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.
A new survey and study compares beliefs about creation with a person’s scientific understanding and finds that the more one knows, the greater the chances are of accepting evolution as fact.
New research finds evidence that the gravitational pull of Jupiter and Venus has been warping our orbit every 405,000 years, at least as far back as 215 million years ago.
A new augmented reality game is being developed to help stroke victims stick to their rehabilitation regimen.
1,007 people were surveyed about their political affiliations and opinions, and their music tastes to learn to what extent they correspond to each other. Survey results are shown as infographics.
A court has ruled against a motion for appeal on behalf of chimpanzees Tommy and Kiko with a landmark opinion asserting the importance of better addressing the rights of nonhumans. The opinion calls this “a deep dilemma of ethics and policy that demands our attention.”
Two ex-Googlers release a new phone app that uses A.I. to become a safe, understanding listener.
Ready Player One’s spectacular VR OASIS experience has us wondering how achievable it really is and when we’ll start seeing immersive VR movies.
Older, wealthy men exploiting financially strapped young women isn’t new, but it’s an exploding phenomenon with the rising price of higher education and a factor in the ongoing HIV crisis in Africa.
A team of Polish designers has just won a competition with its design for an inflatable skyscraper designed for use in emergency zones.
Some of us can adjust our moods by listening to certain types of music we know will affect us. This survey looks at the music Americans turn to for mood modification.
A map shows the dominant religion in each of the United States’ counties. Evangelicals dominate the most areas geographically. Catholics are the majority faith in densely populated areas.
A listing of some of the British royalty’s favorite family names as the name Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s new baby.
Research suggests that your name affects the level of success you’ll achieve in your career and love life, and even where you choose to live.
The IAU has just approved a dozen new names for features on Pluto’s moon Charon. They draw from an array of famous authors, characters, mythical objects and one U.S. filmmaker.
After Beyoncé’s landmark Coachella performance, a look back at the biggest musical stars ever. It’s impossible to pick just one as the biggest, but fun to try.
Infographics present the latest NHTSA statistics on the likelihood of having a fatal accident while commuting to and from work.
The fascinating HBO documentary ‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ looks at Elvis’s practice of re-making black hits for his white audience. Was it cultural appropriation or just love of the material?
Rapper Meek Mill is stuck in jail, caught in the U.S. justice system’s perpetual probation trap that keeps a disproportionate number of black people in America incarcerated.
Earth is old enough to have been home to other industrialized civilizations so far back in the past we have no idea they were there. What we’ll leave behind may offer clues of what we could look for as evidence.
A new study from researchers at Northwestern University and University of Surrey links being a night owl to dying younger. It’s a large study of nearly half a million people and the first to document such a link.
Accident Claims Advice has made an infographic of the ways in which people often die, and figured out the odds of each one happening to you.
A new coating material has been developed for fighting healthcare-associated infections (HAI) using overhead lighting. It’s a new coating for hospital walls and surfaces that uses quantum dots and crystal violet to kill germs.
The suicide rate goes up in spring and summer—not winter as many believe—and studies suggest a link between immune-system inflammation from pollen and seasonal depression.
Researchers believe that the practice of sleeping through the whole night didn’t really take hold until just a few hundred years ago.
Though conventional wisdom suggests that birth order influences personality, newer research says this isn’t true. What is true is how powerful an effort to remain close to our brothers and sisters as we grow up can be.
Infographics look at jobs 95% likely to be taken by robots and the working hours that will be lost.
Brewing beer is as much science as art, and here are four reasons why.
Human chimerism seems to be a rare condition where twins swap DNA, but it may be more common than you think.
50 years after his assassination, a look back at five ways Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. changed the U.S.
A questionable new study paid for by the O2 concert venue finds that going to a concert every two weeks can add nine years to your life.