This week’s Worst Headline award.
…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 […]
Month: March 2011
Passively untrue?
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 […]
Fit Britain.
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 […]
China’s nuclear future.
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 […]
Robot lawyers.
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 […]
Kiss controller
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 […]
Science Art: Euterpe Teutamis &c. from Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies by William C. Hewitson, 1856
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 […]
Mass Extinction #6
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 […]
Sex, 40 million B.C.
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 […]
Gotta go? Gotta choose!
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 […]
Blood. Sweat. Horses.
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 […]