
Veronique Greenwood
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Odds and ends, bric-a-brac, scientific paraphernalia. Writer for The Atlantic, The New York Times, BBC Future, and others.
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Veronique Greenwood
Bovril: A meaty staple's strange link to cult science fictionAlamyInvented to make beef last long journeys to market, Bovril became a famous British kitchen staple. Less well-known is its link to an odd, pioneering science fiction novel. A stout black jar of Bovril with a cheery red top lurks in many a British kitchen, next to tins of treacle and boxes of tea.
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4 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Veronique Greenwood
Veronique Greenwood is a science writer who contributes regularly to Globe Ideas. On the seafloor off the coast of British Columbia, sediment swirls and a black tube snakes by, disappearing into a cloud of murk. The tube leads to a wide pit occupied by a scuba diver busily vacuuming up the earth. The diver is collecting the thick white clamshells that stud the walls of the pit. Some of them have been buried in the mud of the North Pacific for hundreds of years, perhaps even a millennium.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Veronique Greenwood
How the shell cracks in an exercise known as the egg drop challenge turned out to be more complicated than science teachers have been telling students for many years. The egg drop challenge is an annual rite of passage for many students learning about physics: Swaddle an egg in cotton balls and masking tape or other materials, and then drop it off the roof of your school.
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1 month ago |
estadao.com.br | Veronique Greenwood
Encapsulado dentro do crânio, no topo da coluna vertebral, o cérebro tem uma existência cuidadosamente controlada: ele recebe apenas certos nutrientes, todos bem filtrados pela barreira hematoencefálica, e é protegido por um elaborado sistema de membranas. Esse espaço privilegiado guarda um mistério. Por mais de um século, cientistas se perguntaram: se é assim tão difícil para qualquer coisa entrar no cérebro, como os resíduos saem?
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1 month ago |
quantamagazine.org | Ariel Bleicher |Yasemin Saplakoglu |Veronique Greenwood |Viviane Callier
Like many proud parents, David Ginty has decorated his office with pictures of his genetic creations. There’s the prickly one sporting a spiked collar and the wannabe cowboy twirling a lasso. There’s the dramatic one, always reacting to the slightest provocation; the observant one that notices every detail; the golden child Ginty loves to boast about. “They’re like a family,” he said.
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