WTF???: According to a new study, people who can spew or write more swear words in the space of a minute were more verbally fluent in general.© ISTOCK.COM/SHARON DOMINICK
—Piercarlo Valdesolo, a psychologist at Claremont McKenna College, writing in a recent issue of Scientific American about a new study that found subjects who were more fluent with swear words tended to have larger vocabularies than those who exhibited less-robust potty-mouthing abilities (April 5)
—Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, and 39 other NIH signatories, in a recent letter to Science lamenting the lack of basic science grant applications being submitted to the agency (March 25)
—Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen, in a YouTube video explaining the results of a recently published climate modeling study (March 21)
—Science writer Colin Macilwain, in a Nature column on the relationship between today’s scientists and politicians (March 16)
—New York Times correspondent Amy Harmon, ...
