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3 August 2026 Hello again appreciator of science,Ahoj znova, milovník vedy,[Over 300 million people speak a slavic language] BIOLOGY / ETHOLOGY Let me share what i recently learned about some extremes of human perception. One to two percent of people are ‘super-recognizers’. They easily recognize people years after a brief encounter. [Definitely NOT me.] People with prosopagnosia have … Read more
6 July 2026 Greetings, science aficionados,Salutojn, sciencamantoj,[Esperanto is spoken today by over 2 million people, usually as a second language.L.L. Zamenhof published this ‘created language’ in 1887] Let’s open a fascinating chapter of Public Health at a time we were confronted by an earlier deadly pandemic: Polio Poliomyelitis – Infantile Paralysis – Polio – has … Read more
The SciSchmooze8 June 2026 Absurd: ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) MEDICINE / HEALTH Several individual States [California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, & Washington] and the City of New York joined the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network, GOARN. Wisconsin announced its intention to do the same. ¿Why? Because the United States … Read more
The SciSchmooze1 June 2026 Hello again science fans,Salam sejahtera sekali lagi kepada peminat sains,About 300 million people speak Malay in Malaysia and Indonesia. This SciSchmooze focuses on fun. The explosion of ping pong balls pictured above is one of hundreds of fun stunts – science stunts – Mark Rober has created over the years. He … Read more
The SciSchmooze4 May 2026 Greetings again, friends of science,Sempa xitlajpaloca, nohuampoyohua tlen ciencia,Nearly 2 million people speak Nahuatl (Eastern Huasteca) in Mexico Every year with the coming of the month of May, the catchy tune of the Lusty Month of May becomes an earworm. The song is from Lerner & Loewe’s Broadway musical “Camelot” starring Richard Burton, … Read more
The SciSchmooze27 April 2026 Greetings again, friends of scienceMwapoleni nakabili, ifibusa fya sayansi[About 6 million people in Zambia, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo speak Bemba.] ENVIRONMENT Last Wednesday – Earth Day – a bill was scheduled for approval in the U.S. House of Representatives: The Endangered Species Amendments Act. The bill called for fast-tracking … Read more
29 March 2026 Greetings again, friends of science,科学を愛する皆さん、改めてご挨拶申し上げます。 Tidbit: The population of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area is about the same as California’s. “They lie.” That was the Australian’s response when i mentioned that nearly all meteorologists concur that global warming is happening. Rather than dispute this, i merely pointed out that scientists are focussed mostly … Read more
2 March 2026 Greetings again, friends of science, Kwaziwai zvakare, shamwari dzesainzi, [15 million people speak Shona, one of 16 official languages of Zimbabwe.] When the Environmental Protection Agency repealed the ‘2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding’ in February, it was abundantly clear it was done to favor the fossil fuel industry. That’s hardly surprising since … Read more
2 February 2026 Welcome, glad you are reading this.Mwaniriziddwa, musanyufu nti osoma bino.[Over 10 million people speak Luganda in Uganda.] Subscribe to the SciSchmooze at Bay Area Science. Heck, sign up your friends too. It’s free. Reid, Christina, Jeremy, and Victor are leaving for the Moon next Sunday. Their spacecraft will loop around the Moon twice … Read more
5 January 2026 Hello again, friends of science,Bongu mill-ġdid, ħbieb tax-xjenza,[Spoken on Malta, Maltese is an Arabic dialect with some vocabulary borrowed from Sicilian, Italian, and English.] It’s a new year. Our Earth, traveling at 108,000 k/hr, completed another 360° circuit of Sol, our star, the Sun. The Sun, traveling at 828,000 k/hr around our … Read more