HFO-1234yf, a climate-friendly alternative refrigerant for car air conditioning systems touted by environmental activists, may instead be a greater problem than the products they insisted was causing pollution.
Money does not buy happiness, it is said, and apparently it does not factor much into optimism either. 20 percent of humanity hoards 83 percent of the world's wealth but the vast majority of people, including the 60 percent of the world possessing just 6 percent of world wealth, think the next 5 years will be better for them.Yes, despite an economic recession, famine, thousands of years without a single day bereft of war somewhere in the world and media reports about a flu epidemic afflicting the Earth, a new study from the University of Kansas and Gallup indicates that humans are optimistic. Apparently it is just our nature.
70% of you, man or woman, will have an HPV infection at some point in your life. There is no cure for HPV, just as there is no cure for the common cold and in most people, an HPV infection will clear up on its own, like the common cold. It can also be passed on to other people during the infection period, like the common cold.
What happens when a guy married to an art historian who dislikes religion writes a book using science? "Angels&Demons", that's what. It's the book Dan Brown wrote that made even less sense than "The DaVinci Code", because it was written before that blockbuster hit, even though the new movie seems like a sequel. Because it was written three years earlier, he had yet to refine his craft of jumbling vaguely non-specific pop social science with revisionist history - though he still knows he dislikes Catholics enough - and basically works in the expected conspiracy theory with some science as the weapon.
I have a confesson to make; I'm probably smarter than you.
Jan Hendrik Schön, if you have heard the name, will either fascinate or enrage you. His ability to progress from ridiculous fibs to world-class deception as a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey is certainly impressive.How did fellow scientists let him get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? It deserves a whole book, and Eugenie Samuel Reich is here to help. If you can't sit through a whole book like Plastic Fantastic (out next week), her short version is in Physics World.
I never get tired of talking about the problems with both deficit thinking and framing - and misguided people never get tired of doing both regardless.
If you like blue jeans, well, I think you're really a lazy dresser, but you are at least not alone historically. Since the Middle Ages, blue has also been the color worn by nobility.
Houston, Texas, hometown of both Roger Clemens and Walter Cronkite (and, errr, David Khoresh if we're being comprehensive) is a bellweather city for the US, says a researcher who happens to live in Houston - in that it is now more Democrats than Republicans and minorities are the majority. According to the data, if this trend continues and it's really indicative of a nationwide trend as claimed, Houston (and therefore all of America) could be hispanic gay men by 2030.
When I was a kid, 'toxic' assets were not assets at all; they were called 'liabilities.' That's why asset and liability columns exist on these things called 'spreadsheets.' But I am neither a politician nor a banker so I have poor grasp of things I know nothing about. Much like this Timothy Geithner guy.But apparently toxic assets do exist because banks around the world are being dragged down by them. Who would have thought that mortgage-backed securities based on a housing bubble fueled by people who couldn't afford their homes would ever be a problem? Well, me, but I was told I hated poor people and minorities for daring to ask.
It's Earth Day, in case you can't tell by our swanky green Earth logo in the header, and that means people will be thinking about Nature (the bitch, not the magazine) and our impact on her. I didn't say people would be thinking clearly, but they will be thinking.So instead of shocking and awing you with my dark humor and divine genius, I will instead ask a question; what kind of science could you do if you got sent back to 10,000 BC?
Quick, can you answer the question about the dog with the neuromuscular disease myasthenia gravis? If not, you'd be lost at Neurobowl, the highlight of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.Poseurs need not apply. Though they all know the drinking game, these cats make fun of the medical riddles and the doctors on the TV show "House." Except for Olivia Wilde ("Thirteen"). They all like her.
There was a time when it was virtually impossible not to believe in God. That made sense; life had (and certainly still has) many mysteries and a divine hand made sense of an irrational world, at least in the sense that you could believe in one supernatural thing rather than many.But over time two important things happened that should have killed religion; the world got 'smaller' in the sense that a lot more information about people and cultures became available and science was able to explain a much larger, very fundamental and far-reaching set of things about the world in terms of natural laws.
