by Shawn Radcliffe | Sep 22, 2020 | Writing
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams writes, “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” As you might be able to tell, this book was written long before the COVID-19 pandemic, which has spread uncertainty throughout the world as...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Mar 24, 2014 | Health, Nutrition
As a health and science writer, people frequently ask me questions about diet, exercise and medical conditions. It’s not surprising. In an age of Wikipedia and WebMD, people who want to take control of their health may be just as likely to reach out to their Facebook...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Dec 3, 2013 | Science
It’s the moment we have all been waiting for. Scientists have finally revealed the Law of Urination, a theory that rivals both Evolution and the Higgs boson as the scientific find of the decade … or millennia. Developed by researchers at Georgia Tech, the...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Apr 16, 2012 | Science
The discovery of a new species of leopard tree frog in New York City is hardly surprising (see “A New Species in New York Was Croaking in Plain Sight,” New York Times 13 March 2012). We are taught as children that nature is something “out...