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Month: March 2011

This week’s Worst Headline award.

11 March 2011 grant b 0

…goes to PopSci for yesterday’s tragically incorrect Biggest Full Moon in 19 Years Almost Certainly Won’t Cause a Huge Natural Disaster:

Past supermoons have coincided

… Read the rest “This week’s Worst Headline award.”

Passively untrue?

11 March 2011 grant b 0

Science Daily actively engages readers with research that shows that a lack of fact-checking in articles undermines readers’ concept of truth:

The study found that people are more

… Read the rest “Passively untrue?”

Fit Britain.

10 March 2011 grant b 0

Is is just me or is the BBC sounding insufferably superior when it reports that the English are healthier than Americans:

But despite looking, the researchers did not find any real evidence

… Read the rest “Fit Britain.”

China’s nuclear future.

9 March 2011 grant b 0

The Guardian is looking clean, abundant and safe as it talks about China’s mission to do nuclear power better – with thorium:

Imagine how the nuclear energy debate might differ

… Read the rest “China’s nuclear future.”

Robot lawyers.

8 March 2011 grant b 0

It’s not news when more factory workers get laid off because their jobs have been automated. But New York Times seems to agree that when computers replace lawyers’ jobs, it’s… Read the rest “Robot lawyers.”

Kiss controller

7 March 2011 grant b 0

Why use your hands to manipulate the electronics, asks Georgia Tech digital artist Hye Yeon Nam, when you could use a little affection instead?:

Project Description
The Kiss Controller

… Read the rest “Kiss controller”

Science Art: Euterpe Teutamis &c. from Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies by William C. Hewitson, 1856

6 March 2011 grant b 0

Butterflies from the genus Euterpe, named for the muse of flute-playing and epic poetry known as the “giver of delight”… but also the name of a genus of South American… Read the rest “Science Art: Euterpe Teutamis &c. from Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies by William C. Hewitson, 1856”

Mass Extinction #6

4 March 2011 grant b 0

The death of the dinosaurs was just a drop in the bucket compared to some of the real mass extinction events out there. And PhysOrg thinks we may be at the beginning of a really big one:

“The

… Read the rest “Mass Extinction #6”

Sex, 40 million B.C.

3 March 2011 grant b 0

The book of love might be rewritten by each generation, but the pictures don’t change much. So MSNBC proves with its personal look at an intimate moment from a long, long, long time … Read the rest “Sex, 40 million B.C.”

Gotta go? Gotta choose!

2 March 2011 grant b 0

The Association for Psychological Science really put the pressure on our decision-making process by drinking a few cups of coffee and publishing possibly the strangest experimental … Read the rest “Gotta go? Gotta choose!”

Blood. Sweat. Horses.

1 March 2011 grant b 1

Archaeology Daily closes in on the real story behind ancient China’s legendary blood-sweating horses:

The bones of 80 horses unearthed from the mausoleum of a Chinese emperor who

… Read the rest “Blood. Sweat. Horses.”

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