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Octopus exacts revenge on human captors, floods aquarium

An octopus is held responsible for the flooding of a Californian aquarium after a calculated act of sabotage to the filter system

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SciencePunk Art Challenge: redesign Ben's book!

Category: Art

Ben Goldacre isn't overall keen on the new design of his book. Perhaps SciencePunk readers can create a better one?

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Pancake formula says cold, lumpy pancakes are best

Category: bad science

Today is Shrove Tuesday in the UK, relating to some archaic mumbo-jumbo religion nonsense about Jesus but generally celebrated as a good excuse to gorge oneself on pancakes. For some reason, newspapers like to ignore these religious overtones and focus...

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Q: Will a billion people watch tonight's Oscars Ceremony?

Category: bad science

Although the BBC are claiming that a billion people will tune in to the 81st Academy Awards, the figure turns out to have little grounding in reality.

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Friday Flash Fun: The Space Game

tsg.pngThe Space Game might not have the most inspired title, but beneath the nondescript exterior lies a jewel of a real-time strategy game with some interesting quasi-bioinformatics.

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SciencePunk Challenge: who is described below?

Category: bad science

I came across this quote today - can you guess which group of pseudoscientists is being discussed? These people use the "reverse scientific method"... they determine what happened, throw out all the data that doesn't fit their conclusion, and then...

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Call on museums to cancel 'Israel Day of Science'

Category: Politics

A letter appeared in yesterday's Guardian calling on Science Museums to cancel planned 'Israel Day of Science' events in London and Manchester. The letter carried 383 signatories including well-known figures such as Ian Gibson MP and Professor Jim Al-Khalili. Full...

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CT scan of Barbie, an iPod, and more...

Category: Art

Ever wondered what an iPod looks like through the eyes of a computed axial tomography scanner? Wonder no more! Radiologyart.com reveals what lies inside common household objects, from electronics to food to toys. They say: Since the summer of 2007,...

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'Ceci n'est pas la Costa Brava': fake photo story gets weird

Category: bad science

Last week the Guardian ran an amusing story of photo-fakery by enthusiastic Spanish tourism board employees: Spain's Costa Brava uses Bahamas photograph in ad campaign Tourist board denies being deceitful by using picture from tropical islands to advertise beaches in...

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Drugs are dangerous - that's why they need to be legalised

Yesterday the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) announced that after a careful review of the scientific evidence, ecstasy should be downgraded from Class A to Class B. The UK Government were quick to react by sticking their...

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