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Space Warriors And STEM: An Interview With Thomas Horn And Tim Hall

It's not often that the Hallmark Channel gets a shout-out on Science 2.0 but when they send young people into space, I'm in. I got an email about an upcoming movie and it intrigued me so the publicist not only put me in touch with interesting people to in ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2013 - 2:14pm - 0 attachments

Prediction: 'Dark Genome' Popularity May Make 'Dark' The Top Science Media Cliche Of 2013

... but even journalists are sick of writing how 'Baffled', 'Stunned' and 'Alarmed' scientists are by the findings of every paper that gets ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 3 2013 - 9:35am - 0 attachments

Maybe We Need A McDonald's For Healthy Foods

Food so cheap that poor people can be fat is a miracle only dreamed about by philosophers ad economists throughout history. It was previously believed that the labor force needed to produce enough food would outstrip the food they could produce, somethi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2013 - 4:44pm - 0 attachments

At Least It Wasn't Horse: No Meat At All In Iceland Meat Pie

... found "no signs of any DNA from any mammal." Iceland stunned - no meat in 'beef pie' product , The New Age ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Mar 11 2013 - 5:07pm - 0 attachments

Do You Trust Technology?

An organizer of the 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems ( http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/ ) sent a CFP for a minitrack on Trust in Information Systems: A user’s trust and distrust in information systems [IS] are important components ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Feb 27 2013 - 10:18pm - 0 attachments

The Extended Phenotype - How Richard Dawkins Got It Wrong Twice

       “The Extended Phenotype – The Long Reach of the Gene” is the book Richard Dawkins wants you to read “if you read nothing else of mine” because “It is probably the finest thing I shall ever write.” It purpo ...

Article - Steve Davis - Feb 25 2013 - 8:10pm - 0 attachments

What's Wrong With Superrationality?

... Yet, although there is no paradox, most people are stunned by PD's sub-optimal outcome. Many of them reason they would play the ...

Article - Johannes Koelman - Jan 12 2013 - 2:51pm - 0 attachments

What Would Cast Doubt On Evolution? Spontaneous Generation

Advocates of Intelligent Design (ID) creationism like to play Stump the Scientist by asking evolutionary biologists, "what would disprove evolution?" Several answers have been given 1 , but I want to add another: "spontaneous gene ...

Contest Spring 2010 Article - Adam Retchless - Jan 18 2013 - 9:50am - 0 attachments

Federal Microbiological Data Program For Food Testing Shut Down

... to eliminate funding for it and the Republican Congress, stunned there was something they could stop funding, dutifully complied.   ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 11 2013 - 5:30am - 0 attachments

When Science Goes To Pot

Disclaimer: I have never smoked pot. Not interested. But, I have been very interested in the decades-old debate about it. On one side you have people who claim it as a benign, useful substance that should be legal. On the other side, you have people who c ...

Article - David Sloan - Jan 1 2013 - 2:58pm - 0 attachments