The World's Fair

Organic Food Is Better For Us -- So Why Don't We All Eat It?

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

Peter Melchett writes in The Guardian (on-line) that the scientific evidence for organic food's healthier claims is clear and persuasive. (Melchett is "policy director of the Soil Association, a UK organic food and farming organisation.") But will that sway governments...

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This little cartoon is so funny and yet so true.

Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff

(from xkcd, via Scott)...

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Confrontation of good versus evil: Re-examining the Stanford Prison Experiment

Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die

Philip Zimbardo, professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University and the guy who conducted the Stanford Prison Experiment in 1971, writes today in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the lessons and conduct of that pyschological test. The conclusion of...

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Darwin's Delay: aka I've got a few alternate theories

Recently, I read an interesting piece on something known as "Darwin's Delay." Briefly, this is a mystery which queried why it took 20 odd years for Darwin to take his theory of evolution from his own private musings in...

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Acids vs d-orbitals: An ULTIMATE Pre-game face off!!

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

PRESS CENTER | UPDATED BRACKET KAPOW!!...

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Mountain Top Removal Update: Oprah's In On It Too!

Category: Mountaintop Coal Removal

Grist has been posting many excellent links, discussions, and interviews about Mountaintop Coal Removal in the Appalachians. It's been a while since we added to our MTR posts (one, two, three, four), so allow me to do so now. photo...

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Rejecting Future Nobel Laureates, A Compilation of Bad Editorial Decisions

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

Article about rejected scientific articles can't get published!

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Down to the SWEET SIXTEEN! The Science Spring Showdown Continues.

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

PRESS CENTER | UPDATED BRACKET GAMES TO BE PLAYED NEXT WEEK (April 2nd to 6th, 2007)...

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Flowercasting

Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment

How do horticulturists know when the cherry blossoms will bloom? An educated guess.

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The TERRY writing challenge -four days left...

Category: About writing generally

Another writing contest I'm affiliated with. And to reiterate, pretty much anything goes as long as it fits (even remotely) in the global issues genre. Plus (plus), there's a category for non-UBC folk, and the insider info is that we...

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