Worst Science Article of the Week: Lose Weight by Reading?, written 17 hours ago, Obese children, get thee to a library! A press release yesterday announced: "Duke Researchers Show Reading Can Help Obese Kids Lose Weight." Not so fast. Before you click over to Amazon.com, let's take a clos...

I Want That On My Desk By Two Million Years Ago, written 9 hours ago, Whether you've had to make last-minute photocopies, cough up the last three dollars in your wallet to fetch coffee, or have your brilliant idea shot down in a meeting, everyone has had at least one boss who has been, let's face it...

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Never gonna vaccinate, never gonna get that shot, written 9 hours ago, I don't know if this is real or not — the audio and video are ...

deCODE demoted, written 20 hours ago, I have something to tell you about deCODE--there's good news and there's bad news. First, for the good news: today deCODE announced that it has filed an IND with the FDA for a new drug on cognition designed to combat...

Roger Bate's false history, written 13 hours ago, This is the long-awaited part 2 of my response to Roger Bate's reply to the article on DDT in Prospect by John Quiggin and me. (Part 1 is here.) In this part I look at Bate's false history of DDT and malaria. Here's Bate's history: But while there we...

Searching Out Biological Alternatives To Chemical Pesticides, written 10 hours ago, With increasing consumer pressure on both farmers and supermarkets to minimize the use of chemical pesticides in fruit and vegetables, a new study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) looks at wh...

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A Sinusoidal Acrylic Bracelet Design, written 6 days ago, Sleek sinusoids for your wrists. Laser-cut acrylic. A free design from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, complete with dowloadable files so that you can make your own. (And isn't this a good time for your first laser project?)In case you haven...

Compassion meditation may improve physical and emotional responses to psychological stress, written 11 hours ago, Data from a new study suggests that individuals who engage in compassion meditation may benefit by reductions in inflammatory and behavioral responses to stress that have been linked to ...

Coming (Real) Soon...A NGC Community Area, written 5 days ago, All of your curious questions about shows... All of your pent up comments about the channel... All of your advice for our filmakers... Will now have a space where you can go and express yourself. Launching in the next week or so, Nationa...

A New Image for Nukes?, written 1 day ago, Looking at both sides of the energy debate: the hard path versus the soft path.

Universe's lumpiness not enough to do away with dark energy, written 15 hours ago, A new paper asks whether or not the "lumpiness" of the universe is enough to explain its accelerating expansion, a phenomenon currently explained by the enigmatic dark energy.Read More...

Bad Science teaching resources for schools, written 1 hour ago, A couple of years ago I made a bunch of school resources for teachers with the organisation NESTA and a group of teachers. Since I mentioned them in the book a couple of people have asked for them, so here they are:

Extreme Coastal Changes and Storm Surge Measurements from Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, written 1 day ago, What: Reporters are invited to attend a special presentation about the impacts of Hurricanes Ike and Gustav on the Texas and Louisiana coast. Compelling before-and-after photographs of the storms ...

my first major research paper accepted for publication, written 1 day ago, I recently had a paper accepted to one of the primary peer-reviewed journals in my field. Actually, I've published a number of short notes and papers, mostly observational in nature, in smaller or regional journals -- a numbe...

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Compassion meditation may improve physical and emotional responses to psychological stress, written 11 hours ago, Data from a new study suggests that individuals who engage in compassion meditation may benefit by reductions in inflammatory and behavioral responses to stress that have been linked to ...