Fake Banner
Vermont Should Stop Showing Leadership In Overruling Scientists On Farming

Despite Vermont's Agricultural  Innovation Board (AIB), created to inform regulatory recommendations...

Evolutionary Psychology: Your Parents Income During Pregnancy Made You Gay

Evolutionary psychology, the discipline that claimed we're being manipulated by flowers and evolved...

Oil Kept Congo From Starving - Western Academics Don't Seem To Like That

If even a wealthy like Germany has to lie about emissions to placate government-funded environmentalists...

China Sells Western Progressives Solar Panels While Switching To Nuclear Power

China has quietly overtaken France to become the world's second-largest producer of nuclear energy. ...

User picture.
picture for Tommaso Dorigopicture for Fred Phillipspicture for Jim Myrespicture for picture for Heidi Hendersonpicture for Hontas Farmer
Hank CampbellRSS Feed of this column.

I founded Science 2.0® in 2006 and since then it has become the world's largest independent science communications site, with over 300,000,000 direct readers and reach approaching one billion. Read More »

 Blogroll
Media Credibility Saved By New Cosmetic Surgery Journalism Prize

Media Credibility Saved By New Cosmetic Surgery Journalism Prize

Feb 17 2010 | comment(s)

The New Cosmetic Surgery Journalism Prize will be awarded by DDr. Heinrich for outstanding reporting on New Cosmetic Surgery techniques.

That's right, journalists. You can win a prize from a cosmetic surgery company if you simply write about the techniques used by their cosmetic surgery company.   Sure, it's like being a public relations flack but since it's a prize rather than a paid puff piece you won't feel dirty.


They want your contribution to be be well-researched and include general legal disclaimers and information, like that cosmetic surgery is not actually taught in public hospitals for a reason.

Eternity Soup - The Quiz To End Aging

Eternity Soup - The Quiz To End Aging

Feb 13 2010 | comment(s)

Scientific Blogging fave Greg Critser has a new book out, Eternity Soup: Inside The Quest To End Aging(available at fine retailers everywhere, or at that link if you want us to make a nickel) and in celebration he has put together a short quiz to find out what you know.
A Super Bowl Ad (And A Car Company) Environmental Mullahs Will Love

A Super Bowl Ad (And A Car Company) Environmental Mullahs Will Love

Feb 09 2010 | comment(s)

Let's be honest, both poles of the American political spectrum fear the same thing about each other; that if the other gets control a lot of oppressive weird stuff will happen.

If right-wing people get control, the presidency will carry a 'sponsored by Exxon" sign and 'gay' will be outlawed.  Not gay marriage - gay.   If left wing people get control, there will be mandatory gay porn in church and jackbooted enviro-fascists will kick down your doors if you don't compost your orange rinds.
Politicians Need A Lesson In Zoology

Politicians Need A Lesson In Zoology

Feb 05 2010 | comment(s)

Former failed CEO and current political candidate Carly Fiorina has campaign staff who don't mind thinking outside the box a little.

How far outside?   Portraying your opponent as a demonic animal with red glowing eyes and your constituents as sheep is pretty far out.

carly fiorina
Carly Fiorina.  And here I thought only the way she ran a  public company was insane.   

There's not much I can add to this, other than to be proud I witnessed a video event that media and journalism students decades from now will watch and study; sort of like that video of the Hindenburg bursting into flame, except Carly Fiorina's career flameout is a lot funnier.
Bloggy At Science Online 2010

Bloggy At Science Online 2010

Jan 15 2010 | comment(s)

Well, he did it again.  

The first thing you will be asking me is how Bloggy is off on another adventure with yet another blonde while I am stuck writing about it on the Internet.  It is a mystery of science.

Yet the little Lothario is off indeed, this time at ScienceOnline 2010 with our favorite Science Cheerleader, Darlene Cavalier.   
Practical Invisibility - An Earthquake Cloak

Practical Invisibility - An Earthquake Cloak

Jan 15 2010 | comment(s)

'Invisibility' has long been a staple of science fiction.  The ability to go unseen has benefits, mostly involving mischief, but there are some ways where being invisible need not involve the optical realm - it could involve the physical.   In a poor country like Haiti, where it would be impossible to retrofit all of the buildings to withstand an earthquake, it may soon be possible to make earthquakes simply pass them by.