Fake Banner
Why Raw Dairy Farms In California Accelerated The H5N1 Bird Flu Pandemic

Californis is the largest dairy producer in the United States. It is also the most anti-science...

Affirmative Action In NIH Grants Revealed

The Supreme Court recently issued another ruling that seeks to end racial discrimination. most...

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...

User picture.
picture for Tommaso Dorigopicture for Heidi Hendersonpicture for Fred Phillipspicture for picture for Hontas Farmerpicture for Atreyee Bhattacharya
Hank CampbellRSS Feed of this column.

I founded Science 2.0® in 2006 and since then it has become the world's largest independent science communications site, with over 300,000,000 direct readers and reach approaching one billion. Read More »

 Blogroll
Happy Halloween - if you didn't watch my

Happy Halloween - if you didn't watch my "5 Movies for Halloween" you can still watch these videos

Oct 31 2010 | comment(s)

I get that not everyone will devote two hours each night, or 10 hours over a weekend, to pumpkin carving a Death Star...

death star pumpkin

 ...or watching 5 terrific Halloween movies, but even if your attention span runs more toward Twitter than IMDB, here are at least a few videos you can try:
5 Days Of Halloween Movies:

5 Days Of Halloween Movies: "The 13th Warrior"

Oct 31 2010 | comment(s)

After "Five Million Miles to Earth" and "Dead of Night" we get to something a little more modern in our 5 Days of Halloween Movies.

"Dead Of Night": The Horror Movie That Inspired Hoyle's Steady State Model

Oct 30 2010 | comment(s)

After watching "Five Million Years To Earth", a terrific mix of science, horror and anthropology, it's no crime to associate British horror cinema with Hammer Films, even though that was not one of the bloody Dracula films which earned them their fame.
Early photographic image of humans discovered?

Early photographic image of humans discovered?

Oct 28 2010 | comment(s)

It isn't the first photograph of humans but two men near the river's edge in a photo of Cincinnati taken in 1848 is kind of a big deal among photography historians.

"Life of Pi": How to make 3-D movies interesting

Oct 27 2010 | comment(s)

In the 1980s, computer generated characters were the rage so people were always looking for a way to use them in films, regardless of whether or not it helped or hurt the story.   So it goes with 3-D in movies today.

For those who don't wear glasses, it is an annoyance and for people who do wear glasses, it is twice the annoyance, but everyone is making 3-D movies because...everyone else is making 3-D movies.
The Math Of Baseball: Bayes Takes On The World Series

The Math Of Baseball: Bayes Takes On The World Series

Oct 26 2010 | comment(s)

It's playoff time in baseball and the Giants have home field advantage over the Texas Rangers starting tomorrow, October 27th.

Baseball, more so than any other sport, lends itself to numerical analysis because virtually everything except defense is rigorously quantifiable.   There are some details, such as an umpire who might call a wider strike zone than another, but at least from a rules perspective the strike zone is what it is.