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Rainbow connection

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A scientist and journalist by training, I enjoy all things science, especially science-related humor. My column title is a throwback to Jane Austen's famous first line in Pride and Prejudice

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World to end in November

World to end in November

Aug 06 2009 | comment(s)

Take note - the world will come to an end in November. It will probably look somewhat like this:



Anyway, it's too bad we won't make it to 2012 to see if the Mayans were right, but I really don't want to live through another 2-year-long presidential election campaign so it all evens out.
What happens if you REALLY don't like the pharma industry

What happens if you REALLY don't like the pharma industry

Aug 04 2009 | comment(s)

Big Pharma gets a bad rap, and sometimes deservedly so. After covering the industry for a number of years and working with them (not for them), I know the good, the bad, and the ugly of industry well.

But no matter how bad the story is, I've never been tempted to go after someone's dead mom.
Science is arriving Sept. 1!!

Science is arriving Sept. 1!!

Aug 04 2009 | comment(s)

What's that, you say? Science is coming? I thought it was already here - then what are we talking about on Scientific Blogging?

Fear not, befuddled blog readers. For when I speak of science coming to us, I speak of only the most spectacular, the most enthralling, the most "these guys are off their rocker" of the scientific milieu. That's right, a They Might Be Giants album.
Something good comes out of New Jersey (no, really!)

Something good comes out of New Jersey (no, really!)

Jul 31 2009 | comment(s)

When your famous exports are Italian mobsters, meatball hoagies, and the horrid track suit + gold chain look, and more recently corrupt mayors/rabbis, you pounce on anything that can give you a little boost.

New Jersey is now second only to California in producing solar energy, now that its biggest utility company is outfitting 200,000 utility poles with solar panels, "part of the state's embrace of a try-anything strategy," the WSJ says.
Cereal Semantics

Cereal Semantics

Jul 29 2009 | comment(s)

This really takes the cake - or, the rice krispies, as it were.

As Josh so cleverly described, General Mills took one for the team when FDA sent a warning letter about the claim on GM's Cheerios box that it lowers cholesterol.

So when I saw "IMMUNITY" in splashy letters stretched across a box of Kellogg's Cocoa Krispies, I figured a warning letter would soon follow. But not so, according to Kellogg - and they may just be right.
Vindication for pale high-schoolers

Vindication for pale high-schoolers

Jul 29 2009 | comment(s)

Vindication! For all of you fake-bake tanners in high school who spent countless hours and money in tanning beds thinking you looked so much better with tan skin, there is an additional layer of medical support to line my "I told you so" folder.

BBC News reports that the International Agency for Research on Cancer says sunbeds and sunlamps are definitely carcinogenic to humans.