Stephanie Pappas
@sipappas.bsky.social
Freelance science writer - Scientific American, Live Science, APA. I will be on my deathbed still looking up whether it's "Proceedings of the National Academies of Science" or "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"
Ozian hydrology is off the hook
November 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Ozian hydrology is off the hook
Would landlocked Oz even use a tide-based calendar system??? This demands investigation.
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Would landlocked Oz even use a tide-based calendar system??? This demands investigation.
Rising Tide by John Barry; The Big Burn by Timothy Egan; and my all-time favorite In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Rising Tide by John Barry; The Big Burn by Timothy Egan; and my all-time favorite In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides
I scrolled down to see if anyone mentioned this one. SO good.
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I scrolled down to see if anyone mentioned this one. SO good.
Worth adding that there is evidence of airborne virus in milking barns, as well: www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird...
Bird Flu on Dairy Farms May Be Airborne After All
Infectious bird flu virus was found in milk, on equipment, within wastewater and aerosolized in the air on California dairy farms
www.scientificamerican.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Worth adding that there is evidence of airborne virus in milking barns, as well: www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird...
Off-the-beaten-path favorites: The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, SD (Pleistocene sinkhole!!) and the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, WY (one of only 2 places to see a real archaeopteryx outside of Europe!). Oh, and the Grey Fossil site in East TN for everything Pliocene.
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Off-the-beaten-path favorites: The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, SD (Pleistocene sinkhole!!) and the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, WY (one of only 2 places to see a real archaeopteryx outside of Europe!). Oh, and the Grey Fossil site in East TN for everything Pliocene.
Well now I almost wanna read it 😂
September 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Well now I almost wanna read it 😂
Maybe Ian McEwan’s Solar? Still - 14 years old and I don’t think it was highly acclaimed! I agree these books are now few and far between.
September 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Maybe Ian McEwan’s Solar? Still - 14 years old and I don’t think it was highly acclaimed! I agree these books are now few and far between.