How Can You Prepare for a Hurricane?

Following World War II, Austrialia became embroiled in another war -- with a population of emu. Learn how the Emu War unfolded in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/ridiculous-history-emu-war.htmSee omnystudio.co ... Show More

Neurologists and philosophers alike may argue that altruism doesn't exist because no act is ever completely unselfish. Learn why -- and why humans may have evolved this way -- in today's episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolutio ... Show More

Just outside Los Angeles, Forest Lawn Memorial Park is the resting place of many celebrities -- and also home to art, architecture, and celebrations of life. Learn about it in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/f ... Show More

I'm sharing this Hurricane Stress Meditation I wrote this morning as my husband and I are in the throes of preparing for Hurricane Milton, which is supposed to hit my home of Tampa Bay directly as of now. It is so easy to let fear overtake us, so I hope that this meditation will ... Show More

I'm sharing this Hurricane Stress Meditation I wrote this morning as my husband and I are in the throes of preparing for Hurricane Milton, which is supposed to hit my home of Tampa Bay directly as of now. It is so easy to let fear overtake us, so I hope that this meditation will ... Show More

I'm sharing this Hurricane Stress Meditation I wrote this morning as my husband and I are in the throes of preparing for Hurricane Milton, which is supposed to hit my home of Tampa Bay directly as of now. It is so easy to let fear overtake us, so I hope that this meditation will ... Show More

I'm sharing this Hurricane Stress Meditation I wrote this morning as my husband and I are in the throes of preparing for Hurricane Milton, which is supposed to hit my home of Tampa Bay directly as of now. It is so easy to let fear overtake us, so I hope that this meditation will ... Show More

I'm sharing this Hurricane Stress Meditation I wrote this morning as my husband and I are in the throes of preparing for Hurricane Milton, which is supposed to hit my home of Tampa Bay directly as of now. It is so easy to let fear overtake us, so I hope that this meditation will ... Show More

I'm sharing this Hurricane Stress Meditation I wrote this morning as my husband and I are in the throes of preparing for Hurricane Milton, which is supposed to hit my home of Tampa Bay directly as of now. It is so easy to let fear overtake us, so I hope that this meditation will ... Show More

Florida's Gulf Coast continues to clean up from Hurricane Milton, which came ashore as a Category 3 storm battering an area already weary from Hurricane Helene. With less than 4 weeks to Election Day, the response to both disasters is predictably being filtered through a politica ... Show More

What's it like to fly into the eye of a hurricane? Niala joins a team of NOAA Hurricane hunters tracking Hurricane Lee to understand the science gathered on these missions, and how it helps create the forecasts that millions depend upon. Plus, monitoring AI for hate speech. And, ... Show More

As climate change drives more frequent and intense tropical cyclones and hurricanes, coastal communities desperately need better tools to predict how bad storms will be and when and where they’ll strike—and to assess the damage afterward. From the air and in space, NASA and NOAA ... Show More

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Scientific American revisits the storm’s tragic legacy and the scientific warnings that went unheeded. Senior editor Mark Fischetti shares his experience reporting on the city’s vulnerability years before the levees bro ... Show More