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Useless research done here!
TPP must make a confession: in his long scientific career he has never studied a damned thing that was “useful” meaning studies that will had immediately useful results for human problems. They were...
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Stop teaching calculus in high school
Math education needs a reboot. Kids today are growing up into a world awash in data, and they need new skills to make sense of it all. The list of high school math courses in the U.S. hasn’t changed...
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The problem with Food Babe
The Charlotte Observer has a good article on Food Babe, a health and nutrition activist who has been responsible for many a scientist and science writer's heartburn over the last few years, and not for...
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Barbarians and their enablers
You give a kid a BB gun, and sooner or later he'll shoot it at some windows. It's a given of human nature. You give rebels, terrorists, or even some other type of militia under limited central control...
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Death of the fittest
This is imho an excessively beautiful figure! I keep staring at it getting thrills, and bliss pours over me as I explore its intricacies. This is evolution.Click to enlarge.(You should enjoy this...
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How quantum mechanics explains global warming
posted by @ulaulaman about #globalwarming http://t.co/VDlaEt2s5m The physician Mark Schleupner, a Ronaoke native, writes about global warming: So, according to NASA scientists, if all the ice in 14...
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How to kill an iZombie
Sometime back TPP commented on iPhone zombies, but a similar affliction can also occur due to ear buds and whatever they are delivering from an iPod, so the result is an iZombie. Like all zombies, you...
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Robert Kennedy's Anti-Vaccine Craziness
Robert Kennedy is obsessed with the notion that vaccines cause autism. He’s particularly obsessed with the discredited idea that thimerosal, a preservative used in some vaccines, causes autism. Now...
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Weeds, weeds, weeds!
The Phactors don't want to talk about weeds; it's been a very bad year. Black nightshade, poke weed, wild lettuce, lambs quarter, and Oxalis (Not sure about the species, probably O. stricta; too busy...
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Bad news
Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry after reading or watching the news. There's the middle eastern living laboratory for demonstrating that tit-for-tat (or is it tit-for-TAT?) is always a...
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Great mid-summer flowering - bottle-brush buckeye
A native to south-eastern North America, the bottle-brush buckeye (Aesculus parviflora) is hard to beat for summer flowering. The Phactors have several growing as part of a semi-shady border, and they...
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Gods, phylosophy and computers
by @ulaulaman http://t.co/Q3AODpvKAs #Godel #ontologicalproof #god #computer The ontological arguments for the existence of God was introduced for the first time by St. Anselm in 1078: God, by...
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Giant Centipedes (That Aren't All Giants)
Scolopendra morsitans, copyright Jiri Lochman/Lochman Transparencies.It was a dark night, but not stormy (nights tend to be dark, as a rule). We were out collecting for our regular survey when we...
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That's one strange Thai temple
TPP has been to Thailand several times, and in the process traveled the country from top to bottom and side to side. Somehow TPP missed (?) this temple, Wat Rong Khun, a contemporary religious study in...
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Fundamentalists try to set those godless Unitarian-Universalist heathens...
In a total and absolute reversal of the golden rule, a group of fundamentalist Christians (they come in other flavors) invaded a UU church, well known to be a “Synagogue of Satan", during a service to...
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Fifty years of CP violation
via @CERN http://t.co/9Rac42mBVh #CPviolation #CPsymmetry #matter #antimatter The CP violation is a violation of the CP-symmetry, a combination between the charge conjugation symmetry (C) and the...
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The Championships' Final
by @ulaulaman via @Airi_Talk about #WorldCup2014 #Brazil2014 predictions: #ESP-#GER Jürgen Gerhards, Michael Mutz and Gert Wagner developed an economic model in order to predict the results of the...
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Cell Phone Microscopy
micro phone lens packagingand case In my pursuit of portable microscopy I came across this product initially funded through Kickstarter. The micro phone lens is a small plastic disc that sticks to a...
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Magic Singlish
A number of non-native English speakers get "Singaporean" as the top guess for their native language. You can actually see that by playing around in our dialect navigator. Here's screenshot of a...
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The Diversity of Neosauropods, or Pity Poor Camarasaurus
Articulated skeleton of juvenile Camarasaurus lentus in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, photographed by Daderot.Let me just get the obvious out of the way first: sauropods were huge....
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