Self-defense training: Women fight back (NBC) Oregon State University’s public safety officers have teamed up with a martial arts studio in Eugene to host a weekend women’s self-defense class. (see also KMTR) Historical fictions: Stranger than truth? (Huffington Post) A piece by OSU associate professor Evan Gottlieb. Six tacos, six glazed donuts and a cherry [...]

‘A similar earthquake and tsunami could just as easily happen here’(KATU) A new exhibit featuring a portion of a dock that washed ashore near Newport more than a year after the devastating March 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake and tsunami will open on Sunday, March 10, at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport. (see also Statesman Journal, Democrat-Herald) [...]

Food signals: Why what we eat affects our cells (Huffington Post) The metaphor of food as hormones is interesting, says Donald Jump, a professor and biochemist at the School of Biological and Population Health Sciences at Oregon State University. “It’s really clear that food is just a pile of biochemicals,” he says. “Trying to sort [...]

Study documents decline of phys ed requirements (Inside Higher Ed) A new study documents the decline of physical education requirements in higher education. Brad Cardinal, a professor at Oregon State University, studied information from 354 randomly selected four-year colleges and universities. (see also Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) Deadlier than a hurricane (Pacific Standard) Enter Tuba Ozkan-Haller, now an [...]

Long-lost continent found under the Indian Ocean (Nature) Also, it does not seem as if the zircons rode to Mauritius on the wind, says Robert Duncan, a marine geologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis. “There’s a remote possibility that they were wind blown, but they’re probably too large to have done so,” he adds. [...]