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Environmentalists, What Are You Asking From Dedmoroz Lenin For Earth Day This Year?

Tomorrow is Earth Day. It is also Lenin's birthday. That's not coincidence. The leader of...

How Ancel Keys Went From MAHA Hero To MAHA Villain

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Are Baseball Pitchers Faster Today?

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Cosmos Ratings Are Not A 'Disaster' For Fox

Cosmos Ratings Are Not A 'Disaster' For Fox

Mar 18 2014 | comment(s)

The Drudge Report is saying that "Cosmos" ratings are a disaster and, I as I discussed in Is "Cosmos" Suffering From Unrealistic Expectations? the overnights showed numbers down from the premiere, but that is hardly a disaster.



1) It's a science show. That a science show was on a prime time broadcast network - and took third place in its premiere - I would say is bordering on miraculous.
No, Pesticides Did Not Give Your Child A Tiny Penis - Or Autism

No, Pesticides Did Not Give Your Child A Tiny Penis - Or Autism

Mar 17 2014 | comment(s)

In mainstream media, everywhere from Fox News to Time (and here on Science 2.0, though with a little more skepticism) a
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Is "Cosmos" Suffering From Unrealistic Expectations?

Mar 17 2014 | comment(s)

In Five Things Neil deGrasseTyson’s “Cosmos” Gets Wrong at The Federalist 
Primordial Gravitational Waves - BICEP Experiment May Confirm Inflationary Theory?

Primordial Gravitational Waves - BICEP Experiment May Confirm Inflationary Theory?

Mar 15 2014 | comment(s)

BICEP, the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, is an experiment that used almost 100 detectors to scan the sky at microwave frequencies ( 100 GHz and 150 GHz, angular resolutions of 1.0° and 0.7°) in order to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB).
Cool Job In Biology: A Day In The Life Of A Beer Taster

Cool Job In Biology: A Day In The Life Of A Beer Taster

Mar 14 2014 | comment(s)

I play guitar but I don't play out for money. Aside from a high level of stage fright about playing guitar in public I think doing it for money would take away a lot of the relaxation.

That doesn't apply to all things. I write every day and always enjoy that. So at first blush I might be inclined to think a job tasting beer would be a bad thing, but perhaps it is just like writing and if you would do it for free anyway, you might as well get paid for it.
4.5 Things Cosmos Gets Wrong

4.5 Things Cosmos Gets Wrong

Mar 13 2014 | comment(s)

In The Federalist Today, I have a piece titled Five Things Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Cosmos” Gets Wrong.