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Natalie Angier (born February 16, 1958) is a nonfiction writer and a science journalist for the New York Times. Angier was born in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York. After completing two years at the University of Michigan, she studied physics and English at Barnard College, where she graduated with high honors in 1978.

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Basics: The Biology Behind the Milk of Human Kindness

As the festival of mandatory gratitude looms into view, allow me to offer a few suggestions on what, exactly, you should be thankful for. Be thankful that, on at least one occasion, your mother did not fend off your father with a pair of nunchucks, ...

From NATALIE ANGIER, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Airlines,  National Academy of Sciences,  Oregon State University,  Sue Carter,  University of Illinois

Basics: Pigs Prove to Be Smart, if Not Vain

We’ve all heard the story of the third Little Pig, who foiled the hyperventilating wolf by building his house out of bricks, rather than with straw or sticks as his brothers had done. Less commonly known is that the pig later improved his home’s safety ...

From NATALIE ANGIER, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Illinois,  University of Cambridge

Basics: A Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels at Its Task

If you’ve ever had a problem with rodents and woken up to find that mice had chewed their way through the Cheerios, the Famous Amos, three packages of Ramen noodles, and even that carton of baker’s yeast you had bought in a fit of “Ladies of the Canyon” ...

From NATALIE ANGIER, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York University,  Northwestern University

Basics: In Mammals, a Complex Journey to the Middle Ear

Imagine what a dinner conversation would be like if you had decent table manners, but the ears of a lizard. Not only would you have to stop eating whenever you wanted to speak, but, because parts of your ears are now attached to your jaw, you’d have to ...

From NATALIE ANGIER, The New York Times,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Museum of Natural History,  University of Chicago,  University of Washington

Basics: Give Birds a Break. Lock Up the Cat.

Halloween came to our house early this year. The other day I looked out the window and saw a strange black cat sauntering through our yard. It was a beautiful animal, with bright penny eyes and fur that gleamed like a newly polished shoe, but still ...

From NATALIE ANGIER, The New York Times,  28 Sep 2009

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Basics: An Organ of Many Talents, at the Root of Serious Ills

Should anybody in the reliably pestilent health care debate be casting about for a mascot organ to represent some of the biggest medical crises that we Americans face, allow me to nominate a nonobvious candidate: the pancreas. It may lie in the hidden ...

From NATALIE ANGIER, The New York Times,  14 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Johns Hopkins University,  Sonia Sotomayor,  Peter Olson

Basics: Skipping Spouse to Spouse Isn’t Just a Man’s Game

In the United States and much of the Western world, when a couple divorces, the average income of the woman and her dependent children often plunges by 20 percent or more, while that of her now unfettered ex, who had been the family’s primary ...

From NATALIE ANGIER, The New York Times,  31 Aug 2009

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Basics: Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop

If after a few months’ exposure to our David Lynch economy, in which housing markets spontaneously combust, coworkers mysteriously disappear and the stifled moans of dying 401(k) plans can be heard through the floorboards, you have the awful sensation ...

From NATALIE ANGIER, The New York Times,  17 Aug 2009

Related Topics: David Lynch,  Stanford University

Basics: Finally, the Spleen Gets Some Respect

As a confirmed crab apple who has often been compared to the splenetic Lucy Van Pelt character from Peanuts, I am gratified to learn that should my real spleen ever decide to vent in earnest, the outburst may just help save my life. Scientists have ...

From NATALIE ANGIER, The New York Times,  3 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Harvard Medical School,  Charles Baudelaire

New Creatures in an Age of Extinctions

In the inner precincts of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, along a corridor that could easily accommodate a string of bowling alleys, Kristofer M. Helgen, curator of mammals, pulled open one of the thousands of metal ...

From NATALIE ANGIER, The New York Times,  25 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Museum of Natural History,  Safeway Inc.

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