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Alcohol Causes Cancer - How Much Shouldn't Even Enter Your Thoughts

A doctor who told you to smoke cigarettes "in moderation" would likely lose their license, but...

The Hemp Industry Has A Placebo For Your PFAS Chemophobia

Environmental activists have claimed for decades that PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances)...

TSCA: Here Is What You Need To Know About EPA Taking A New Look At Formaldehyde

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Sending Health Care To Homes Is Better And Cheaper Than Hospital Stays

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'Green' Fireworks For 4th Of July - Can You Get The Same Boom With Less Pollution?

'Green' Fireworks For 4th Of July - Can You Get The Same Boom With Less Pollution?

Jul 02 2009 | comment(s)

If you're like us, you are eagerly awaiting those July 4 fireworks displays because you get to blow stuff up using science (not just the US, Canada too, though they picked the wrong day by using July 1 for  Canada Day celebrations) - if only we could have awesome fireworks yet not ruin the planet.

Maybe we can.  A new generation of "green" fireworks is trying to take off.  Hint: that's "green" as in environmentally friendly.  And take off as in ... oh, never mind.
Tangential Science

Tangential Science

Jul 02 2009 | comment(s)

Tangential Science: It isn't necessarily science, but it's still funny.

1. Want a business card made out of meat and lasers? You're in luck! Meat Cards is having a contest to win one. All you have to do is recreate a classic Frank Frazetta poster and you can win, you guessed it, a meat card, which is basically beef jerky with laser writing on it.   I kind of wish I had thought of this first.


Nature Methods Gets Drosophila Wrong

Nature Methods Gets Drosophila Wrong

Jun 22 2009 | comment(s)

Drosophila can't catch a break.  Even Nature, which never runs a press release about one of its studies without putting 'prestigious' in front of its name, fell prey to a glaring error regarding the little critter, as seen on the cover of Nature Methods.

The problem?  The cover attached, presumably, to "Tools for Drosophila" article is  not actually Drosophila.
Save The Date: AAAS Symposium On Communicating Science to the Public August 17th 2009

Save The Date: AAAS Symposium On Communicating Science to the Public August 17th 2009

Jun 22 2009 | comment(s)

If you happen to be in the San Francisco metropolitan area the week of August 16th, 2009 and can't get enough science, I'll be emcee'ing a symposium on communicating science to the public at the 90th Annual Meeting of the AAAS pacific region.
Scientific Blogging Fave Jane Poynter TED Talk

Scientific Blogging Fave Jane Poynter TED Talk

Jun 20 2009 | comment(s)

Here's a 15 minute video of Scientific Blogging featured writer Jane Poynter talking about her 2 years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2, along with what she is doing to save Biosphere 1 (errrr, that would be Earth).
Sometimes we all need to just stop and ...

Sometimes we all need to just stop and ...

Jun 17 2009 | comment(s)

stop hammertime

I was outside the target demographic of this dance (though I can moonwalk like no one's business) but if I were going to pick up a retro dance, this would be a cool one.