Science & Society

Aspirations of winning the Nobel? Maybe a purchase at this shop will help you along your journey. Or at least you can say you knew the shop back when it was just a little shop in Philadelphia, instead of a famous retail laureate. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Apr 12 2009 - 3:46pm

When Salmonella Met Pistachio

If it happened once, can it happen again? Yes, it can but we would still desire pistachio nuts sans Salmonella. Beyond our poetic pistachio passion, these tasty nuts are good for us. Last year, researchers at Penn State concluded pistachios reduce inflamm ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Apr 15 2009 - 12:13pm

Happy Birthday, Sweety!! (No cake for you)

Happy Birthday to you, the sweeties who don't even eat cake! I am honoring here three sweet ones. One that just turned one today. OK I don't even know her but she must be sweet like all baby girls. The other is Barbie who is 50 this year. She su ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Apr 13 2009 - 9:16pm

Facebook Users Have Lower Grades, Says Pilot Study

Is Facebook that addictive or is a new pilot study correlating Facebook use to lower grades simple picking on the big gorilla of social media? 75 Percent of Facebook users claimed that their use of the social networking site didn't interfere with th ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2009 - 1:01pm

How Not To Sell Viagra (Part I)

Over the past few weeks, more spam has been slipping through to my Gmail inbox. Consider: The oddly named Jule Cuc enthusiastically offers college Dip1omas [sic]: “At your own pace! No examination! No study! No classes!” Kieth l. Black is cautiously optimi ...

Article - Dan Gillick - Apr 14 2009 - 7:19pm

Low Glycemic Breakfast Boosts Work Out, Says Study

The benefits of physical activity and a balanced diet are well documented and form the basis of many public health recommendations; this is because each of these factors can independently influence risks for many chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 di ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2009 - 11:29am

Scales of Depravity, Part 2: Reality

After participating in The Depravity Scale survey (see part 1 of this post for more on the scale and The Rock of Love Bus), I brainstormed with my fellow survey taker for more uses for the depravity scale. We came up with quite a few- some publishable, som ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Apr 14 2009 - 9:44pm

Confirmed for WCSJ 2009

This short post is my first contribution to ScientificBlogging: with it I am relocating my blog here from wordpress. I am thrilled by the opportunity to join a larger group of excellent science writers, and possibly reach a larger audience interested in p ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 15 2009 - 6:09am

Hands–on experience of Science in our School

India is a huge country. It has the richest cultural diversity, at the same time its economic diversity is also staggering. There are extremely rich people and also appalling poorer people. This imbalance is being reflected in all fields, but more in our e ...

Blog Post - Radha Krishna - Apr 15 2009 - 12:11pm

The Autism Speaks Brain Bank, part 2.

This next in my series on Brain donation is of necessity going to seem partisan as the principal objection to this particular programme cannot help but be critical of the organization that is sponsoring it since the objection in part has to do with the cli ...

Blog Post - Laurence Arnold - Apr 16 2009 - 1:30pm