Richard Dawkins has an irrational hatred of religion and zealotry is always creepy but when he remains rational, like in this talk with Deepak Chopra about Chopra's claims that quantum theory can heal people, there is no one better.

"It's a metaphor," Chopra says, before backtracking and speaking some mumbo jumbo about the observer effect and that physicists say it's possible to do ... well, I don't know what it will do. And neither does he.

More on the Usual Cheating in Science

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My series on cheating is about very disturbing trends in science. These posts will draw a gloomy picture about modern science. And I am not talking from the outside like philosophers in so called 'science studies', who mostly would not look at a test tube if you hit them over the head with one.

GSMA Announces Open Call For Entries For 16th Annual Global Mobile Awards

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Iomart Hosting Launches Racks 4 Acres Campaign To Support Rainforest Preservation

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Portaltech Launches L.K.Bennett Commerce App For The IPhone, ITouch And IPad

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The HR In Healthcare Forum Taking Place In Bahrain

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Improving Biomass Use Efficiency for Semi-Arid Regions

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Improving Biomass Use Efficiency for Semi-Arid Regions Anupam Tewari* and Ashwani Kumar Kautilya Institute of Technology Engineering* Energy Plantation Demonstration Project CentreDepartment of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 302004, India. Tel 00 91 141 2654100 Fax 00 91 141 2565905 E-mail: msku31@yahoo.com. ABSTRACT: Biomass refers to all the matter that can be obtained from photosynthesis. Most vegetable species use solar energy to create sugars from carbon dioxide and water. They store this energy in the form of glucose or starch molecules, oleaginous, cellulose, and lignocellulose .Biomass appears to be an attractive feedstock for three main reasons. First, it is a

Stephen Hawking Gives Up On Physics, Endorses M-Theory

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Peter Woit writes: Stephen Hawking has a new book out this week, called "The Grand Design" and written with Leonard Mlodinow, in which he effectively announces that he has given up on the traditional goals of fundamental physics in favor of anthropic arguments invoking a multiverse.

Instead, tired old M-theory is getting the nod. But there is also the issue of the potential damage caused by this to the cause of science funding in Britain ...

Science of NFL Football: Projectile Motion & Parabolas

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Part of the NSF and NFL's 10-part "Science of NFL Football" series. This one on projectile motion. Lester Holt is clearly out of his skin doing this stuff but it's good NBC is - they can always get Garth Sundem or someone else from Science 2.0 to do the color commentary if this catches on.