mottram + science   34

The Medical Messiahs
"The 1966 edition of this book described the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the mid-1960s."
medicine  science  quacks  history 
march 2008 by mottram
What's wrong with homeopathy, by Ben Goldacre | Science | The Guardian
Great piece in answer to Jeanette Winterson's misinformed rambling earlier in the week.
science  homeopathy 
november 2007 by mottram
2007-01-15 -- science vs faith.png (PNG Image, 894x700 pixels) - Scaled (97%)
Two flow charts that succinctly explain the difference between science and faith.
science  faith 
february 2007 by mottram
Footballers using babies as 'repair kits' - Yahoo! News UK
"Premiership footballers are storing stem cells from their newborn babies to use in case of their own career-threatening sports injuries." Weird.
weird  science  football  babies  stemcells 
august 2006 by mottram
The Sounds of Science | Ask MetaFilter
I need to trawls all these 'help me find songs like x' AskMe threads, download all the songs and make a keyword-based, horribly repetitive cut-up. Or something.
music  science  mp3 
may 2006 by mottram
Ponderfodder | Because Great Minds Discuss Ideas
Sort of like MetaFilter for science, new theories, medical breakthroughs, etc.
science  theory  weblog 
april 2006 by mottram
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Britons unconvinced on evolution
"More than half the British population does not fully accept the theory of evolution, according to a survey." What. The. Fuck?
education  evolution  id  science  uk  unbelievable 
january 2006 by mottram
CNN.com - Kansas‽school board redefines science - Nov 8, 2005
A generation of Kansas schoolchildren to be taught fairy-tales in the science classroom. Definition of science changed to accomodate this. Good luck going to university, children of Kansas.
scum  fundamentalists  idiots  science  ID  creationism  evolution 
november 2005 by mottram
Time Machine - Discover Magazine - science news articles online technology magazine articles Time Machine
"It is a clock, but it is designed to do something no clock has ever been conceived to do—run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years."
time  science  clock  technology 
october 2005 by mottram
Nanogirl + Dermal Display
"a population of about 3 billion display pixel robots would be permanently implanted a fraction of a mm under the surface of the skin, covering a rectangle 6 cm x 5 cm on the back of the hand. Photons emitted by these pixel bots would produce an image on
display  technology  science  future 
october 2005 by mottram
Stirling engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Stirling engine, also known as the hot air engine, is a heat engine of the external combustion piston engine type. Its invention is credited to the Scottish clergyman Rev. Robert Stirling in 1816 who made significant improvements to earlier designs a
energy  science  engine  stirling 
september 2005 by mottram
New Scientist News - One law rules dedicated followers of fashion
"FADS, fashions and dramatic shifts in public opinion all appear to follow a physical law: one of the laws of magnetism."
science  fashion  trends  odd 
may 2005 by mottram
Lemba
Lemba origin myth confirmed by DNA analysis
jews  lemba  genetics  dna  science  genealogy  history  migration 
february 2005 by mottram
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Teleportation goes long distance
Physicists have carried out successful teleportation with particles of light over a distance of 600m across the River Danube in Austria
science  technology 
september 2004 by mottram

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