Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2012

Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2012

• 2012 in Review: Notable Anniversaries
• Almost Apocalypse: Five Questions for Writer and Explorer Craig Childs
• The Maya and the End of the World
• 2012 in Review: Apocalypticism
• Casablanca: A Classic Film Turns 70
• Exploring the Origins of Christmas
• 2012 in Review: The Semantic Web
• The Gollum Diet: Cave Creatures from Around the World
• The War of 1812: A Forgotten War
• Of Hobbits, Pixies, and Gnomes
• 2012 in Review: Ungentlemanly Warfare
• Down and Dirty: Do Men and Women Perceive Cleanliness Differently?
• The Keystone XL Showdown
• 2012 in Review: Self-Promotion Spells Success!
• Lemmings: Bent on Self-Destruction?
• The Realities of Breastfeeding: Human Instinct and the Immeasurable Benefits for Infant Health
• Of Teeth, Cuisinarts, and Chopsticks: 5 Questions for Food Historian Bee Wilson
• 2012 in Review: Extreme Dieting
• Would a French Petraeus Get a Free Pass?
• 2012 in Review: Southern Africa’s Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area
• The Manhattan Project Gets a National Park—or Not
• New Digital School Solution Exemplifies Britannica Today
• Cape Hatteras Birds and Sea Turtles Get a Little Beach of Their Own
• 2012 in Review: The Doping Controversy
• The Right Jane: A Conversation with Noted Conservationist and Chimpanzee Expert Jane Goodall
• Honor Flight: Celebrating the Legacy of Those Who Served in World War II
• Bond Behind the Wheel
• The Gamble: 5 Questions for Political Scientists John Sides and Lynn Vavreck on the U.S. Presidential Election of 2012
• Skyfall: A Real Phenomenon?
• Knowledge at Your Fingertips: The Britannica and Merriam-Webster Apps for Windows 8
• Bond, James Bond: Britannica Chronicles the Evolution of the World’s Most Famous Secret Agent
• Thank Heaven for 007
• Archbishop Ussher Dates the Creation of the World
• Oratory and Debate: A False Distinction
• Animal Intelligence: How We Discover How Smart Animals Really Are
• Methane: It’s a Gas
• The Electoral College: Outdated Artifact of History
• The Receptors of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• The Election of 1912: A Century Ago, A Bruiser That Foreshadowed Today’s Political Melee
• From Servicemen to Segways in 70 Years
• Black Mamba Venom: As Painless as Morphine
• Happy Birthday, Yosemite National Park
• What Is the Hottest Place on Earth? (A Hint: It’s Not in Libya.)
• I Am the Common Carp, Destroyer of Aquatic Ecosystems
• Houston, We Have a Birthday!
• Drilling in the Cold Dark
• Happy Birthday, Winsor McCay
• John Quincy Adams, Neglected President: Five Questions for Biographer Harlow Unger
• Headstarting Smooth Green Snakes in Lake County
• Why Politicians Lie: Because They Can
• The Reptilian Nature of the Human Heart
• 2012 Britannica Mascot Throw-Down: It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Mascot Sings: Finals
• 2012 Britannica Mascot Throw-Down: And Then There Were Six: Round 2
• 2012 Britannica Mascot Throw-Down: The Gloves Come Off: Round 1
• 2012 Britannica Mascot Throw-Down: My Mascot Can Kick Your Mascot’s Butt
• The Sulfur Stench of the Salton Sea
• Happy Birthday, “Star-Spangled Banner”
• Eight Glasses (of Water) a Day: The Origins of a Nutritional Adage
• Web Masters
• Timbuktu: A World Heritage Site in Danger
• Parabéns, Brazil!
• Prime Suspects: Profiling Winged Invaders
• The Restless Country: The United States, a Land Without Vacations
• Cold Contrast in the Arctic Landscape
• Buzz, Buzz: West Nile Virus is Coming to a Town Near You
• Generation Debt: The Challenge for the Next President
• Is Your Yoga Teacher Full of It?: On Perspiration and Misinformation
• Finding Hope in Creativity: 5 Questions for Trend-Watcher Richard Florida
• A Giant Leap for Mankind
• Bark Beetles Take Advantage of Global Warming
• How to Tell a British Baby from an American: Differences in Naming Trends
• The Cactus’s Doppelgänger: Convergence in the Desert
• Citizen Kane, Vertigo, and the Cinematic Canon
• Highway to the Danger Zone
• The Ugly Duckling and Other Rejected Animals
• Little Leviathan: A Small Shark Shows Its Teeth
• The Angel Shark: A Messenger of Conservation
• Fish Out of Water: A Different Kind of Shark
• Off the Hook: Sharks Protected From Fishing in U.S. Waters
• Why Sharks Rule
• The Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge: Origins of the Smithsonian
• From Whitechapel to Watergate: Whodunnit?
• Ripper’s London and Thoreau’s New England
• How Fast is Jamaican Sprinter Usain Bolt?
• Five Olympians: Portraits from Games Past
• Curiosity Arrives on Mars
• Sports Notes from the Ancient World
• The Civilized and the Savage: Melville’s Peep at Polynesian Life
• The Real Moby Dick
• Cetacean Requiem: How Many Whales Are Killed By the Whaling Industry Each Year?
• Olympic Moments: 1956—Hungary vs. USSR
• Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica: Honoring the Anniversary of a Revolutionary Classic
• Improving on Perfection: The Swimsuit Issue
• In the Sport of Decathlon, Appearances are Deceiving
• Less than Medal-Worthy: Oddity in the Olympics
• Running Out of Memory: Exercise and Dementia Prevention
• Apollo 11′s Space Racers: After the Leap
• The First Dark Knight
• A Watering Hole in the Windy City
• Angst Man Rises: When a Body Meets a Batman Comin’ Through the Rye
• Batman’s Flawed Dive, and Why We Still Like Him
• This Land Is Your Land: Marking Woody Guthrie’s Centennial
• Are You Ever Too Old to Rock?
• Happy Birthday, Gustav Klimt
• Climbing the Mountain to See Gorillas
• Tax-y and He Knows It
• The “One-Armed Wonder” of Baseball’s War Years
• Calculating the Distance to a Lightning Strike
• Looking Back at 1776
• The Stars of Fireworks
• Faces of the Founders
• Snapping Turtle Yearlings at Lincoln Park Zoo’s Nature Boardwalk
• Happy Birthday, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Turbulence: An Airplane’s (and Airplane Passenger’s) Worst Nightmare
• The Molecular Nature of Water
• The Wizard of Bletchley Park: Alan Turing
• Turing the Thinking Machine
• The Ubiquity of Computers and the Need for Good Coding: Five Questions for Computer Scientist Peter J. Bentley
• Red-Winged Blackbirds Fledging at Lincoln Park Zoo’s Nature Boardwalk
• The War of 1812: Two’s Company, Three’s A Crowd
• Pick Your Apocalypse: Zombie Edition
• Brain, Anyone?
• Zombies!
• Specious Spidey Sense: The “Arachno-Apocalypse” in India
• Weather Influences Our Perception of Place
• Wildlife After Wartime: The Unique Inhabitants of Midway Atoll
• Floating Cities: Aircraft Carriers
• Do Comics Rot the Brain?
• Being “Fully Chimpanzee”
• The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific
• Filleted Fossil: The Unlikely Discovery of the Coelacanth
• The Lost Colony: Roanoke
• The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
• Atlantis: The Lost City Beneath a Swamp?
• Paul Revere and the Case of the Major General’s Teeth
• Portraits of a Dot: Earth from Space
• Bloodsucking Leeches: Biodiversity in a Blood Meal
• The Falklands War, 30 Years On
• Whaam!: The Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago
• Ring Around the Moon: The Annular Eclipse
• Black-Crowned Night Herons Arrive Early
• Celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in London
• The Conservative Mind (Literally): 5 Questions for Science Writer Chris Mooney
• Animals That Eat Animals That Eat Animals
• Of Winged Things the Swiftest: The Migratory Odyssey of North American Raptors
• That Sinking Feeling: Explore the Ocean Deep with Britannica
• When Waves Go Rogue
• The Pond from a Snapping Turtle’s Point of View
• The Forces that Keep Ships Upright
• Remember the Lusitania!
• Animals of Thrones: The Wolf and the Raven
• Henry David Thoreau and the Paradox of Self-Sufficiency
• Halls of Thrones: Castles
• Britannica TV Brush-up: Game of Thrones
• Haitian Eyes
• French Painting: Vive la Lumière!
• French Painting: Dark Shadows
• Shakespeare’s English
• The Road to the Élysée
• In the Waterpocket Fold: Capitol Reef National Park
• National Volunteer Week: What You Can do to Make a Change
• In North America’s Alps: North Cascades National Park
• Paul Revere’s Ride and the One-Third Rule
• House of the Sun: Haleakala National Park
• On the Road Again: Blue Ridge Parkway
• Busy Dublin Bridge
• Active Moons in Outer Space
• Is 27 a Particularly Deadly Age for Rock Musicians?
• Britannica’s Big Announcement: The Highlights
• Reek Sunday: The “Other” St. Patrick’s Day
• Titanic, Ben Bernanke, and Joe Stalin: Connect the Dots
• Illustrating the Fracking Process
• Bette Davis Eyes
• Austin Capitol
• From Typing Pool to Shark Tank: 5 Questions with Mad Women Author Jane Maas
• Upping the Ante on Principals
• Ireland’s Aran Islands: The Richest Place I Know
• A National Control of Ideas? Really?
• Skunkish Thiols: Why Tomato Juice Never Wins
• Glasgow Necropolis
• Replicating Human Organs from Computerized Blueprints
• What’s Shaking Wisconsin? (Ask an Editor)
• What’s in a Name in The Hunger Games
• Bread and Circuses: The Hunger Games and Ancient Rome
• Burning Empires: The Dystopian Future of The Hunger Games
• Did Nero Fiddle As Rome Burned?
• Five Contributors Who Matter
• Change: It’s Okay. Really.
• Looking Ahead
• Britannica Today
• Britannica Goes All-Out Digital
• Britannica’s Digital Milestones
• Britannica: An Infographic Profile
• Getting Over “Scarlett Fever”: 5 Questions for Civil War Historian Nina Silber
• Three (Plus One) Fictional Presidents (Films About the Presidents)
• George W. Bush (Films About the Presidents)
• Bill Clinton (Films About the Presidents)
• Richard Milhous Nixon (Films About the Presidents)
• John F. Kennedy (Films About the Presidents)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Films About the Presidents)
• Theodore Roosevelt and The Wind and the Lion (Films About the Presidents)
• Johnny Cash, “Man in Black” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Abraham Lincoln (Films About the Presidents)
• The [Snowy] Owl By Day
• Andrew Jackson and The Buccaneer (Films About the Presidents)
• John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson (Films About the Presidents)
• Films About the Presidents: A Film Series
• What Do Bees Do in Winter?
• Love Your Heart – Know Your Blood Pressure Readings
• Of Habit and Resolution
• Mná na hÉireann: Women of Ireland
• On the Bleeding Edge of Climate Change: Five Questions for Writer and Conservationist William deBuys
• The New Madrid Quakes of 1811–12
• Laboratory Microbes: Coping with Difficult Personalities
• Violeta Parra, “Gracias a la vida” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Are the Stooges Funny? A Philosopher Says “Soitanly!”
• What to Watch for in Super Bowl XLVI: 5 Questions for Five-Time Super Bowl Veteran Glenn Parker
• The Race for the Antarctic
• The Youngbloods, “Get Together” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Talkin’ ‘Bout Regeneration
• Blind Willie Johnson, “If I Had My Way I’d Tear the Building Down” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• The Great Wall of China (Picture of the Day)
• Massasaugas Take the Season Off
• What Causes Lightning?
• The Byrds, “Tribal Gathering” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• David Bowie, “Warszawa” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Christmas-Morning Coyotes
• McCoy Tyner, “Effendi” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Mind the Gap! (Picture of the Day)
• The Tucson Shooting, One Year Later (Picture of the Day)
• Margaret Thatcher: The U.K.’s Metal Matriarch
• Lincoln Park Zoo New Arrivals: Hoffmann’s Two-Toed Sloth
• How Much Does Earth’s Atmosphere Weigh?
• How Humans Evolved Large Brains (Science Up Front)
• Who’s Who at the Iowa Caucus
• 10 People You Shouldn’t Forget
• Townes Van Zandt, “Pancho and Lefty” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)