Random Thoughts

It's now almost Midnight in Moscow, so it's already tomorrow in China. Therefore may I take this opportunity to wish all readers of Scientific Blogging... ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Feb 13 2010 - 3:55pm

Eco-friendly gifts- but definitely not wallet-friendly

Have a look at these from the Times (link below): http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6931417.ece?slideshowPopup=true&articleId=6931417&nSlide=1&sectionName=NewsEnvironment As for the H20 clock, would Victor Meldrew have be ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Feb 15 2010 - 1:34pm

Are Your Kids Overweight? Blame It On Product Placement

It seems that everything except the causes of childhood obesity receive blame for childhood obesity. While common sense and plenty of research indicate that parents and social setting are the primary influences on children's eating habits, the effort ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2010 - 10:48pm

Knowledge Should Inform Belief

Knowledge Should Inform Belief Unfortunately, belief is all too often used as an excuse for selectively ignoring knowledge.... real-world knowledge does not exist simply to be cherry-picked according to one’s own beliefs, but to be made sense of, and to f ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 15 2010 - 7:03pm

Business Owners Say TV Entrepreneurs Don't Reflect Real Life

The way celebrity entrepreneurs are depicted by the media doesn't illustrate what it's really like to start up and run businesses, according to a survey of small business owners and business advisers from Nottingham University Business School. Fo ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2010 - 11:49am

Party Competition, Modest Lawmaker Salaries Best Cures For Corrupt Politics

Vigorous two-party competition and modest salaries for lawmkaers are key to preventing pork barrel legislation and other bills that benefit only one lawmaker's constituents, finds a new study of state lawmaking published in the American Political Scie ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2010 - 11:52am

Morning Science Quote

'If you begin by treating the scientific ideas of earlier centuries as myths, you will end by treating your own scientific ideas as dogmas': we have tried, throughout this book, to display the developing character of the scientific endeavor, and ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 18 2010 - 6:01am

How Effective Is Facebook Marketing? Very, New Survey Says

The popular social networking site facebook is for more than just keeping in touch with friends and sharing photos, according to a new survey in the Harvard Business Review. Companies that use the popular social-media site and its fan page module to market ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2010 - 12:09pm

Blogging The 2010 AAAS Day Two

Day one if you missed it. Science is sometimes about taking a hunch and amassing data to confirm the hypothesis. I am still amassing data but I am reasonably sure the way to know there is a convention of physical therapists nearby is to look for all th ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 20 2010 - 11:20pm

More Liquor Stores Mean More Violence, Study Suggests

A new study by researchers at Indiana University suggests that there may be a link between the number of 'alcohol sales sites' in a neighborhood and the amount of violence that neighborhood experiences. The higher the former, the higher the latte ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2010 - 12:07pm