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August 31, 2009
Category: General
The week's tweets and more: 40 million year old plumage shimmers! Iridescence found in fossil feather: http://bit.ly/3FkVf "Most of you are average" - nice roundup of science-themed t shirts: http://is.gd/2Auwn Homeopaths go utterly apeshit over campaign to have WHO denounce...
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August 27, 2009
Category: bad science
It's sublime to see how "emotionalising" by Greenpeace turns into fodder for their antithesis, Not Evil Just Wrong. When you abandon science for scare tactics, nobody wins....
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Category: General
Prepare yourselves for a seismic science showdown! In the reeeeeed corner: the man from Le Mans, Britain's very own Minister for Science, the Lord Paul Rudd Drayson! In the bluuuuue corner: the Rational Radical, Benjamin "Bad Science" Goldacre! After a...
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August 26, 2009
Category: General
This weekend I attended the delightful ScienceOnline conference in London, a collection of bloggers, press officers, scientists, writers, film makers and more. It was nice to see familiar faces such as Andy Lewis and David Colquhoun and even better to...
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August 18, 2009
Category: Zombies
The latest tome of Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress contains an unusual paper investigating the dynamics of a zombie outbreak: "When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection", by four Canadian mathematicians, concludes that the best defence...
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August 17, 2009
Category: 9
Win stuff!
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August 14, 2009
Category: Games
Flash games: The Great Flu. What better way to relax on a Friday than saving the world?
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August 13, 2009
Category: 9
Read the exclusive essay by Ray Kurzweil: "Our emotional intelligence is not just a sideshow to human intelligence, it's the cutting edge"
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August 12, 2009
Category: bad science
Potions & Possibilities, makers of high-end toiletries and aromatherapy products, are claiming their products to be effective in the control of deadly swine flu. A document circulated on the internet lists "Top 10 tips for natural infection control". Originally circulated...
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August 11, 2009
Category: Singh vs BCA
Síle Lane at Sense About Science reports: Simon Singh announced today that he will continue the fight in his libel case with the British Chiropractic Association after his application to appeal the preliminary ruling was rejected last week. He has...
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