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POPSCI.COM
Where are humans headed? This column is about what the sapient mind thinks it knows about our past, present, and future as individuals, populations, and as a species. I discuss new findings and predictions in the realms of evolution, genetics, neuroscience, and the "humanosphere."

POPSCI.COM
As the enterprise of science grinds forward, there are discoveries and there are Discoveries. This blog is not about the latter. It champions the no-brainers; the scientific findings that don't rattle conventional wisdom or settle great mysteries. The ones whose conclusions sound, well, obvious.

You can also isten to me and other folks at Popular Science blather about no-duh studies in the Science Confirms the Obvious podcast: March 31, 2008