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Spring Forward Fall Back: We Hate Changing Clocks But Hate One Change Most

In 1918, with Gen Black Jack Pershing off to France to stop the Germans in World War I, the United...

Canadian Epidemiologists Claim Processed Foods Cause Bad Kids

A cohort analysis of preschoolers in Canada has led the authors of the paper to call for bans...

What AI Can't Do: Humanity’s Last Exam

By this time 26 years ago, the "Dot-Com Bubble" was ready to burst. People who wanted to raise...

Does NBA Income Inequality Impact Team Performance?

A new paper says that players where a few superstars get the money leads to less cooperation and...

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Valentine's Day 6,000 BC: Phallic Carvings And Sex Cults

Valentine's Day 6,000 BC: Phallic Carvings And Sex Cults

Feb 13 2015 | comment(s)

We tend to think society is more sexualized today but perhaps it's only now that the common people are getting it on the way elites once did.

In the Eilat Mountain region around Nahal Roded in Israel, recently discovered sites look distinct from other ones nearby: They have 126 ‘regular’ standing stones along with perforated ones and anthropomorphic stone images to go with them.  The tools date back to the Neolithic period - before pottery.
Charles Darwin And A Koch Brother Everyone In Science Academia Can Like

Charles Darwin And A Koch Brother Everyone In Science Academia Can Like

Feb 12 2015 | comment(s)


Everyone has heard of Louis Pasteur - most people know that pasteurization is a process of sterilizing food to make it safer. (1) And today is Darwin Day, when Charles Darwin is fêted for his work on evolution and natural selection.

Fewer people have heard of Robert Koch, though he is responsible for keeping billions of people alive in much the same way Pasteur is.
SB 203: California's New Warning Label Drive Targets Soda, But Not Sugar-Filled Juice

SB 203: California's New Warning Label Drive Targets Soda, But Not Sugar-Filled Juice

Feb 11 2015 | comment(s)

A California Democrat believes he can curb diabetes by requiring warning labels on sodas and energy drinks.

Warning labels are not new to Californians. Ever since Proposition 65 required the ubiquitous 'may cause cancer' signage in virtually every business, lawyers and the politicians they lobby have been seeking to duplicate it for their pet causes. 
What Californians Of 2015 Share With 1991 Religious Fundamentalists

What Californians Of 2015 Share With 1991 Religious Fundamentalists

Feb 11 2015 | comment(s)

In this century, vaccine denial is primarily located in progressive hotbeds of states like California, rooted in distrust of science. It's an embarrassment for Democrats, who pride themselves on being more scientific than Republicans, to see that right-wing states like Mississippi and Alabama have negligible exemption rates while supposedly more educated places like California, Washington and Oregon lead the charge in bringing back dangerous infectious diseases.
Can You Be An SS Doctor In A Nazi Concentration Camp And Still Be A Good Guy?

Can You Be An SS Doctor In A Nazi Concentration Camp And Still Be A Good Guy?

Feb 03 2015 | comment(s)

In 1993, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan gave us "defining deviancy down", a clever bit of alliteration based on the work of sociologist Emile Durkheim from his defining work of 1895. Durkheim wrote that crime is normal, it is going to happen, but by defining what is deviant, a community decides what is not and creates a reasonable standard for living together. 
Noroviruses Could Soon Be Killed With A Hand-Held Cold Plasma Pistol

Noroviruses Could Soon Be Killed With A Hand-Held Cold Plasma Pistol

Jan 31 2015 | comment(s)


I am a firm believer that physics is the One Science To Rule Them All and can accomplish almost anything, but I had not predicted that the "fourth state of matter" - non-thermal plasma - could show immunology how it's done and kill off noroviruses, the most common cause of non-bacterial gastroenteritis around the world that gets fame far too often for making people sick on things like cruise ships.