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Category Archives: Science
Study: H. Pylori Infection May Boost Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Some Cancers
FuturePundit: Bacterial Infection Boosts Insulin-Resistant Diabetes Risk? H. Pylori is the bacterium that’s linked to the development of gastritis and certain ulcers of the stomach. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren won the 2005 Nobel Prize for discovering that link. Prior … Continue reading
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Hell Damn Fart! Infection May Cause Tourette’s-like Condition
Mail Online – Could an infection be behind mysterious Tourette’s-like syndrome affecting teenagers?. Nirvana – Tourette’s (Live at Reading 1992):
Two Hurricane Experts End 20 Years of December Hurricane Predictions
Hurricane experts admit they can’t predict hurricanes early; December forecasts too unreliable: OTTAWA — Two top U.S. hurricane forecasters, famous across Deep South hurricane country, are quitting the practice of making a seasonal forecast in December because it doesn’t work. … Continue reading
Climategate II – Longer, Harder, Uncut Emails
More emails, more bitchy scientific gossip, and more white labcoat backstabbing: You know what you get when you mix science and politics? You get politics, period. Hockey Stick Charlatan Michael Mann gets the worst of it from this batch of … Continue reading
Math Joke
Math joke from Anna, the civil engineering student and bartender at Brackins Blues Club: an infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one tells the bartender he wants a beer. The second one says he wants half … Continue reading
The Sleeper Hold
Post-seizure, I won’t be driving for a while. I was swapping stories with the guys on my ride home and remembered this one… I was in elementary school. Fifth grade or so roundabout ’78. Wrasslin’ was a big deal on … Continue reading
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Why you’ll hear me say “I don’t know” a lot
Penn Jillette – I don’t know, so I’m an atheist libertarian: My friend Richard Feynman said, “I don’t know.” I heard him say it several times. He said it just like Harold, the mentally handicapped dishwasher I worked with when … Continue reading
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Scientific War on Salt not so Scientific After All
Scientific American – It’s Time to End the War on Salt: This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the … Continue reading
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Is polarized light why birds run into windows?
Birds sometimes run into windows, especially big plate glass windows. Is polarized light or the blocking of same part of the reason? I went into a store and forgot to switch to my regular glasses my prescription sunglasses, which are … Continue reading
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“Is Sugar Toxic?”
Good roundup of information by Gary Taubes
Posted in Food & Drink, Science
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Best Repudiation of Homeopathy EVAR
“Why doesn’t the water retain the memory of all of the fish crap its been in contact with? Wouldn’t that skew the cure?” – Agammamon
Fake Autism-Vaccine Study: a Non-scientest Corrected the Science
The Last Psychiatrist – Wakefield And The Autism Fraud– The Other Part Of The Story: The analysis [by Deer] found that despite the claim in Wakefield’s paper that the 12 children studied were normal until they had the MMR shot, … Continue reading
Questioning the simplistic beliefs about obesity
The Inanity of Overeating: So if we eat more than we expend, we get fatter and the logic turns this around to say that we get fat because we eat more than we expend. And so, overeating and sedentary behavior … Continue reading
Democrats aren’t the party of science, either
The Obama Administration’s War On Science.
Scientific questions vs value questions
Ken Schultz: The question of how much society should be willing to sacrifice to protect endangered species just isn’t a scientific question–regardless of what your friendly neighborhood Ecologist, PhD says. How much should coal miners in West Virginia be willing … Continue reading
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Rare Spotted Skunk Photographed in Virginia
Cool. I had never heard of them, either.
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What the #@%? Paper *doesn’t* ignite at 451 degrees Fahrenheit?
Cracked – 6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong: Just about every critic and literary scholar on the planet viewed the novel as metaphor for the dangers of state-sponsored censorship. Can’t see this as much of a stretch, … Continue reading
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Science Struggles to Explain Keith Richards
Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers?
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“Down where the trees grow tall / Where everybody says ‘y’all’”
“Walk on in with that Southern drawl / And that’s what I like about the South” * “Scientists, using three NASA satellites, have created a first-of-its-kind map that details the height of the world’s forests.”
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How Science Reporting Works
A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal funny.
Posted in Funny Ha-Ha, Media Behaving Badly, Science
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