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Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Nov 9 2013 - 10:05am

Zombies Are All About The Heteronormative Power Struggle

Zombies are really popular- "...and zombies" attached to the end of well-established works of fiction have become a common trope and once they began to swarm over the literary canon, it was only a matter of time before English Lit academics began ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2013 - 7:50am

Last-Minute Science Gifts For Christmas

Given the flakiness and rush of shipping at this time of year, if you intend to order something online, you really need to do it today. Sure, you can take a flyer on next week but if you have Amazon Prime and its two-day free shipping, today is the way to ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 18 2013 - 2:39pm

I don’t belong here

Recently a friend of mine got diagnosed with breast cancer.   It was devastating, and she started to go through the usual stages that people do when dealing with tragic news.   My wife told me that when she brought her in for her first chemo treatment, tha ...

Blog Post - Doctor Z - Jan 2 2014 - 7:10pm

Putting It Plainly, Your Content Stinks

Twice a day I get an email from someone offering me the outstanding opportunity to carry their infographic, press release or puff-piece interview with someone who has invented a new Miracle Cure and if it seems like it was written by a real person, I will ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 27 2018 - 4:43pm

Weekend Science: Liberals Love Liquor

Sociologists and psychologists know how to get attention- make a crazy claim based on correlations in population data or surveys of college students, use terms like factor analysis and p-value and statistical significance, and it will get into a journal. S ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 31 2014 - 6:13pm

Missed It By That Much...

For THE WIRED WORLD IN 2013 annual prognostication issue, predictions for the year by some of the luminaries in science media, I predicted that one of the Big 5 organs would be created. The benefit is obvious; organs created from a patient's own adult ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 20 2014 - 7:05pm

Why Whole Foods Pseudoscience Gets A Free Pass

American science media is constantly going on about evolution and climate change deniers- sometimes even inventing assaults on evolution that don't exist- but when it comes to quasi-religious beliefs about energy and medical science, we get a whole sl ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 11 2014 - 7:24am

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey- The Review

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality- Carl Sagan I missed the big Carl Sagan thing when it happened. I was in high school when Cosmos came out, we lived in the country and if you wanted to watch a diffe ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 10 2014 - 2:12pm

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370- Pieces Of The Puzzle

MH370- Pieces Of The Puzzle Edit- please see new article- Could A Fire Have Caused The Loss Of MH370? There has been a great amount of idle speculation and misinformation about the missing flight MH370 in the media and around the web.  Much of the news st ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 7 2014 - 6:22pm