We are well into the 2012 Olympic Games, and we've seen several big upsets resulting in big seeded players like Agnieszka Radwanska, Tomas Berdych, Sam Stosur, and Li Na all being eliminated in the tournament. Now some of those might have been surprising, but in this countdown we are going to bring you the top 5 tennis upsets in Olympics history.
Sophie Bushwick (Twitter, Tumblr) is a science journalist and podcaster, and is currently an intern at DISCOVERmagazine.com. She has written for Scientific American, io9, and DISCOVER, and has produced podcasts for 60-Second Science and Physics Central. Human chromosomes (grey) capped by telomeres (white) U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Program Renowned biologist Elizabeth Blackburn has said that when she was a young post-doc, “Telomeres just grabbed me and kept leading me on.” And lead
“My Wild Blue Roan” (Even if he did turn out to be a Gray) By Lona Patton Near a place they call Adobe Town, an HMA located in Wyoming. Nineteen hundred ninety six, was the year at hand On the 27th day of March Our herd was happy grazing, out there upon the land. One […]
Getting to Know the Horses of the AIHR – Unwritten, aka Rhett If anyone had asked me in the Spring of 2010, what would I wish for if I had three wishes, I would have answered, “World peace, an end to hunger, a decent supply of hay for the year or cheaper feed prices. I would […]
Getting to Know the Horses of the AIHR – Wanna Fly When I met Fly, I knew I loved this horse. Of course I love all horses, but Fly was different. I felt we had something special between us, and I never wanted that to change. The first time I rode Fly, I immediately noticed […]
SCARLET NATION My Angel Horse I raised my Appaloosa mare, Scarlet Nation, from a foal. She had been born a solid colored filly in a world that only wanted spots. I got her as a three month old and about the size and color of a large Irish Setter, hence her name. In her youth […]
Getting to Know the Horses of the AIHR – Iced Bonanza, “Keerah” About three years ago, I was on the hunt for a horse. We searched the paper and craigslist for a place to board. Hooray. A place in the paper. We set up a day to go look at the property, and it was […]
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We've all heard the horror stories. Melanoma is one of the most dangerous kinds of skin cancer, killing around 50,000 people worldwide every year. If caught early enough, it can be cured, but once it invades past the skin, it's deadly. On the advice of doctors, we try to protect ourselves, donning floppy hats and coat upon coat of SPF 50 sunblock. We pick over our bodies in the mirror regularly, looking for dark, irregularly-shaped spots. The recent rise in the incidence of skin cancer, though,