Rachel Gutman

@rachgutman

assistant editor, sci-tech-health ||| pitches to science at theatlantic dot com

Washington, DC
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Joined January 2015
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  1. 9 hours ago

    In order to feed itself, the loggerhead shrike performs a routine equivalent to "shaking two legs of ham, or roughly one Chipotle burrito. In my mouth. With my neck. Eleven times a second." (We still don't know what Ed puts on his burritos)

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  2. Sep 4

    "Twitter has changed its user avatars from square-shaped to circular, redesigned Moments, added topic tags ... None of these updates change the fact that ... Twitter itself [is] miserable for many users." on Twitter's selective updates:

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  3. Sep 3

    "Humans are really terrible at interpreting shadows. Maybe one of the reasons is that many of the things that we see are not really shadows." reports on the imaging technology that uses windows and plants to see around corners and through walls:

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  4. Aug 31

    "The dream of the NUMTOT is alive in emoji." made a shocking discovery this week:

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  5. Aug 30

    More heat --> more insects with bigger appetites that spend less time dormant and prey on plants that are less able to defend themselves with toxins. lays out the coming sequel to the eighth plague of Egypt:

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  6. Aug 29

    One artist's culture is an astronaut's clutter

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  7. Aug 29

    "I’m sure you experience difficulties and challenges just being a woman in life. If someone came to you and said, 'We’ve got a genetic cure for being a woman,' that would be really bizarre to you because being a woman is who you are."

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  8. Aug 28

    A "paragon of conservation success" in the ocean around Kiribati actually inspired fishers to double their activity. Here's on the "blue paradox" of marine protected areas:

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  9. Aug 27

    You may have heard of superorganisms. Get ready for the pooperorganism:

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  10. Aug 27

    What's a sexually immature naked mole rat to do when tasked with caring for her queen's pups? Apparently, eat the queen's feces to become a better parent. has everything you never wanted to know about these you-know-what-eating weirdos:

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  11. Aug 27

    A group of researchers asked people to make bets on whether psychology findings would replicate in an online stock market. They predicted reproducibility at nearly the exact same rate that it actually happened. Here's on the study:

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    Aug 23

    Looking for a light read? Here's 2,000 words on the use of religious language in U.S. spaceflight history since the 1960s

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  13. Aug 22

    "The Anne Arundel county police confirmed the details of the Hahns’ report, but with two important discrepancies: there was nothing to link the suspect with the light rail and he wasn’t from Baltimore – he was local."

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  14. Aug 10

    “I’m always amused when someone says, ‘Shoot X or so-and-so into the sun' ... Because they have no idea how hard that is to do.”

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  15. Aug 9

    In the words of , this corn is "shining, shimmering, spleeeeeeeeeendid." Also it gets its fertilizer from the air.

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  16. Aug 9

    A riveting tale of the most divisive olive branch in archaeology, by

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  17. Aug 8

    Solar geo-engineering will help the world's crops pretty much exactly zero, since cooler temperatures will get canceled out by less sunlight. on a new study in Nature today:

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  18. Aug 7

    *sprints to CVS to buy more acne wipes and a block of cheddar cheese*

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  19. Aug 6

    When male doctors treat heart-attack patients, men are more likely to survive than women. When female doctors are the ones giving care, the gender gap seems to disappear. reports:

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  20. Aug 3

    “You can’t just have one goat.” , everyone

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