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Halloween Horror Science: Are Chickens That Learn A Bigger Threat To Us Than AI?

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) vegetarian advocacy group ...

Ignore Critics, Gen Z, We Weren't Smarter In 1984

It's commonplace for older generations to criticize the young. In my early career, an older fellow...

Taking The Book Of The Dead To Heart

In ancient Egypt, the heart was the key to a happy afterlife. It lived on after death, they believed...

American CO2 Is Below War War II Levels But We Keep Emissions High In Poor Countries

In politics, one way to make your belief in alternative energy seem feasible is to make its competitors...

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UFO Religion Forced To Cancel Mega-Orgy - And Other Christmas Stories

Dec 25 2008 | comment(s)

What happened to tolerance and diversity?

The Raelian movement, a UFO religion who believe we were created by aliens, were going to promote world peace by having tons and tons of sex but they had to cancel it due to pressure. I mean literally tons of sex; they said they had 250 participants. And the people who show up for orgies like that are not exactly going to be supermodels, if you know what I mean. So, if you were planning on attending International Orgasm Day in Tel Aviv this year, you need to make other plans.

To the anonymous prankster who sent me the article above and then included this NASA glacier graphic right after it, you have my eternal respect.

President George Bush Gives A Presidential Award To Embryonic Stem Cell Researcher (You Read That Right)

Dec 24 2008 | comment(s)

George Bush, he of the horned skull and demonic scowl, mortal enemy of all science, with the funding increases during his tenure being just a clever headfake so he could ruin science for everyone under the age of 30, has done something no one (well, no one who thinks Republicans are all evil and hate science) thought he would do; he gave a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE) to Kevin Eggan, PhD, principal faculty member at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

Science Blogs And Shock Value

Dec 23 2008 | comment(s)

Coturnix at ScienceBlogs.com had an interesting post yesterday on part of the reason they (Science Blogs) do things the way they do them and the way he says more science writers should - shock value and, at the end of it all, maybe a shot at a greater science democracy.

Scientific Blogging Features - Let's Add Some More Social Media

Dec 20 2008 | comment(s)

Probably tomorrow I am going to do an advanced 'primer' on all the features we have here because I know most people don't even read the FAQ - and that's okay, you shouldn't have to read a FAQ to read an article or leave a comment, but for more exotic stuff and experienced users/contributors, it wouldn't hurt to have a short document that highlights the big stuff that goes beyond the FAQ.

For now, I will just highlight the big (non bug-related) things we did this week.

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Are Obama's Science Picks A Slap To Life Sciences?

Dec 19 2008 | comment(s)

When I learned that Barack Obama had picked John Podesta as his transition chief, I was not impressed, being that he has a crank belief the government is hiding UFOs.

The folks at ScienceDebate don't necessarily agree, though I think they are going to bless anything Obama does, because about Podesta they wrote a few days ago "Clearly, this is a man who gets it, working, it seems, for a president who gets it."(email, no link on their website)

Live Small, Live Better - And They Really Mean Live Small

Dec 18 2008 | comment(s)

As you can imagine, running a swanky science publication ends up getting me a lot of press releases. People want to get the word out about what they are doing and I make no secret of the fact that I want to know what's going on because I don't have time to proactively go out and find the latest stuff. So I like getting them, including the ones I want to make fun of.