Maggie Ryan Sandford

Maggie Ryan Sandford

Maggie Ryan Sandford is a science journalist, writer, and broadcast media producer. Her work has been published in Slate, The Onion's A.V. Club, Thirty Two Magazine, Paper Darts, McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals, has appeared at the Walker Art Center, the Seattle Art Museum, the Minnesota Institute of Arts, the Guthrie Theatre, the People's Improv Theater, the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre NYC, and on Minnesota Public Radio and Twin Cities Public Television. Originally from Seattle, she now resides in St. Paul, and is fiercely proud of it. More on twitter @Mandford.

New Scientist

Know someone who still thinks science is boring? Tell them to get a load of these five phenomena, which prove science can be as painfully poetic as a ghost falling in love with a cirrus cloud.

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From the film in Infinite Jest to Margot's plays in The Royal Tenenbaums, here's a look at some famous fictional masterpieces. 1. The film in Infinite Jest The title of David Foster Wallace’s 1996 near-future epic refers to a fictional film of the same

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istock

There are over 100 species of marine mammals in the world, and most of them have as much cool stuff going for them as any old Moby Dick.

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The violin is considered by many to be the thinking man’s instrument, famously played by the likes of Albert Einstein and Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional genius Sherlock Holmes. Here are 12 other celebrities who fiddled around in their spare time: 1. Char

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