Southerners aren’t fatter. Just more honest.
AL.com showcases some science that sets straight some old stereotypes. Southerners don’t have bigger guts than Americans from the North or the West. They just […]
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The power of diagrams. The beauty of diagrams.
SciAm blogger Clarissa Ai Ling Lee reflects on the science and art of visualizing information: Of course, there were records of politics, observations of particular […]
Forbes follows how science gets started up.
Frida Polli, one of the financial folks at Forbes, is offering us a look at the sausage-factory of neuroscience funding: In 2007, after 6 years […]
Journals without publishers.
Sounds unnatural or absurd, doesn’t it? But that’s what the internet is making possible, according to Nature (whose publishers should be a little worried). Researchers […]
Flame Challenge returns… with TIME.
Remember Alan Alda’s quest to explain what a flame is so an 11-year-old would understand? He’s polled hundreds of elementary-school kids and is asking another […]
Genetical book review
Lost in Transcription’s “genetical book review” is a great idea executed well. Not a review of books as literature, but a review of the science […]
Tanzi is a rock star.
Boston Globe profiles the geneticist and Alzheimer’s expert who played organ on Aerosmith’s last album: It was 2009 when Dr. Rudy Tanzi was asked to […]
Italy imprisons seismologists for failing at earthquake warning.
And let me tell you, Nature is none too pleased: The meeting was unusually quick, and was followed by a press conference at which the […]
Scientists: You can’t trust scientists.
Fraud, reports Laboratory Equipment, is a growing problem in published research papers: A review of retractions in medical and biological peer-reviewed journals finds the percentage […]
Happy birthday, Neil deGrasse Tyson
I’m taking a moment, with Archie McPhee, to celebrate the birth of a science dude. Dude!
Medical science: Not all it’s cracked up to be
Me, I love science. New Scientist does too. So it makes us feel weird to point out that a lot of the time, it just […]
Bill Gates to build a better toilet.
Mac fans should have a *field day* coming up with headlines for this ABC.net.au piece on Bill Gates’ noble new quest – to reinvent the […]
SONG: National Primate Home
SONG: “National Primate Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Call for NIH research chimpanzees to be retired”, Nature, […]
Chimp retirement plan.
Nature echoes the call for the National Institutes of Health to create a humane retirement plan for their primate research assistants: Last December, a report […]
GZA from Wu-Tang is making an album… with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (and other scientists)
What more needs to be said? Wall Street Journal has the skinny on Dark Matter: On an early May afternoon in the offices of Neil […]