Science and technology links
A funny post about how males and females name colours.
That octopus has grabbed my camera!
Getting a car to explode after going over a cliff is harder than one might expect.
A mathematical model for marital break-ups.
A brilliant speech in favour of science.
Being sanguine about the effects of new technology.
Beware of the terrifying homeopathic bomb! British Medical Association declares homeopathy to be witchcraft.
Mapping “touristness” by photo uploads.
Study finds that children get increasingly meritocratic in their moral judgements as they get older. About religion, science and a mathematician who works on the mathematics of altruism.
Longitudinal study of children raised by lesbian couples finds significant positives and no sign of adverse psychological adjustment.
Nice little discussion of cause, effect, correlation based on a report that brushing your teeth lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
Study finds the health dangers of obesity have been seriously overstated. Evidence that lifestyle is more important than health care policy: Mormons in the US live longer than Swedes. Billionaires live 3.5 years longer than the American average, but not as long as Mormons.
The problem with generating energy from waves is waves with too much energy.
Inuit say polar bears are doing fine.
Claiming the internet favours liberals more than conservatives. It also favours dissent more than institutional orthodoxy: effects that do not necessarily move in the same direction.
Time to tell you mum about Stephen Conroy’s internet censorship plans.
Why you should check your Facebook™ privacy settings. Social media as Venn diagram.
Mapping child mortality. An outbreak of polio in Tajikistan is a warning about inadequate health systems. An attempt to counter-act counterfeit anti-malaria drugs in Africa.
Paper on the different “demographic regimes” of Turks and Kurds in Turkey.
Post with some very depressing links on the continuing spread of HIV/AIDS.
13 things that saved Apollo 13. Being sceptical, based on past history, of President Obama’s plans for NASA and space.
Evidence that birth control pills affect women’s taste in men.
An Icelandic volcano was very unhelpful for European air travel.
In Spain solar power generators were supplying power at night. There was a reason for this …
In the US, road travel is safer per 100million vehicle miles travelled than air travel and both are MUCH safer than motorbike travel. (Doing passenger miles, air travel becomes much safer.)
The tragedy of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa in a single graph. US study finds that tolerance of homosexuals is associated with lower rates of HIV transmission.
About the connection between the flexibility of your body and the flexibility of your arteries. About stress and health. About “ultra wellness”. About personality and longevity. Looking at “blue zones”: pockets of longevity. About the nutritional virtues of butyric acid. Study finds that money provides relief from pain.
Geneticists find that Jews are a distinct population and not descended from Khazars:
The Jewish people, according to archaeologists, originated in Babylon and Persia between the 4th and 6th centuries BC. The modern-day Jews most closely related to that original population are those in Iran, Iraq and Syria, whose closest non-Jewish relatives are the Druze, Bedouins and Palestinians, the study found.
Trying to woo the Assad regime in Syria with new technology. The regime has no leverage except from being a strategic nuisance, so it will not stop doing what gives it its sole leverage.
BP continues to struggle with its oil spill problem. Pointing out that safer places to drill have been barred on environmental grounds. And that the West exports its oil spills to less regulated places. A case in point. About not exaggerating the effect of oils spills. Listing the biggest oil spills in history.
That octopus has grabbed my camera!
Getting a car to explode after going over a cliff is harder than one might expect.
A mathematical model for marital break-ups.
A brilliant speech in favour of science.
Being sanguine about the effects of new technology.
Beware of the terrifying homeopathic bomb! British Medical Association declares homeopathy to be witchcraft.
Mapping “touristness” by photo uploads.
Study finds that children get increasingly meritocratic in their moral judgements as they get older. About religion, science and a mathematician who works on the mathematics of altruism.
Longitudinal study of children raised by lesbian couples finds significant positives and no sign of adverse psychological adjustment.
Nice little discussion of cause, effect, correlation based on a report that brushing your teeth lowers risk of cardiovascular disease.
Study finds the health dangers of obesity have been seriously overstated. Evidence that lifestyle is more important than health care policy: Mormons in the US live longer than Swedes. Billionaires live 3.5 years longer than the American average, but not as long as Mormons.
The problem with generating energy from waves is waves with too much energy.
Inuit say polar bears are doing fine.
Claiming the internet favours liberals more than conservatives. It also favours dissent more than institutional orthodoxy: effects that do not necessarily move in the same direction.
Time to tell you mum about Stephen Conroy’s internet censorship plans.
Why you should check your Facebook™ privacy settings. Social media as Venn diagram.
Mapping child mortality. An outbreak of polio in Tajikistan is a warning about inadequate health systems. An attempt to counter-act counterfeit anti-malaria drugs in Africa.
Paper on the different “demographic regimes” of Turks and Kurds in Turkey.
Post with some very depressing links on the continuing spread of HIV/AIDS.
13 things that saved Apollo 13. Being sceptical, based on past history, of President Obama’s plans for NASA and space.
Evidence that birth control pills affect women’s taste in men.
An Icelandic volcano was very unhelpful for European air travel.
In Spain solar power generators were supplying power at night. There was a reason for this …
In the US, road travel is safer per 100million vehicle miles travelled than air travel and both are MUCH safer than motorbike travel. (Doing passenger miles, air travel becomes much safer.)
The tragedy of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa in a single graph. US study finds that tolerance of homosexuals is associated with lower rates of HIV transmission.
About the connection between the flexibility of your body and the flexibility of your arteries. About stress and health. About “ultra wellness”. About personality and longevity. Looking at “blue zones”: pockets of longevity. About the nutritional virtues of butyric acid. Study finds that money provides relief from pain.
Geneticists find that Jews are a distinct population and not descended from Khazars:
The Jewish people, according to archaeologists, originated in Babylon and Persia between the 4th and 6th centuries BC. The modern-day Jews most closely related to that original population are those in Iran, Iraq and Syria, whose closest non-Jewish relatives are the Druze, Bedouins and Palestinians, the study found.
Trying to woo the Assad regime in Syria with new technology. The regime has no leverage except from being a strategic nuisance, so it will not stop doing what gives it its sole leverage.
BP continues to struggle with its oil spill problem. Pointing out that safer places to drill have been barred on environmental grounds. And that the West exports its oil spills to less regulated places. A case in point. About not exaggerating the effect of oils spills. Listing the biggest oil spills in history.