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Internal Time: The Science of Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired
Why it's not a moral failing to get up late, despite the ugly fascism of early-rising cultural supremacists.
sleep  society  science 
20 days ago by threedaymonk
If it ain’t open, it ain’t science
‘I, and most of my astronomy colleagues, frankly don’t really care if we cancel astronomy journals. All our relevant papers can be found on the arXiv and/or via the NASA/ADS system. My physics colleagues, on the other hand, are still in hock to the old-fashioned and ruinously expensive academic journal racket.’
science  academia  knowledge 
may 2011 by threedaymonk
Cryonics and Technological Inevitability
history  philosophy  science  transhumanism  futurism 
february 2011 by threedaymonk
Blue Monday is bullshit churnalism. Beware any journalist who promotes it.
‘Every year Blue Monday will reappear, perhaps the best thing you can do is treat it like a radiolabel to help you identify cut and paste journalists whose output you cannot trust more broadly.’
journalism  churnalism  science  depression 
january 2011 by threedaymonk
Boykoff on “Exaggerating Denialism: Media Representations of Outlier Views on Climate Change”
science  media  climate  environment 
february 2010 by threedaymonk
Homeopathy vs Science - a Metaphor
Hilarious, and a great use of the classic Shatter Resistant ruler.
homeopathy  quackery  humour  science 
february 2010 by threedaymonk
Why is the news media comfortable with lying about science?
science  news  journalism 
january 2010 by threedaymonk
50 reasons why global warming isn’t natural
New Scientist refutes the Daily Express.
science  climate  environment 
december 2009 by threedaymonk
Why Are Europeans White?
Cereal and the Gulf Stream, apparently.
science  agriculture  biology  humanity  skin  pigmentation  melanin 
december 2009 by threedaymonk
On Influenza A (H1N1)
Bunnie Huang reverse engineers H1N1. ‘[T]he virus does the equivalent of self-modifying code to create two proteins out of a single gene in some places’
dna  science  biology  h1n1 
september 2009 by threedaymonk
Want to get ahead? Sleep in
Not only are early risers intolerably smug fascist bastards, they actually have less mental stamina.
sleep  neuroscience  science  brain 
july 2009 by threedaymonk
welcome to opposite world…
‘People who are so skeptical of almost everything that comes out of a scientist’s mouth and demanding proof that 2 + 2 really does equal 4, seem to blindly trust those who insist it must equal seven and blame the establishment for being too rigid not to give the 2 + 2 = 7 proponents the time of day.’
science  pseudoscience  quackery 
june 2009 by threedaymonk
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
weird  science  physics  biology  humour 
may 2009 by threedaymonk
H5N1
Blog about avian and swine flu that I’ve been following on and off for a few years. A good antidote to uninformed panic.
science  biology  flu  h5n1  h1n1  pandemic  epidemiology 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
Lost in Space
‘There are those who believe that somewhere in the vast blackness of space, about nine billion miles from the Sun, the first human is about to cross the boundary of our Solar System into interstellar space.’ How a pair of brothers from Turin listened in on the USSR space programme, and what they claim to have heard. Sent a chill up my spine.
science  space  history  radio  ussr  nasa 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
A quick eye-exercise can improve your performance on memory tests (but only if you're right-handed)
psychology  education  science  memory 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
The Daily Mail: Campaigning both For AND Against the HPV Vaccine in Different Countries Simultaneously
Anti-scientific crypto-fascist demagogic hypocrites. Business as usual at the Fail.
science  health  medicine  hpv  hypocrisy 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
steal this chapter
Previously unpublished (due to legal proceedings) chapter about vitamin pill salesman Matthias Rath from Ben Goldacre’s book.
science  quackery  charlatan  medicine  aids 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
Counterknowledge.com
‘Exposing conspiracy theories, cults, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history.’
conspiracy  science  religion  history  blogs 
april 2009 by threedaymonk
RAT TRADERS
‘This following text and pictures illustrate an experiment I undertook that involved training laboratory standard rats in trading in the Foreign Exchange and Commodity Futures markets with the effect that I managed to outperform some of the world' s leading Human Fund managers.’ If this isn’t genius, I don’t know what is.
weird  science  economics  finance  humour 
march 2009 by threedaymonk
'The opposite of science'
‘BSc courses in homeopathy are closing. Is it a victory for campaigners, or just the end of the Blair/Bush era?’
science  quackery  pseudoscience  education  health 
march 2009 by threedaymonk
Essential Life Lesson #1: Over is Right, Under is Wrong
Science explains the One True Way to install toilet roll.
humour  science  toilet 
february 2009 by threedaymonk
Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God
‘But I do remember looking at my headmaster delivering a sermon, a classicist, extremely clever ... and thinking, he can't really believe all that, can he? How incredible!’
atheism  religion  science  education  evolution 
january 2009 by threedaymonk
Reinventing the dismal science
‘The credit crunch has exposed many economists’ most cherished ideas for the nonsense they manifestly are.’
economics  science  networks 
january 2009 by threedaymonk
Look Around You - Calcium (pilot episode) Part 1
Entertainingly misinformational parody of 80s scientific educational TV programmes.
humour  science  tv  education  uk 
december 2008 by threedaymonk
Japan scientists eye made-to-order bones
Apart from the obvious benefits for reconstructive surgery, I can’t wait to see what kind of ideas the transhuman/bodmod vanguards come up with to use this technology.
science  bone  biology 
november 2008 by threedaymonk
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
environment  science 
october 2008 by threedaymonk
Guerilla Open Access
Knowledge is still not free. A manifesto to release it regardless of the fact that the law has not yet caught up.
copyright  science  publishing  opendata  openaccess 
september 2008 by threedaymonk
Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain
brain  science  neuroscience  psychology 
july 2008 by threedaymonk
Bad Homeopathy
Exposing quackery.
science  quackery  medicine 
may 2008 by threedaymonk
Bad science: Celebs decry evidence on vitamin pills
Wonderfully sarcastic.
science 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
geeKyoto2008 - 17 May 2008
Looks interesting.
environment  politics  technology  science  conference  london  uk 
april 2008 by threedaymonk
Dwarf cretins or new human species: two academic tribes go to war
Dispute over the Flores hominid bones. I didn’t realise that ‘cretin’ was a scientific term.
science  biology  palaeontology 
march 2008 by threedaymonk
Telekinesis and Quantum Field Theory
Fighting bogosity with science.
science  physics  rationalism 
february 2008 by threedaymonk
Champneys Detox Pad - A Dissection
It doesn't detoxify your body, it just turns brown when it gets damp.
science  quackery 
february 2008 by threedaymonk
Seeing Around Corners
Using computer simulations to model human societies.
society  humanity  culture  science  simulation 
february 2008 by threedaymonk
Regulation plans for homeopathy
How exactly does one regulate ineffectual quackery?
health  regulation  science  quackery 
january 2008 by threedaymonk
Humour ‘comes from testosterone’
Apropos a pub conversation the other night in which I was defending female comedians.
biology  humour  science 
december 2007 by threedaymonk
Heard the one about reading in dim light being bad for your eyes? It's just a myth
Dispelling some junk science myths.
science 
december 2007 by threedaymonk
BAS Statement about Channel 4 programme on Global Warming
What actual scientists say.
globalwarming  science  journalism 
december 2007 by threedaymonk
Strange but True: Snake Oil Salesmen Were on to Something
Snake oil really might have been good for arthritis!
science  history  medicine 
november 2007 by threedaymonk
Huge payout in US stuttering case
An amazingly unethical experiment: researchers tormented orphans to try to give them speech impediments.
news  language  psychology  science  ethics 
august 2007 by threedaymonk
The age of endarkenment
‘Why is no one questioning the rise of new-age nonsense in the name of science, asks David Colquhoun.’
science  culture  religion 
august 2007 by threedaymonk
Language Log: They just don't care
More brickbats for BBC News reporting; this time, it's the science.
bbc  bbcnews  science 
july 2007 by threedaymonk
Beautiful new images from Rosetta’s approach to Mars: OSIRIS UPDATE
Mars has clouds!
astronomy  mars  space  science 
february 2007 by threedaymonk
Water computer
4-bit adder made from water-operated logic gates.
logic  electronics  computing  water  science 
february 2007 by threedaymonk
Amazing Liquid
Weird effects in a cornstarch solution under vibration.
weird  science  video 
december 2006 by threedaymonk
Towards a new test of general relativity?
A superconducting gyroscope appears to generate a strong gravitomagnetic field. ‘This experiment is the gravitational analogue of Faraday's electromagnetic induction experiment in 1831.’
science  physics  gravity 
december 2006 by threedaymonk
Scientists Levitate Small Animals
Insects, fish, and spiders.
levitation  science  video 
november 2006 by threedaymonk
Data visualization tools for Linux
Most of these also work on Mac OS X and Windows.
graphics  linux  osx  software  maths  visualisation  science 
november 2006 by threedaymonk
Vampires a Mathematical Impossibility, Scientist Says
That’s a relief: I can take down my garlic window decorations now.
humour  vampires  maths  science 
october 2006 by threedaymonk
Radio Lab
Interesting programme from New York Public Radio ‘for listeners who demand skepticism but appreciate wonder, who are curious about the world but who also want to be moved and surprised.’
radio  science 
october 2006 by threedaymonk
Two Butterfly Species Evolved Into Third, Study Finds
Hybrid speciation works in animals, too.
science  biology  evolution 
june 2006 by threedaymonk
Scientific American: 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
The article is several years old, but the message still needs to be repeated.
science  religion  evolution 
march 2006 by threedaymonk
Electromagnetism
A simple homemade Van de Graaff generator.
electricity  diy  science 
december 2005 by threedaymonk

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