Articles by Ben Platt

‘Ropeless’ Crab Gear Would Put Whales At Greater Risk

More reads

The Worst Disaster In The History Of British Polar Exploration Now Yields Archeological Treasure

In 1845, two ships under the command Captain John Franklin, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, left England on a voyage to chart the top of North America and a Northwest Passage that would connect the…

Proportionality: Can Birth Length And Birth Weight Predict Future Heart Problems?

A new paper in the journal Early Human Development hopes to use the infant form of the Body Mass Index(BMI) to predict future heart disease.

The Government Wants More Coal To Get Energy Costs Down - Is That Bad For The Air?

President Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order restarting coal leasing on federal lands while classifying coal as a critical mineral. Social media critics, and academics being…

While The House Pushes Green New Deal Fan Fiction, The Senate Wants To Lower Emissions Using Science

The Green New Deal is the name given to a half-formed quasi-rational publicity stunt formed by the New Guard in the House of Representatives.