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May 12, 2011 | Science & Technology

Morgellons: Is it all a load of old cobblers?

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Morgellons disease doesn’t exist, say the scientific research community. Does too, say the people who claim to suffer from this…

August 17, 2010 | General Geek Culture, Language, Literature & Linguistics, Science & Technology

Happy Birthday Hugo Gernsback

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Yesterday, 16 August, marked the 122nd anniversary of the birth of Hugo Gernsback, master of science fiction and father of…

September 17, 2009 | Science & Technology

Cymothoa exigua exists on a lick & a promise

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Meet Cymothoa exigua, a nasty little parasitic crustacean that has evolved a particularly ingenious way of making himself comfortable in…

August 25, 2009 | Fun & Humour, Politics, Science & Technology

The Boy Who Heard Too Much

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Great article on vintage-style phreaking in Rolling Stone. The article includes this alleged exploit: Last year, during the presidential campaign,...

June 30, 2009 | Religion & Philosophy, Science & Technology

Creationism, Cretinism?

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Don’t know whether to laugh or cry when confronted by creationist nonsense? Neither, apparently, do palaeontologists. From Yahoo News: Paleontologists…

February 26, 2009 | Science & Technology

The Evolution of Art

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Are we genetically predisposed to appreciate listening to Sinatra or staring at a Seurat?

February 9, 2009 | Science & Technology

(Over-)Exposing Bad Vaccine Science

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Science writer and blogger Ben Goldacre (him of the Bad Science blog and numerous Guardian articles) is having a spot…

January 15, 2009 | Science & Technology

Dyslexia a fairytale, says British MP

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Lordy lordy lordy. Politically backward MP Graham Stringer has called dyslexia a “fictional malady”, made up as an excuse for…

November 24, 2008 | Science & Technology

Happy Evolution Day!

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Happy Evolution Day, Charles Darwin. And thank you for making our world just that little less dark and medieval.

September 8, 2008 | Science & Technology

The End of the World Has Been Postponed

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If anything you say contains the phrase “will destroy the world”, and you’re not joking, you’re a nut. Said nuts…

June 5, 2008 | Science & Technology

The Random Man

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “polymath scholar of randomness and knowledge”, on the global financial meltdown: [...] most economists, and almost all…

March 28, 2008 | General Geek Culture, Language, Literature & Linguistics, Science & Technology

So Long, Flight Lieutenant Clarke

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The world bids Arthur farewell: AP: Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90 http://youtube.com/watch?v=8HwFP933Y_Q Arthur C. Clarke: 1917 – 2008…

March 28, 2008 | General Geek Culture, Science & Technology

The Kardashev Scale

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Named after Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, the Kardashev Scale “is a general method of classifying how technologically advanced a civilization…

March 17, 2008 | Science & Technology

Bad Phorm

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Tim Berners-Lee on the scheme by three British ISPs to use Phorm to deliver targeted advertising to their users: Different…

February 20, 2008 | Science & Technology

Large Numbers Are Funny. That’s Why.

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This, according to Scott Funkhouser (quoted in Nature), is what the answer to life, the universe and everything could look…