Do you use sunscreen?  If not, you aren't as crazy as those anti-science hippies who are trying to give their kids smallpox or starve poor nations, but you are not exactly up on the literature of the last 30 years either.

However, you may be no worse off, especially if you are a woman who might like to keep her uterus working. The uterus - that special place where a baby grows(1) when a woman gets pregnant - can sometimes have its tissue misplaced.  That's called endometriosis and it is when the tissue that normally lines the uterus is instead growing somewhere else. It can lead to heavy periods and even infertility.  While researchers know what it is, they don't really know why it happens.

The Being Human conference was held yesterday, March 24th, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Part of its description is " insights from science and philosophy shed new light on the processes of human experience – the how of feeling, thinking, and believing – and invite us to redefine who we are as human beings."

When Energy Secretary Steven Chu was appointed, it was a bit of a policy worry.  Yes, he has a Nobel prize in physics but being a scientist has never shown to be any great benefit for policy. Despite the myth that scientists are stoic and serious and unemotionally obeying the Scientific Method it isn't the case at all.  Like all other people, they have irrational fixations, and Chu's was a belief that CO2 was the only driver in climate change, which meant we might have a bunch of expensive solutions that actually solve nothing in climate change.