Feb 06 2012
I took a few days off from, well, everything. In hope that my shoulder would heal up a bit — it has been quite sore following a routine injury almost two weeks ago. I can report it has improved a tad, many thanks to those who humored my prior complaints, and I look forward to …
Jan 07 2012
I haven’t written much about HIV/AIDS denialism. It’s pseudo-science through and through, as lousy and underhanded as creationists are with the evidence for evolution or climate change deniars are with thermometer readings. They are sometimes allied with antivaxxers and other forms of quackery, but generally don’t neatly fit across the traditional left-right US political axis. …
Jan 04 2012
The thing about Antarctica is it’s cold. Really cold. As in an average temperature of about 15 F on the warmer coastline and even more frigid in the interior. So maybe it’s no surprise that warm seeps and hydrothermal vent communities in that neck of the woods would march to their own beat. That’s exactly …
Dec 28 2011
Headline, Yeti finger mystery solved using DNA. Guess what it is really is?
Nov 22 2011
With over 700 exo-solar planets and counting, the infant intersection between astronomy and biology grew a new two-tiered rating system intended to identify worlds of interest. The first tier is obvious: earth-like worlds in mass and temperature, where water is a liquid (And pizza is not a vegetable). But the other set is less familiar:
Nov 18 2011
Neuroscience is certainly nearing a climax, as this three-d map built using an active MRI of a female brain during orgasm indicates … it’s science I promise!
Nov 08 2011
The culture wars rage around embryonic stem cells vs. adult stem cells, there are pluripotent and totipotent cells, there are even cancer stem cells. But here’s a new stem cell technology we can all agree on: steak and burger stems cells! No, it’s not a joke, it’s real. At least that’s what a Dutch researcher …
Nov 08 2011
Two important votes in two very different states will test culture warriors and common sense today. Ohio voters go to the polls to vote on a recall of a recent bill pushed through by GOP Governor John Kasich restricting public employee unions — because nothing says constitutional liberty and small government like making it illegal for citizens to …
Oct 27 2011
If you know of uber right-wing warrior Ken Blackwell then you know that headline above reads like dog-bites-man. Blackwell was at it again on MSNBC’s Hardball Thursday evening, shilling for a personhood measure called Initiative 26 in Mississippi, where he tried to talk about the science of human development. Surprise! He mangles it hopelessly. Blackwell stated scientists – and the American people …
Oct 13 2011
It’s strongly suspected that Mars was warmer and wetter in the past. It had to be above the freezing temperature of water at various times for the geological evidence uncovered by a suite of probes to make sense. But now we have the first hard estimate of just how warm ancient Mars may have been:
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