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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

If a lot of the food and health claims you read and hear today seem like things left over from...

Are Baseball Pitchers Faster Today?

On September 7, 1974, pitching for the California Angels, Nolan Ryan, known for his velocity, became...

Ground-Nesting Bee Populations Don't Get Publicity But They're Everywhere

Honeybees get attention in environmental fundraising campaigns because people don't understand...

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Neutron Clock - Accurate For 14 Billion Years

Neutron Clock - Accurate For 14 Billion Years

Mar 20 2012 | comment(s)

Time is relative, of course, but we still hate to be late for appointments.  So there has always been research on making our keeping of time a little more accurate.

A new clock tied to the orbiting of a neutron around an atomic nucleus could have such unprecedented accuracy that it neither gains nor loses 1/20th of a second in 14 billion years - basically, you wouldn't have needed to reset your watch yet even if you had been around at the beginning of the Universe.
Understanding Social Science Speak - A Tuesday Puzzle

Understanding Social Science Speak - A Tuesday Puzzle

Mar 20 2012 | comment(s)

New York University cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor Allen Feldman is visiting the University of Sydney, notes the blog site of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI) - they named the site SOPHIstry, which may be a little too clever, since sophists in ancient times were the people real philosophers made fun of because they were trying to be too clever and prove up is down and other nonsense.
Coregasm Revisited: Sex At The Gym That Won't Get You Divorced

Coregasm Revisited: Sex At The Gym That Won't Get You Divorced

Mar 19 2012 | comment(s)

A study by Indiana University researchers on "coregasm" says it has confirmed anecdotal evidence that exercise can lead to female orgasms.

Good news for health clubs everywhere? Maybe.  But it's been darn hard to pin down reliable data on it.  It makes the media rounds - and of course, this site - every few years.
How To Get People On Food Stamps To Buy More Organic Food

How To Get People On Food Stamps To Buy More Organic Food

Mar 19 2012 | comment(s)

Food stamps are not food stamps now, they are the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits - and record numbers of Americans are receiving them.
The Myth Of The Green Young Person

The Myth Of The Green Young Person

Mar 17 2012 | comment(s)

Young people have to be greener, right?  That crying Indian commercial(1) was 40 years ago, we have to have made progress in pollution by now.

Well, we have.  But it's not because of young people. Young people are not more likely to be 'green' than their elders, they are less - in defiance of popular perception - just like right wing people conserve energy just as much as the left, despite the perception that they care less about conservation.
Soylent Pink: It's What's In Your Child's Lunch

Soylent Pink: It's What's In Your Child's Lunch

Mar 16 2012 | comment(s)

In our modern culture, we have both the politicization of science and the scientization of politics. They sound similar but the goals are different - the first obviously seeks to inject political agendas into science while the second seeks to make a political objective seem more rational by mapping it to a science topology.