Author: Ferris Jabr

Ferris Jabr studied psychology and English at Tufts University, where he worked in a social psychology lab and wrote for the daily newspaper. He has interned with Psychology Today magazine in New York and the PBS show NOVA in Boston. He is now interning with Environmental Health News. You can visit his personal web site, read his blogs Psyence and Savvy Saplings and follow him on Twitter.

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Echoes from the Future of Opera

Echoes from the Future of Opera

A mashup of music and technology at the MIT Media Lab

By Ferris Jabr | Posted March 12, 2010

An Interview with Jodie Holt, the Botanist Behind ‘Avatar’

An Interview with Jodie Holt, the Botanist Behind ‘Avatar’

Before ‘Avatar’ could hit the silver screen, it needed one plant scientist’s green thumbs up

By Ferris Jabr | Posted March 7, 2010

Australian Meat Ants Enjoy Cane Toads à la Cat Food

Australian Meat Ants Enjoy Cane Toads à la Cat Food

Biologists use cat food to recruit omnivorous ants in their battle against invasive cane toads

By Ferris Jabr | Posted February 28, 2010

What Do The Planets Sound Like?

What Do The Planets Sound Like?

Astronomer Greg Laughlin and composer Philip Glass try to hear the “music of the spheres” at the Rubin Museum’s latest Brainwave event

By Ferris Jabr | Posted February 22, 2010

Puppy Tweets Unleashes Dogs on Twitter

Puppy Tweets Unleashes Dogs on Twitter

Mattel’s new toy collar for dogs allows them to update their own Twitter accounts

By Ferris Jabr | Posted February 16, 2010

The Immortal Woman Who Science Stole and History Tried to Forget

The Immortal Woman Who Science Stole and History Tried to Forget

Rebecca Skloot’s new book reveals untold truths about one of medical science’s most important tools

By Ferris Jabr | Posted February 3, 2010

Bionic Bugs

Bionic Bugs

The Defense Department’s attempts to merge insects and electronics are benefiting science more than the military

By Ferris Jabr | Posted January 22, 2010

The Shocking Truth: Trees are Electric

The Shocking Truth: Trees are Electric

New circuits tap into electric currents generated by bigleaf maple trees

By Ferris Jabr | Posted January 8, 2010

Did Tainted Cow’s Milk Kill Jane Austen?

Did Tainted Cow’s Milk Kill Jane Austen?

Medical and literary experts debate English novelist Jane Austen’s fatal illness

By Ferris Jabr | Posted December 7, 2009

Darwin’s Rottweiler and Dawkins’s Dogma

Darwin’s Rottweiler and Dawkins’s Dogma

Is evolution a theory or fact?

By Ferris Jabr | Posted October 22, 2009

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