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Anti-Science EU: Water Does Not Prevent Dehydration

Nov 18 2011 | comment(s)

The EU is everything that can go wrong with bloated, inclusive bureaucracy. Their proposed constitution had bits of bizarre legal fluff like 'children have a right to be heard', they don't want a strong currency because it damages their individual, heavily subsidized economies if they have to pay more to stay competitive and they make being anti-science into an art form.

Eye Evolution Gets Its 'War And Peace'

Nov 18 2011 | comment(s)

One of the biggest difficulties in understanding and acceptance of evolutionary biology is the eye. It isn't just detractors who are trying to protect a sectarian viewpoint, it is genuinely curious people, smart people, who don't get it because it isn't easy. Science is difficult and, inside science, evolution is difficult. We've even had prominent biologists here submit the idea that perhaps, given its difficulty, evolution might be better reserved for college students, the same way quantum mechanics is reserved in physics and surgery is reserved for actual doctors even though high school students learn anatomy.

Can A Numerical Model Predict Geopolitics?

Nov 17 2011 | comment(s)

Numerical models had a tough decade to start off the 2000s. A field that had shown itself to be both scientific and applied in areas like semiconductor physics was extrapolated out to cultural issues and economics and successfully predicted...nothing.

A new model created by an international research group claims they can now predict which European countries are more likely to become united or which are more likely to break up. It does so by not only considering demographic and economic criteria but also culture and genetics.

What? Europe? No predicting the Arab Spring? No riots in China?

Roger Pielke, Jr. Probably Isn't Buying This Book

Nov 16 2011 | comment(s)

Roger Pielke, Jr. is one of the most authentic science communicators around. When the science is solid, he supports it, regardless of the political or cultural implications, and when it is crap, he ridicules it.

Really, that is what everyone in science media should do, but Pielke is one of few progressives who ridicule both sides when they say stupid things.

PETA Declares War On Your Nintendo

Nov 16 2011 | comment(s)

So People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals doesn't like Super Mario. Really, I don't either. Wasn't he the bad guy in Donkey Kong? Donkey Kong was the name of the game, after all, and the big primate only steals Pauline because Mario was a mean jerk to him. How did he suddenly become a good guy?

Oh, that was 30 years ago?

I am trapped in the past, just like PETA. Though they are trapped in the 17th century and I am only trapped in 1981, long after animal testing achieved pretty much every advance in medical science, that stuff the anti-science hippies at PETA refuse to acknowledge.

Oxygen - The Frenemy Of Proteins

Nov 13 2011 | comment(s)

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, an old saying goes. Roman, Arabic or Chinese, it doesn't matter who claims to have credit for immortalizing it first, people have known it to be true since there were more than two people.

Since physicists love Alice and Bob, we can make a psychological dissonance graphic also by introducing a third character, Carol. If the solid lines are positive and dashes are negative, there is equilibrium as long as everyone is an enemy or everyone is a friend. It is where there is one enemy that games of "Risk" really get played.