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Stupidity caught on celluloid: The Beautiful Truth

Category: bad science

Is it possible to pack a DVD with idiocy so dense that light bends around it? I don't know, but I found someone who gave it a damn good try. The Beautiful Truth is a 2008 documentary about Gerson Therapy,...

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My sweet-ass new business cards have arrived

Category: General

Today my sweet new business cards arrived from Moo.com - a whole 6 days ahead of schedule!...

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Damien Hirst paints cover for Origin of Species

Category: General

Publisher Penguin are marking the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species with this rather splendid edition boasting cover art painted by Damien Hirst....

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Molecular projector creates world's smallest lettering

Category: General

Taking the art of small print to a whole new level, physicists at Stanford University have created the world's smallest lettering, just 1.5 nanometres tall: Colin Barras reports in New Scientist: The researchers wrote a computer program that works out...

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I'm giving a talk at Cambridge next week

Category: General

Student society BlueSci / Cambridge University Science Productions have invited me to give a talk next Tuesday Wednesday (28th). It'll be about making zines and blogging and making sweet websites and being a filthy Nathan Barley-esque media whore and the...

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Mormon scientists reveal link between gaming, being a loser

Category: Religion

Shares in Sony, Nintendo, and major games companies dropped sharply today after scientists linked playing video games with poor relationships with friends and family and increased drug use. Nintendo, long the face of family-friendly gaming, were said to be aghast and promised to immediately discontinue their wildly popular Wii system. OK, so only one part of the above is true. A press release from Brigham Young University revealed that undergraduate Alex Jensen and his tutor had questioned 813 college students on their gaming habits and other behaviours, concluding that...

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Hello, ScienceBlogs

As some sharp-eyed reader may have already spotted, the SciencePunk blog has relocated to the Seed Media Group's ScienceBlogs. Let's take a moment to absorb these new surroundings....

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