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Debris Find- Likely Came From A Caravan

Debris Find- Likely Came From A Caravan Yet another mystery object turns out to be unrelated to missing flight MH370. FAIRFAX Media has received photos of the debris found near Augusta which investigators have since confirmed is not linked to the missing ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 24 2014 - 12:53pm

A hard-fought chess game

The 35th international chess tournament in Mogliano Veneto this year did not feature strong grandmasters or international masters, but a pack of 24 local players of average strength around 2150. Still, it was a very hard-fought competition, with almost no ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 28 2014 - 9:01am

MH370- Why Search Teams Ignored Georesonance

MH370- Why Search Teams Ignored Georesonance As soon as I read about the claims that Georesonance identified an aircraft wreck at the bottom of the Bay of Bengal my bogusness meter went off the scale.  A whois search shows the company is registered to a s ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 30 2014 - 6:24pm

You Like Me. You Really Like Me!

American Council on Science and Health is an advocacy group consisting of hundreds of scientists, doctors and policy experts devoted to science outreach. They've been around since the 1970s, when the core of their original group, including Nobel Laur ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 8 2014 - 4:51pm

Have An Idea For An Abandoned Mineshaft? You Could Get $21 Million

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has announced that the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is accepting applications for projects related to  abandoned mine drainage projects. You'll have to be a non-profit or a government agency to get gov ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2014 - 2:00am

Be An Expert- How To Simulate Your Own World Cup Projections

The World Cup is fast approaching and with it come no end to projections, estimations and forecasts about who is going to do what.  Using a Bayes analysis, once you reach the semifinal you have a 50 percent chance of being correct- just like flipping a coi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2014 - 6:00am

Burned Plan

“ The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves ….” Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Act 1, scene 2. Our fire problem has been a long time in the making. It did not happen overnight. We will not fix it overnight, perhaps we never will. Coeur d ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - Jun 10 2014 - 5:50pm

The Elbow-Lick Of Death

ZOOLOGISTS ANNOUNCED THE discovery of a tiny, super-cute new primate which can kill a human by licking its elbow. I am not making this up.  The new species of loris found in the Philippines has a poison gland at its elbow, says the American Journal of Pri ...

Blog Post - Nury Vittachi - Jun 28 2014 - 11:26am

Best Science Writers of 2014

How deep is science writing these days? Pretty darn deep. Way back when Science 2.0 started there were not a lot of great science writers. There were well-known ones, but not great ones. Journalism was in flux and mainstream media didn't respect it m ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 30 2014 - 9:48am

Going Deep With David Rees- Fun Science For The Family

"Going Deep" With David Rees premieres tonight on National Geographic Channel and if you have little time to decide whether or not to watch it, you are in luck because I can be brief- it's a good show. "Going Deep" is fun for all ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 14 2014 - 7:51pm