Humor
- Scientists As Portayed In Pop Culture Films: The Essential Top 10
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It's political primary season and you know what that means, right? Right, it's time to rent movies and think about something else. But you wouldn't be here if you could watch just any movies, you'd be a Huffington Post reader or Glenn B ...
Article - Cash Simpson - Jan 12 2008 - 2:13am
- "Have We Reached Peak Whale Oil?"
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I was puttering around the attic of the Cashominium, trying to sort through some old boxes, and I came across something you all might find interesting. Before any of this makes sense, I need to give you a little family background. Like many, the Cash famil ...
Article - Cash Simpson - Jun 7 2011 - 1:18pm
- How World War 3 Started: Obscure Poincaré Mathematics
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Russians, Americans and Chi-Coms all squared off against each other. Organized deception, intrigue, insults, reclusive personalities... another day in international politics? Not this time. It's mathematicians. You think physicists are strange? Try ...
Article - Cash Simpson - May 22 2009 - 1:22am
- The Science Of Relationships: Keeping The Magic Alive
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People are not always sure there is a science to relatonships until I spend a minute explaining it to them. Everything in the universe is about inductance. Inductance has lots of gobbledy-gook definitions that require you to know what a lot of other words ...
Article - Cash Simpson - Feb 17 2012 - 9:04pm
- Scientificblogging.com Goes On Acquisition Trail, Buys Scienceblogs.com
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, April 1 /PRNewswire/- Science 2.0/Web 2.0/Internet Media Darling/Start-Up Scientific Blogging announced today that it has agreed to acquire Scienceblogs.com, a unit of Seed Media, LLC, New York, New York. ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 25 2015 - 11:46am
- Falsification- Why Women And Scientists Make The Best Chess Players
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There is a good reason most Americans stink at chess- our unfailing optimism. No matter how bad things get with the economy or the environment or (insert your pet cause here) Americans will always believe that, because we have Christina Aguilera, we beat t ...
Article - Cash Simpson - Sep 7 2010 - 1:59pm
- Guide To Translating Scientific Papers Into Plain English
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Believe it or not, scientists do not always take themselves too seriously. We can laugh at ourselves and the sometimes rigid conventions of our profession. Take, for example, this guide to translating the formal language of scientific articles into plain ...
Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Aug 4 2011 - 1:31pm
- Important Weekend Science: The Bar Pick-Up
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Scientists like order and structure and methodology. Repeatability is even better, though that often requires additional grant funding. It's no different when it comes to weekends, bars and picking up science groupies. But it's not so simple, eve ...
Article - Cash Simpson - May 24 2008 - 4:13pm
- Museum Mailroom Supervisor Gets Catfish Species Named After Him
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He's not well known like President Bush and musician Neil Young, but Philadelphian Frank Gallagher now has something in common with them: He has a new species named after him. Gallagher was The Academy of Natural Sciences' affable mailroom superv ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2008 - 3:07pm
- Top Pet Surgery Shockers
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To mark the launch of the Pet Health Information website (http://www.pethealthinfo.org.uk), a nationwide search for 'it shouldn't happen to a pet' anecdotes to highlight the lack of awareness of pet health issues amongst owners has revealed ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2009 - 5:54pm