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Katie Weeman

  • Science Writer and Social Media Manager, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Boulder, Broomfield
As seen in: Scientific American, EurekAlert!, Phys.org, Rhapsody Newsletter, RealClear Science, The Chronicle~News, Puerto Rico Technology Today
Science writer, dog (and human) mom, landlocked ocean lover. Comms Director for @CWCB_DNR. she/her/hers
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LINKS - April 3rd, 2024

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By Megan St-Esprit , Katie Weeman, Yuval Abraham
| Rhapsody Newsletter
Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Meg St-Esprit, Atlas Obscura “This massive reduction in human population was recorded in Antarctica, says King. Places Indigenous people once lived, worked, and farmed were abandoned, and the fabric of the planet was altered.
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Eclipse Psychology: How the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse Will Unite People Watching

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By Katie Weeman
| Scientific American
It was 11:45 A.M. on August 21, 2017. I was in a grassy field in Glendo, Wyo., where I was surrounded by strangers turned friends, more than I could count—and far more people than had ever flocked to this town, population 210 or so. Golden sunlight blanketed thousands of cars parked in haphazard rows all over the rolling hills. The shadows were quickly growing longer, the air was still, and all of our faces pointed to the sky.
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Eaten, Crushed or Starved; Male Tarantulas Trade Their Life to Impregnate a Mate Original

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By Katie Weeman
| Scientific American
On an early evening in September, 16 dark, hairy legs were kicking up dust on the prairie floor in La Junta, Colo. A male Oklahoma brown tarantula was locked in a heated mating match with a female twice his age. Although weary, he plunged a set of hooks that had recently grown on his front legs into his mate’s mouth, just below her glossy fangs, to prevent her from chewing him up.
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