THERE is a strong sense of déjà vu about what is emerging over leaked emails from the Heartland Institute. The US libertarian think tank, which argues that global warming is not primarily caused by humans, intends to develop teaching material that would cast doubt on the scientific consensus on climate change. Its approach is sadly reminiscent of ( Read more... )

We often use metaphors involving the body to describe the process of intuition - we talk about going with our "gut instincts" or "following our hearts". Perhaps we should take these phrases more literally. Barnaby Dunn at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues have found that people who take ( Read more... )

by Hugh Gusterson

AbstractSince the late 1990s, nuclear weapons scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory have faced an unanticipated threat to their work, from politicians and administrators whose reforms and management policies-enacted in the name of national security and efficiency-have substantially undermined ( Read more... )

I was marveling at the many official NASA twitter feeds that were available when V asked me why I was following JPL. Word on the street was that they were up to "different" sorts of things, the post-it note in my mind read. Something about being started, at least in part, by some occult dude. One of those things that I'd heard and that had piqued ( Read more... )

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"Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models, and here at the White House we're going to lead by example. We're going to show young people how cool science can be."http://www.

"Most of the serious human bite infections occur in association with violent confrontations related to alcohol ingestion, or during forcible restraint, as in law enforcement and in mental institutions. The risk is greatly increased when the biting individual has poor mouth care and extensive dental disease. Bites by little children are usually ( Read more... )

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"Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Trifid Nebula."

Pretty

Been fighting the never-ending-fever. Let's not even talk about the asthma. If eating a tapeworm would solve my problems, let me tell you, I would eat it. Right now.