HuffPost Science: Live On Mars; Shipwreck 'Tablets'; 'Zombie' Planet

January 9, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Who Wants Free Trip To Mars? Have an itch that only space travel can scratch? You could spend billions for a trip to the moon, or you could journey to Mars -- for free. Continue reading... Ancient Ship's Odd Cargo Spotlights Long-Ago Health Care 'Zombie' Planet's Strange Behavior Shocks Scientists WATCH: Spinning Star Glows Like Eerie Mask In Space Giant Squid VIDEO: Deep-Sea 'Monster' Filmed By Team In Japan (PHOTOS) Gigantic Aeroscraft Airship Passes Ground Tests, Gets Set For Flight Operations (PHOTOS) Roman Shipwreck Off Greek Island Antikythera May Actually Hold Two Ships Giant Squid VIDEO: Deep-Sea 'Monster' Filmed By Team In Japan (PHOTOS) Mars One Astronaut-Selection Criteria Revealed In Advance Of 2022 Mission To Red Planet Giant Squid VIDEO: Deep-Sea 'Monster' Filmed By Team In Japan (PHOTOS) Mars One Astronaut-Selection Criteria Revealed In Advance Of 2022 Mission To Red Planet Neuroscience & Art: Margaret Livingstone Explains How Artists Take Advantage Of Human Visual Processing (VIDEO) WRAY HERBERT It's Complicated: The Psychology of 'Singlism' "Singlism" is indeed potent and double-edged. Because most people still do opt for marriage, this bias probably hurts more singles overall. But the intolerance that couple people feel is no less real or harmful. Continue reading... MARIO LIVIO Can Black Holes Tell Us Something About Digital Computers? Until the early 1970s, no one could see any relevance of these curious objects to what one might call everyday physics. Continue reading... MARSHALL P. DUKE Be Fruitful and Replicate: Facing the Crisis of Confidence in Science, Especially Psychological Science Unless science gets its house in order, we will have no more credibility than that handful of "satisfied users" of the exercise equipment whose abs are now "six packs" or that 43-year-old worker from Everycity, USA who lost 75 pounds eating "fat-burning donuts." Continue reading... NIGEL BARBER Is the Family Doomed? The brave new world of post-familism is a fascinating problem for social scientists, including evolutionary scholars like me. Will we diverge forever into Aldous Huxley's "brave new world" of unrelated individuals where families are disreputable, or will we cling to marriage and the family? Continue reading... BILL MCKIBBEN Obama vs. Physics It's not a fight, like education reform or abortion or gay marriage, between conflicting groups with conflicting opinions. We're talking about a fight between human beings and physics. And physics is entirely uninterested in human timetables. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.