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October 21, 2009
Category: Zombies
This fantastic slice of art just arrived from Paradigma, who are publishing the Dutch translation of my forthcoming book Zombology. Awesome! I better get writing some words to go with it....
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October 16, 2009
Category: Art
The last chance to win a huge illustrated encyclopaedia of science! And so we come to the end of our delightful foray into the thrill and passion for science of you, dear readers. It's been absolutely wonderful, and I've really...
Posted by SciencePunk at 12:24 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 15, 2009
Category: Art
Another day, another beautifully-illustrated definitive guide to SCIENCE to be won! With the contest in its fourth day, I have only two more of these huge books to win. They're worth a princely £30 each, and were edited by the...
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Category: Singh vs BCA
The BCA have posted this press release in response to news that Simon Singh has been granted leave to appeal, stating: The BCA supports and would never seek to stifle legitimate open scientific debate. However, this action is actually a...
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Category: Singh vs BCA
Simon Singh is a UK science writer currently being sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association following a critical article on chiropractic treatments published in the Guardian. Yesterday Simon went to court to fight for his right to appeal...
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October 14, 2009
Category: Art
Another chance to win a gorgeous illustrated encyclopaedia of science! Thank you everyone who donated their thoughts to yesterday's provoking question, the consensus seems to be that we are, right now, living in a bloody great time for science. The...
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October 13, 2009
Category: Art
Another day, another chance to win SCIENCE: THE DEFINITIVE VISUAL HISTORY! Well, it's going to be hard to beat the massive response to the first round of this competition - thank you to everyone who commented. It was heartening to...
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Category: Legal Chill
Most of the UK press are avoiding this story for obvious reasons, so kudos to Alex Massie and the Spectator for breaking rank: This time, perhaps even the lawyers have gone too far. It's hard to recall, even in the...
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October 12, 2009
Category: Art
This week, five SciencePunk readers will win a copy of SCIENCE: THE DEFINITIVE VISUAL GUIDE, edited by Adam Hart-Davis! I received a copy in the post today, and let me tell you, this book is HUGE. Huge in scope, in...
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Category: bad science
This strange episode of dodgy science and publishing is worth reprinting in its entirety from Ars Technica: Scientific publishing weirdness: This paper didn't strike me as weird so much as completely bonkers, given its opening sentence: "I reject the Darwinian...
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