Edward Copeland's Tangents: How many kids look overweight in this photo?
13 days ago by ignatz
contrarian analysis of "childhood obesity epidemic"
science
statistics
obesity
health
usa
epidemiology
publichealth
13 days ago by ignatz
Gravity Research Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
7 weeks ago by ignatz
foundation for overcoming... gravity
crank
ha
science
psychoceramics
7 weeks ago by ignatz
Project HARP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
12 weeks ago by ignatz
a joint project of the United States Department of Defense and Canada's Department of National Defence created with the goal of studying ballistics of re-entry vehicles at low cost; whereas most such projects used expensive (and failure-prone) rockets, HARP used a non-rocket spacelaunch method based on a very large gun to fire the models to high altitudes and speeds.
weapons
science
usa
wtf
guns
12 weeks ago by ignatz
Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker
february 2012 by ignatz
"The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all follow in group interactions."
newyorker
psychology
science
history
via:nrrd
february 2012 by ignatz
How Not To Do It: Ruining Stuff. In the Pipeline:
august 2011 by ignatz
fine stories in the comment re: what's the most expensive thing you've seen wrecked?
science
failure
disasters
august 2011 by ignatz
Schmidt Sting Pain Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
april 2011 by ignatz
Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath.
via:popular
science
pain
reference
april 2011 by ignatz
That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification
april 2011 by ignatz
The SCIENCE behind "That's what she said!"
language
science
ha
april 2011 by ignatz
Montclair SocioBlog: Notice Anything Different?
april 2011 by ignatz
Waiter turns into gorilla halfway through meal nobody notices etc
sociology
psychology
failure
science
perception
april 2011 by ignatz
Hot Rocks: Geology Photo Contest Winners
april 2011 by ignatz
11 pretty awesome photos from geologists
photography
geology
science
april 2011 by ignatz
What we know, and don't know, about Japan's reactors
march 2011 by ignatz
Panel of MIT nuclear engineers aims for clarity about the state of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
japan
nuclear
disaster
MIT
science
physics
march 2011 by ignatz
Bees in freefall as study shows sharp US declin
january 2011 by ignatz
one study, but creepy
bees
colonycollapsedisorder
environment
science
january 2011 by ignatz
Welcome to My Personal Dexterously Ensivaged Zingy Unhackneyed Ultramundane Euphorigenic Bewitchingly Pulchritudinal Voluptuous Junoesque Professional Academic Nirvana and Elysium Garden, Crackajack Gimcrack Prof. LanLan Sgwendoline-Yvonne Winifret Lin's
psychoceramics physics science cranks
december 2010 by ignatz
psychoceramics physics science cranks
december 2010 by ignatz
Inscentinel
october 2009 by ignatz
Inscentinel Ltd. is developing unique sensing instruments which utilise trained honeybees (Apis mellifera) to recognise and detect trace vapours.
bees
science
security
safety
madscience
biology
entomology
october 2009 by ignatz
UC Irvine Feature: Chemical bonding
august 2009 by ignatz
UC Irvine scientists hope to become the first ever to make real-time videos of single molecules in action - a feat that has proved elusive because size and time scales are so small.
science
uci
research
chemistry
august 2009 by ignatz
Project Implicit® - Select a Test
august 2009 by ignatz
tests for implicit bias
tests
psychology
science
race
research
sociology
from delicious
august 2009 by ignatz
Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere, Fans Conspiracy Flames
august 2009 by ignatz
The story behind HAARP. As usual it's more about incompetence and hilarity than anything else.
via:thepouncer
haarp
conspiracy
failure
ha
research
usaf
usa
military
science
porkbarrel
alaska
august 2009 by ignatz
Botanical barcoding will allow scanner to identify plants - Telegraph
july 2009 by ignatz
This means that in the future scientists will be able to take a supermarket-style hand-held scanner into the field which will identify different plants by their barcodes.
science
botany
dna
fingerprinting
july 2009 by ignatz
A Response to Lomborg's Rebuttal: Scientific American
july 2009 by ignatz
Scientific American smacks Lomborg down hard.
via:positivejeff
globalwarming
lomborg
science
debate
july 2009 by ignatz
The blue and the green | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
june 2009 by ignatz
bizarre optical illusion; blue and green become something else.
science
opticalillusion
biology
vision
neuroscience
neurology
june 2009 by ignatz
How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations
may 2009 by ignatz
crackpots, mostly in physics, with some observations on their characteristics
via:thurston
psychoceramics
science
physics
crackpots
may 2009 by ignatz
How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel. « Southern Fried Science
may 2009 by ignatz
This is not, as a rule, a terribly good beer (though, with a good brewmaster on board, it can be). This is a beer to pass the time.
science
beer
diy
brewing
may 2009 by ignatz
Cure For Honey Bee Colony Collapse?
april 2009 by ignatz
For the first time, scientists have isolated the parasite Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) from professional apiaries suffering from honey bee colony depopulation syndrome. They then went on to treat the infection with complete success.
bees
science
biology
environment
news
peakbee
disease
april 2009 by ignatz
Fluorescent puppy is world's first transgenic dog - life - 23 April 2009 - New Scientist
april 2009 by ignatz
A cloned beagle named Ruppy – short for Ruby Puppy – is the world's first transgenic dog. She and four other beagles all produce a fluorescent protein that glows red under ultraviolet light.
science
genetics
news
biology
madscience
april 2009 by ignatz
Bacon: the Other White Heat
april 2009 by ignatz
The bacon mania is an old joke, and prosciutto is not really bacon. But you can weld with prosciutto.
bacon
science
fire
madscience
via:positivejeff
april 2009 by ignatz
Super-laser fully operational at last - Innovation- msnbc.com
april 2009 by ignatz
"After more than a decade of work and $3.5 billion, engineers have completed the world's most powerful laser, capable of simulating the energy force of a hydrogen bomb and the sun itself."
lasers
science
government
usa
weapons
nuclearweapons
doom
madscience
wmd
april 2009 by ignatz
Singularics » Singularics is out of the doghouse
march 2009 by ignatz
A very strange defense of "Singularics" against Schneier's doghouse, by its CEO.
singularity
wtf
science
psychoceramics
physics
failure
march 2009 by ignatz
What Happens To Fake Studies?
march 2009 by ignatz
What, you think they go back and fix them? The problem of bad science staying in the record.
fraud
medicine
science
research
march 2009 by ignatz
Fastest accelerated shot in nature | The Firearm Blog
march 2009 by ignatz
“The fastest spores travelled more than 1 million times their own ‘body’ length in one second,” says Money. “A 1.8-metre human travelling at 1 million times his or her body length in one second would be travelling at a velocity of 1.8 million meters per second, which is more than 5000 times the speed of sound.”
yow
science
biology
fungi
projectiles
march 2009 by ignatz
Bad Science » “Facebook causes cancer”
february 2009 by ignatz
Professor Greenfield’s stated aim, however, is to improve the public’s understanding of science: and yet repeatedly she appears in the media making wild headline-grabbing claims, without evidence, all the while telling us repeatedly that she is a scientist.
failure
science
socialnetworking
internet
health
cranks
pseudoscience
february 2009 by ignatz
MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism - Times Online
february 2009 by ignatz
THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
failure
fraud
medicine
science
pseudoscience
autism
february 2009 by ignatz
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Locust swarms 'high' on serotonin
january 2009 by ignatz
'Locusts apparently make their own Ecstasy for their raves.
news
science
biology
animals
psychology
insects
nature
psychiatry
serotonin
locusts
january 2009 by ignatz
Honeybees See the Difference Between Numbers—Literally | 80beats | Discover Magazine
january 2009 by ignatz
Honeybees have the ability to distinguish and remember visual quantities up to four, according to a new study
science
biology
via:thepouncer
nature
bees
january 2009 by ignatz
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Sex smell lures 'vampire' to doom
january 2009 by ignatz
US researchers deployed a laboratory version of a male sea lamprey pheromone to trick ovulating females into swimming upstream into traps.
sex
news
science
environment
fish
lampreys
january 2009 by ignatz
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption - The New York Review of Books
january 2009 by ignatz
Collusion between pharm companies and influential doctors is way worse than I thought even.
commerce
villainy
medicine
science
psychiatry
pharmaceuticals
pharm
january 2009 by ignatz
The Colossal Squid Exhibition - Build A Squid - Interactive
january 2009 by ignatz
build your own SQUID
generators
science
yes
squid
january 2009 by ignatz
What's Old Is New: 12 Living Fossils | Wired Science from Wired.com
december 2008 by ignatz
including 3 eyed beetle, big flat frog
yikes
science
animals
via:ethan_t_hein
evolution
december 2008 by ignatz
Body swap study shows 'self' is a trick of the mind | Science | The Guardian
december 2008 by ignatz
scienticians induce out of body experience
science
psychology
neuroscience
december 2008 by ignatz
New drugs against MRSA, other superbugs still lacking | Science Blog
december 2008 by ignatz
antibiotic development is lagging behind new bug development
mrsa
medicine
science
antibiotics
disease
epidemiology
december 2008 by ignatz
Quake-Catcher Network
december 2008 by ignatz
distributed network of computers with motion sensors, detecting quakes
earthquakes
distributed
geology
science
measurement
december 2008 by ignatz
Depression, Bipolar, Suicide, Drug Companies and Medications -- The Last Psychiatrist
november 2008 by ignatz
The Last Psychiatrist is a weblog about our failure to be critical. Why do we practice the way we practice? How do we know what we know?
science
psychology
psychiatry
neuroscience
blog
november 2008 by ignatz
Stem cells and organ transplants | Breathe in deeply, please | The Economist
november 2008 by ignatz
A successful bronchial transplant avoids immune issues with stem cell engineering
science
medicine
stemcells
prosthesis
transplant
news
surgery
immune
bioengineering
november 2008 by ignatz
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Expedition set for 'ghost peaks'
october 2008 by ignatz
It is perhaps the last great Antarctic expedition - to find an explanation for why there is a great mountain range buried under the White Continent. And then go mad, babbling about THOSE THINGS...
leng
lovecraft
science
madscience
doom
antarctica
october 2008 by ignatz
The Sun - The Big Picture - Boston.com
october 2008 by ignatz
big beautiful solar pictures
astronomy
sun
space
science
pictures
photograph
solar
october 2008 by ignatz
Rat Behavior and Biology
september 2008 by ignatz
lots of scientific info about rats
rats
science
biology
zoology
animals
rodents
reference
september 2008 by ignatz
Gordonzola.net
september 2008 by ignatz
Notes, facts, blogs, and lots of other information from a skilled cheesemonger.
friends
cheese
gordonzola
reference
food
science
nutrition
cooking
september 2008 by ignatz
HMP Research Station | Haughton-Mars Project
august 2008 by ignatz
an international interdisciplinary field research project centered on the scientific study of the Haughton impact structure and surrounding terrain, Devon Island, High Arctic, viewed as a terrestrial analog for Mars
exploration
arctic
hmp
science
space
august 2008 by ignatz
CompilerBitch's Journal
august 2008 by ignatz
scientist on the Haughton-Mars project, simulating Mars and the Moon in the Arctic. Great photos.
arctic
space
exploration
science
photography
photos
hmp
august 2008 by ignatz
YouTube - It's Called epMotion
july 2008 by ignatz
area boy band promotes automated pipetting
video
youtube
science
advertising
lab
chemistry
july 2008 by ignatz
Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says
july 2008 by ignatz
"What is so surprising is that rapid, almost sudden, changes take place in the Earth's magnetic field," said study co-author Nils Olsen. We're fucked.
science
environment
news
doom
july 2008 by ignatz
Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent
june 2008 by ignatz
Oh hey great the North Pole doesn't have ice.
climate
environment
northpole
science
ice
globalwarming
june 2008 by ignatz
28 Days Later...more stem cells! | MetaFilter
april 2008 by ignatz
Scientists have discovered that "endometrial regenerative cells" (ERC's) -- in other words, human menstrual blood -- contains stem cells.
metafilter
science
stemcells
menstruation
health
yow
april 2008 by ignatz
Greta Christina's Blog: The Galileo Fallacy, and the Gadfly Corollary
march 2008 by ignatz
Nothing new, but a nice summation of why 90% of everyone needs to shut up.
psychology
intelligence
nerds
science
failure
stupid
march 2008 by ignatz
Morbid Anatomy
march 2008 by ignatz
history, anatomy, art, science, DEAD THINGS
anatomy
history
science
medicine
bizarre
yow
art
march 2008 by ignatz
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