Articles by Nick Werle
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have your cake and feel good, too
When the Indian spice trade picked up in the 16th century in Europe, black pepper was said to be literally worth …
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS CEILING
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (which debuted March 5) takes the director's signature darkness as a lens for Lewis Carroll's famously …
Downhill battle
As the US Ski Team prepares to compete on the snow-starved slopes of British Columbia’s Whistler Mountain, its hopes are pinned …
Onions, Hot Sweet Onions
I’ve heard people say they don’t like onions. This seems impossible. Onions are an essential ingredient in nearly every savory dish. …
NASA's Space Race Pit Stop
Long-time residents of Florida’s northeastern Space Coast, a region that includes the NASA launch pads at Cape Canaveral, can follow the …
THE COLDEST, EMPTIEST PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest machine ever built. The particle accelerator is a 17-mile ring that lies inside a …
Zogby Philosophy
Surgeons have their scalpels, biologists their microscopes, physicists their particle accelerators. Each tool is a symbol of its discipline forged in …
Nobel Selections
the noblest nerds of 2009
Physics Were it not for this year’s Nobel laureates in physics, itis safe to say that no college student would find …
Science Roundup
this week in mammalia
This week, scientists learned who among themwill enter the Swedish Pantheon of Nobel science. But just because the lucky few are …
A little piece of mind
Just after he was diagnosed with AIDS in the spring of 2007, Bobbie Ebert was suffering from a fresh burst of …