Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from “a million years to 30 minutes,” says Nobel laureate
Physicist plans to karate-chop them with super-fast blasts of light.
Doctors may be able to painlessly reshape cartilage with the technique.
Beefless meat enters the mainstream.
A recent Colorado study of ER visits is alarming medical professionals.
What gives us color now may give rise to our cyborg future.
This may be more common in mammals than we’d thought.
They may be using an “air bridge” to do so.