Rhitu Chatterjee
Noisy Oceans Could Traumatize Squids
Giant squids are fascinating, deep sea creatures that are so elusive that a live one was photographed for the first time just last year. So it was very unusual for the people of Asturia, in northern Spain to encounter five giant squids on their beaches in 2001. The squids were dead, and the carcasses washed ashore over a two-month period. Four more carcasses were found in 2003 [...]
The Bilingual Brain
I have always considered myself a linguistic mutt. I grew up speaking Bengali (my mother tongue), Hindi (India’s national language), and English (a legacy of India’s colonial past). So I was thrilled to learn that the 2011 annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) had a session on bilingualism. It was titled “Crossing Borders in Language Science: What Bilinguals Are Telling Us About Mind and Brain.”
Black Carbon and climate change
The leading pollutant blamed for climate change is carbon dioxide, but a new study says another form of carbon ranks a close second. So-called black carbon is a kind of soot produced by diesel engines, power plants, and the burning of wood. A major source of black carbon is cook stoves in the developing world, and scientists are now trying to clean those stoves up. The World’s Rhitu Chatterjee has the story.
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