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Cookie Cutter Science

One of the best parts of baking for me as a kid was the process of “helping” my mama roll out and cut cookie shapes for the oven. At this age I know that I actually hindered her work and she was just being kind in letting me participate, but at the time I thought I was an aide in the process of transforming a lump of material into a thin sheet of ginger-rich dough that we could cut up into the barnyard animals of which I was so fond – and for which we had many different cutter shapes.

Rats Are Decent Little Souls

The more we learn about animals, the more complex and interesting is the behavior they exhibit. My faithful mutt-from-the-pound, a dog named Buster Brown, impresses me from time to time with complex behaviors aimed at getting what he wants out of me. Most people who live with animals can tell you a tale or two of diabolical ­– or thoughtful – animal behavior they’ve witnessed....
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Many Pre-Irene UFO Sightings In Bronx

Hours before Hurricane Irene made landfall in New York City, a multitude of triangular shaped lights were witnessed by dozens in the sky above Bronx....
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Latin American Blueberries Called "Superfruit"

While nutritionists have long touted the health benefits of eating antioxidant-rich blueberries, new research at Lehman College in Bronx indicates a form of the fruit grown in Central and South America has earned the title “superfruit.”...
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Yuri Gagarin, First Man In Space

YouTube is celebrating 50 years of human spaceflight with the premiere of an hour-and-a-half long video, First Orbit, that recreates, in real-time, Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin's first 108-minute long orbit of Earth in 1961....
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IBM's Girl's Go TechKnow

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, jobs requiring science, engineering and technical training has increased 51 percent through 2008. In order to prepare the youth of our society for these careers, more than 200,000 new teachers in math and science will be needed in the next decade, according to estimates by groups such as the Business-Higher Education Forum in Washington. ...
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Hans Christian Ørsted Gets Google Doodled

Thanks to Google, hundreds of millions of people are today celebrating Hans Christian Ørsted's birthday without having much of a clue who he is … so who exactly was he? ...
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Man On The Moon - 40 Years Later

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Einstein Dean Appointed By Governor Paterson

Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., The Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has been appointed by Governor David Paterson to the Empire State Stem Cell Board Funding Committee....
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Advancing Against Breast Cancer

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx have discovered how a gene crucial in triggering the spread of breast cancer is turned on and off....
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Cookie Cutter Science

One of the best parts of baking for me as a kid was the process of “helping” my mama roll out and cut cookie shapes for the oven. At this age I know that I actually hindered her work and she was just being kind in letting me participate, but at the time I thought I was an aide in the process of transforming a lump of material into a thin sheet of ginger-rich dough that we could cut up into the barnyard animals of which I was so fond – and for which we had many different cutter shapes.

Rats Are Decent Little Souls

The more we learn about animals, the more complex and interesting is the behavior they exhibit. My faithful mutt-from-the-pound, a dog named Buster Brown, impresses me from time to time with complex behaviors aimed at getting what he wants out of me. Most people who live with animals can tell you a tale or two of diabolical ­– or thoughtful – animal behavior they’ve witnessed.

Many Pre-Irene UFO Sightings In Bronx

Hours before Hurricane Irene made landfall in New York City, a multitude of triangular shaped lights were witnessed by dozens in the sky above Bronx.
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Latin American Blueberries Called "Superfruit"

While nutritionists have long touted the health benefits of eating antioxidant-rich blueberries, new research at Lehman College in Bronx indicates a form of the fruit grown in Central and South America has earned the title “superfruit.”

Yuri Gagarin, First Man In Space

YouTube is celebrating 50 years of human spaceflight with the premiere of an hour-and-a-half long video, First Orbit, that recreates, in real-time, Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin's first 108-minute long orbit of Earth in 1961.

IBM's Girl's Go TechKnow

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, jobs requiring science, engineering and technical training has increased 51 percent through 2008. In order to prepare the youth of our society for these careers, more than 200,000 new teachers in math and science will be needed in the next decade, according to estimates by groups such as the Business-Higher Education Forum in Washington.
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Hans Christian Ørsted Gets Google Doodled

Thanks to Google, hundreds of millions of people are today celebrating Hans Christian Ørsted's birthday without having much of a clue who he is … so who exactly was he?
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Einstein Dean Appointed By Governor Paterson

Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., The Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has been appointed by Governor David Paterson to the Empire State Stem Cell Board Funding Committee.
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Advancing Against Breast Cancer

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx have discovered how a gene crucial in triggering the spread of breast cancer is turned on and off.

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Edward J. Small

is currently a graduate student at the Columbia School of Journalism. He has previously worked as the editor-in-chief of his college newspaper, The Dickinsonian, and as an editorial intern at America’s most prominent fake newspaper, The Onion. He is a native of Connecticut but currently lives in New York City.