AI Has A Cerebellum Now
We're bombarded with information at all times, so much that if we had to try and process it all times, we'd be paralyzed. Our cerebellum does information damage control by filtering out...
Technology
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Mathematics
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RIP To Dr. William Foege, The Man Whose Math Eliminated Smallpox
In the modern world, it is easy to be newly concerned about the World Health Organisation. They were the last to declare COVID-19 a pandemic, they said not to blame China, and stood by while China...
Science & Society
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How Ancel Keys Went From MAHA Hero To MAHA Villain
If a lot of the food and health claims you read and hear today seem like things left over from the 1970s, that's because they are. The food activist community, vegetarians and other diet groups,...
Sports Science
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The US of Borg: Are Americans Taking Over Soccer?
Soccer purists have long feared the “Americanization” of the game. But in one key respect, it is already happening: ownership.
Random Thoughts
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A Wall Is Also A Road
Skip the glossary. Yes, it's the kind of thing editors love because of the famous communication guidance 'assume a lack of vocabulary but not a lack of intelligence' but that is when...
Humor
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LHC Unveils New Hugs Boson - Embraces Supersymmetry With It
Supersymmetry proponents, who have been inconsolable since the MERCURY and DVDMS experiments of the Large Halidone Collider (LHC) began eliminating most of the places where shadow particles of real...
Glazed America: What Doughnuts Tell Us About Our Culture
Few things say as much about our culture as the food we eat. A new book, Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut by Paul R. Mullins, Ph.D., an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis…
Mayan Chocolate
At Wally’s Bicycle Works in San Luis Obispo there is more than what meets the eye. At his shop Wally Ajanel keeps a stash of something other than bicycle paraphernalia—something that he claims is 100…
Elsevier Announces 2007 Journal Impact Factor Highlights
AMSTERDAM, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --
- 43 Elsevier Journals Receive Top Category Rank; Journal Citations Grow 10 Percent; Lancet and Cell Each Increase and Retain Leadership Positions
Elsevier, the…
Why Do Men Share Their Creative Work Online More Than Women?
A recent Northwestern University study has a surprising results - substantially more men are likely to share their creative work online than women even though both genders engage in creative…
Religion And Medicine - Chaplains In Hospitals
Between 54 percent and 64 percent of hospitals had chaplaincy services between 1980 and 2003, despite changes over the last fifteen years in national accreditation guidelines making the religious and…
The Protein Diet Debate Rages On
The modern debate about protein has extended far beyond the Atkin's Diet and into a large part of our culture. On this site alone, you can find articles written by T. Colin Campbell, who says that '…
The Digital Revolution Is Over! Long Live The Digital Revolution!
That convergence of media, telecommunication, information technology and consumer electronics you've been hearing about? Mostly hype, says new research from Cass Business School, London, and it's…
In Basketball Coaching, Experts Make The Best Leaders
Star players make better basketball coaches, according to research by scholars at the University of Warwick and Cornell University. The research is further evidence that experts in their field rather…
Can Local Background Checks Prevent Handgun Suicides?
States that perform local-level background checks for firearms purchases are more effective in reducing firearm suicide and homicide rates than states that rely only on a federal-level background…
Socrates, Critical Thinking And Modern Education
Socrates (470-399 BC) may have lived centuries ago but the methods connected with him never go out of date.
Socratic methods(1) have developed independently in various countries. They all describe…
