Can Cities Feed Us?

Conservation, July-September 2010, pages 16-21.

For every acre of land cultivated in a high-rise urban farm, 10 to 20 acres of current cropland could go wild.

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Findings and The Hub, September 2010

Columns, September 2010, pages 17, 22-23.

Machine Reads Newborn Minds
Here’s an item that won’t surprise parents: it takes a 1-ton apparatus to figure out what’s going on in a young child’s mind.

Blast Waves and Brain Damage
Understanding hidden injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

The Orbit of Influence
Weird neighbors in distant galaxies.

UW & the Big Spill
Estimating the damage from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Findings, June 2010

Columns, June 2010, pages 22-23.

What Are You Thinking?
A tool for measuring unconscious attitudes and beliefs.

Building Green Roads
UW researchers develop a system to rate the sustainability of road construction and maintenance.

Dinosaurs Grow Older
A fossil find in southern Tanzania pushes back the Age of the Dinosaurs.

Findings, March 2010

Columns, March 2010, pages 22-23.

MRSA Digging in at Beaches
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are gaining foothold in the natural environment.

Micro Microscope
The world's smallest microscope helps diagnose cancer.

Breast Cancer Detection Test
Ultrasound may enable some women to avoid unnecessary biopsies.

Locating Lightning
Creating a real-time map of lightning around the globe.

Getting the Dirt on Climate Change
And helping a forest grow on Vashon Island.

War and the Environment

World Watch, Vol. 21, No. 1, January/February 2008. (Cover article.)

How human conflict shapes the landscape, from the jungles of Vietnam to the marshes of Iraq.

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Dark Secret of the Lake

New Scientist, Vol. 181 No. 2436, 28 February 2004, pages 40-43.

Lake Victoria’s cichlid fish have suffered a terrible decline in the past 20 years, but the prime culprit is not what scientists initially suspected.

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The World’s Toughest Bacterium

Genome News Network, July 5, 2002.

Deinococcus radiodurans may be a tool for cleaning up toxic waste and more.

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