Science & Society
- Supernovae and the City
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Recent events in the Chrematosphere * have brought the following to mind. It is from Fred Hoyle’s Frontiers of Astronomy, concerning the collapse of a giant star before it explodes as a supernova. The collapse ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Sep 22 2009 - 2:17pm
- Why Religion And Science Rarely Mix Well
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I'm not one of the more fundamentalist types in the broad science community who had any issue with Francis Collins leading the NIH. His credentials are impeccable and the same people who were backflipping with glee over Stephen Chu as Energy Secreta ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 24 2009 - 11:10pm
- Spanking and IQ
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Well, now we know that spanking results in lower IQs for children than those that aren't spanked. Of course, maybe once we figure out what IQ really means (if anything) this study might actually have some significance. "But the 2- to 4-year-olds ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Sep 24 2009 - 11:19pm
- Giant Landlocked Squid in Michigan!
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Okay, I know Michigan is practically an island, but that water is fresh, and there are no freshwater cephalopods (curious, yes? I will muse on that later!). So we can consider it landlocked from a squiddish perspective. And the giant squid isn't a rea ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Sep 25 2009 - 7:23pm
- Dear Penn And Teller: Bullshit!
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I like Penn&Teller, the magicians and debunkers of pseudoscience and general inanity. I regularly use clips from their show in my critical reasoning class, despite cringing every time Penn indulges in his “fuck this” and “motherfucker that” exercise i ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Sep 26 2009 - 1:16am
- Stock Robot Surprisingly Ignorant Of Squid Facts
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I was going to write about this article in the Kitsap Sun, which highlighted my advisor's recent research trip off the WA coast. I thought that was pretty cool, but the article had a few science points confused, so I was going to clarify them. But the ...
Article - Danna Staaf - Sep 27 2009 - 1:37pm
- Exercising Myths from TIME
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In the Aug. 9, 2009 issue of Time magazine there was an article entitled "Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin". In reading this article, I couldn't help but conclude that this was another series of bad correlations and misinformation that ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Sep 28 2009 - 5:52pm
- Improving Education
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A recent article entitled " Educators could learn a thing or two from the automotive industry, study finds " piqued my interest. "...explains how "Lean production" techniques have transformed the automotive, construction, and serv ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Sep 28 2009 - 9:33pm
- Anti-studies
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In the issue dated 10 October, Science News reports on a study that suggests that peer reviewers prefer positive results: ...
Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Sep 29 2009 - 12:59pm
- I Think "Diablo Rojo" is a Gringoism
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Journalists can't seem to write an article about Humboldt squid without mentioning their "Mexican name" diablo rojo. But in all my squid trips to the Gulf of California, I've never yet heard a Mexican fisherman use that term. At the squ ...
Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 1 2009 - 11:00pm
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