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A story to improve your opinion of humanity: Egypt's majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the…
3 Quarks Daily has announced their third annual science blogging prize! This year, the final results will be judged by none other than Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist extraordinaire from Harvard University. Nominations are open now, and are for any post published between May 22nd, 2010 and…
We have ice, ice, baby. Also, some links. Science: The Antibiotics Crisis Time for Astrology to Sign Out (for the Huffington Post, astrology seems to be a woo too far) Superbugs, Agricultural Antibiotics, and Farm-Worker Infections: A New Study Connects the Dots Sit. Stay. Parse. Good Girl! Other…
Damn you, PZ! Not only are you muscling into my territory (what, aren't creationism and atheism enough?), but you had to subject me to the most mind-numbing example of why homeopaths are the most clueless purveyors of pseudoscience there are! Behold, Dr. Charlene Werner, an optometrist (apparently…