November 2011
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson talks about infrasound as a...
October 2011
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Faster-than-light neutrino update: What's going on... →
The FTL neutrino study was published first on arXiv, which is a unique repository of pre-peer review announcements. So how does that affect how this story has been playing out?
arXiv isn’t peer reviewed. At least, not ahead of time.
A lot of the time, when you read a newspaper article about a new study in one of those fields, the study hasn’t actually yet been published in a...
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WatchPumpkin-blasting laser carves Medusa’s head into poor, unsuspecting pumpkin. Only at MIT!
(via New Scientist TV)
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NCBI ROFL: Halloween special feature flashback:... →
Awesomely spooky linkfest features real-life scientific papers with subjects ranging from “The Case of the Haunted Scrotum” to “Exorcism-resistant Ghost Possession Treated With Clopenthixol”
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WatchWhile watching the skies for a flyover of Italy’s SkyMed-2 satellite, amateur astronomer Kevin Fetter was treated to a surprise showing of China’s new space station module Tiangong 1 (which means “Sky Palace” in Chinese) also crossing his field of view!
(via Space.com)
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WatchThis Is Probably as Close as You’ll Get to Being an Astronaut:
Wow, thanks for rubbing it in, Atlantic editors :) I especially enjoyed seeing the thunderstorms around 0:30. Beautiful start to a Monday.
Plus a bit of Chopin for good measure.
(via The Atlantic)
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The Language Fossils Buried in Every Cell of Your... →
Noam Chomsky once wrote:
“As far as we know, possession of human language is associated with a specific type of mental organization, not simply a higher degree of intelligence. There seems to be no substance to the view that human language is simply a more complex instance of something to be found elsewhere in the animal world.”
Human language and its precursors seem to have...
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“We have the knowledge and the fact that oil sands are more CO2-polluting than...”
– Connie Hedegaard, EU Climate Chief
Science Shows Canada Oil Sand Fuels Are High-Risk
“Canada’s plans for tar sands will put the world on track for 6 degrees of warming, way past the globally accepted limit of 2 degrees,” said Franziska Achterberg of Greenpeace.
“Six...
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Quick Note: I am closing my “Ask” box for a short while. I have an absurd number of questions to get to. I answer 1 and get 4! When I get through all of my immense backlog (and I will publish as many as are appropriate), I’ll open it back up.
Until then, if you have something to tell me or ask that can’t wait (self control is a difficult and overrated character trait), you...
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mynameiscisco replied to your post: Gonna get dressed up in snazzy clothes this…
“Gonna get dressed up in snazzy clothes this weekend… ” and here i was hoping you’d come up with this awesome halloween costume ;P
What if “Me Dressed Up and Looking Awesome” is my Halloween costume?
As much as I would enjoy to wear a nice-fitting suit to lab every day, it wouldn’t really...
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circumventions replied to your post: Gonna get dressed up in snazzy clothes this…
question. does good whiskey give one hangover?
Everything gives you a hangover if you drink enough of it.
I’ll let you know if I make any breakthroughs in that department, though.
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Gonna get dressed up in snazzy clothes this weekend for my best friend’s wedding (not the movie). It’s no “SCIENTIST” t-shirt, of course, but maybe I’ll throw some on the page.
This reminds me that I need to get a camera that is not an iPhone one of these days.
Anyway, if I seem quiet this weekend it’s because I am drinking lots of whiskey with the amigos.
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psydoctor8 replied to your photo: Sex increases risk of being paralyzed, buried,…
bizzay.
I’m 94% sure that’s how locusts refer to it. The other 6% chance is a wing-induced chirp that sounds like “bow-chika-bow-wowww”. Hard to be sure. Studies needed.
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TV Fact-Checker: Inoculating "House" Against Bad... →
“There are different levels of ways to link two things together. If somebody has a twitching finger and you want to get to his brain, you might say he’s having a seizure in a certain part of his brain that might be linked to a tumor up there. That’s a well-known clinical relationship, though. If no such relationship exists then what I generally do is fall back on mechanistic connects — the...
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The Rising Value of a Science Degree →
“The report, based on Census and National Science Foundation data analyzed by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, shows that professions that depend heavily on skills learned in these fields are the second-fastest growing occupational group in the United States, after health care …
Compared with many other fields outside of these disciplines, STEM...
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“There’s something called false balance that happens in journalism, and it’s...”
– Shawn Otto (On Science Friday - Discussing the marginalization of science in politics)
J - False balance leads science journalists (or really “journalists covering science” since there are so few of the previous left) to assume that equal time equals equal merit. And even if they do...
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