#science

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http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/04/look-at-this-...

If you're wondering where science is at these days, look here. It's a bloke in a tent with a drill,...

alasdairw May 05, 2011

http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full

This needs to do the rounds in a very big way. You know all those vaccine scares that are picked up...

alasdairw Jan 07, 2011

http://discovermagazine.com/1997/nov/quantumhoneyb...

The waggle-dance that bees use to communicate appears to be a function of 6 dimensional topography....

alasdairw Nov 16, 2010

http://news.ucsc.edu/2010/09/planet.html

And yet we're still not funding space travel properly. What's up with that?

alasdairw Sep 30, 2010

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientis...

A savage, brilliant deconstruction of the problems with the way science is reported in the press. P...

alasdairw Sep 27, 2010

http://modernistcuisine.com/

On the one hand: I would cook almost nothing from this. And it is hugely, hugely expensive. On the...

alasdairw Aug 27, 2010

http://sciencedigestive.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-ap...

In case were weren't aware NHS Tayside are offering a £68,000 a year job for a fucking homeopath, de...

alasdairw Aug 17, 2010

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/bridging_the_chasm_b...

Some good stuff in here - a clear articulation of why the language of skepticism does not get throug...

alasdairw Aug 10, 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7904712/Quantum...

My brain hurts. Of possibly it will hurt in the future, and the quantum-level changes have moved ba...

alasdairw Jul 28, 2010

http://www.ufunk.net/en/humour/eizo-pin-up-calenda...

I can't quite decide what I think of this. One balance, yes, I think I would like to have this cale...

alasdairw Jun 17, 2010

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/03/mr_bond_y...

A New Zealand company is going to make and see personal jetpacks. You can all stop your whining now...

alasdairw Mar 05, 2010

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/...

I'm sure we didn't get stories about things like this 15 years ago. One might almost think that the...

alasdairw Mar 04, 2010

http://www.1023.org.uk/

Just in case anyone reading this has been dropped on their head recently, here's a campaign aiming t...

alasdairw Jan 19, 2010