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Marijuana For ADHD?

Cannabis and THC, its main psychoactive compound, have been endorsed by people suffering from anxiety...

Rutgers Study - Forcing DEI Programs On People Increases Hostility

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Minnesota Trial Lawyers Want To Ban Neonics - Here Is Why That Is A Mistake

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The Toxic Masculinity Of Disney Movies

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Hank Campbell

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Go Spock Yourself!

Apr 10 2009 | comment(s)

It's an idea so brilliant, I wish I had thought of it (though that gimmicked Google street view art project Josh linked to made me a bit jealous as well) ... in preparation for the upcoming Star Trek movie you can make yourself into a Star Trek character. Is it perfect? Well, no, anything that requires some manual input in a system I don't yet understand will be quirky but that is mostly my fault. Side by side, the pic I gave them and what they said is my Star Trek character. Not too bad, actually, though I seemed to have set the width for the eyes strangely (you'll see what I mean if you try it).

Bonnie Bassler, 'The Bacteria Whisperer', Gives A Great Talk On The Secret Social Lives Of Bacteria

Apr 09 2009 | comment(s)

I'm not usually much for video - text allows me to do three other things at the same time whereas video occupies two of my senses and annoys me when I am playing guitar. And I would like to ban all use of "X Whisperer" after the name of every person who thinks they have something clever to say.

But when someone I have never heard of (which means nothing, I am no microbiology expert) on a site I have never heard of(ditto regarding pop science) does something terrific in an interesting, elegant fashion, I am willing to kill 18 minutes of my life not being ADD, or whatever they call people like me who usually have to do multiple things at once.

So thanks Bonnie Bassler ... and you too Ted.com.

Is Bugs Bunny Making Your Child A Killer?

Apr 07 2009 | comment(s)

A team of Oregon State University researchers say they have implemented a classroom-based intervention that reduces the amount of violent TV that children watch - by 18 percent among first- through fourth-grade children. And that's good, they say, because youth violence is a big issue, though not so much as 30 years ago when everyone assumed we would be living out scenarios from either "The Warriors" or "Escape From New York" by now.

Seki - Japan's Legendary Age Of Shogun Had A Legendary Mathematician Too

Apr 06 2009 | comment(s)

You'll be forgiven if you didn't know Seki Takakazu's work on matrices came out years before Gottfried Leibniz; Japan wanted it that way. But out-Bernoulli'ing Bernoulli? He needs to get some respect for that and I am here to help.

The Science Of Baseball: What Is The Fastest A Pitcher Can Throw?

Apr 05 2009 | comment(s)

Unless you are a true baseball fan, you have probably never heard of Bob Feller. Maybe you have heard of Nolan Ryan. They were classic power pitchers. They threw hard and they threw for strikes.

Even if you are a baseball fan, unless you live and breathe the Detroit Tigers, you have probably never heard of Joel Zumaya.

Right. Who? While playing in the American League Championship in 2006, he threw a fastball clocked at 104.8 MPH, the fastest in history. How can a guy who threw that fast not be on the cover of every Wheaties box in the civilized world? Because the following year he was 1-4 with a 4.28 ERA; hardly the stuff of legends.

Do Male And Female Scientists Perceive Setbacks Differently?

Apr 05 2009 | comment(s)

I came across a blog today, written by a female scientist (apparently - it's an anonymous blog and that's okay, if Obama's teleprompter can have a blog I suppose anyone sentient can also, but anonymity speaks of a certain paranoia) and she wondered if men perceived science setbacks differently than women. So I began to wonder too.