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.
I didn't even know Scientific American Blogs still existed. They do, they were just irrelevant and no one remembered until a few days ago. Given their recent foray into nonsense, it can be the next place where denier for hire Paul Thacker pretends to be a journalist.Scientific American Blogs was the brainchild of blogging wunderkind Bora Zivkovic, who left Scienceblogs for PLOS, to build a blog network for them, and then when Scientific American wanted to retry blogging they recruited him.
America is producing more Ph.D.s than ever but federal funding for academic grants cannot keep pace with the expansion in university halls, bolstered by well-financed Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) outreach campaigns which promote the idea that technology is important for the 21st century, but then say that means working at a school.Meanwhile, tenured researchers are delaying retirement because they are still doing valuable work. With more applicants and experienced scientists with a proven track record competing at a later, is America in danger of a young brain drain?
An influential psychological theory, borne out in hundreds of experiments, may have been debunked, writes Daniel Engber, and then "how can so many scientists have been so wrong?"It sounds like a clarion call for concern about the scientific method. Yet it isn't. Instead, it was something that was rather predictable to anyone who knows how most modern (post-1960s) psychology experiments are conducted - and that in most cases they never are conducted, at least not in the way people who took science in school understand experiments.
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/11/lies-dirty-tricks-and-45-million-… past election, California voters shot down an initiative to put labels on GMO foods, which adds to a puzzle about California other states do not understand.Namely, how a state with more support for gay people and more anti-science hippies than any state in the country can be 'against' gay marriage and labels on food. isn't this state 66% Democrats?Well, of course, Californians are not against gay marriage and food labels at all but no one likes bad laws and in both cases the original efforts were designed to fool people into agreeing to lawsuits.
http://www.sciencecodex.com/node/68900/edit?destination=admin%2Fcontent… election season and that means you will hear and read lots of reasons why you should vote for one political candidate or another. Even science reasons.
It's the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson's polemic, "Silent Spring", which means there will be no end to her 'impact'.
A recent paper uses neuromarketing techniques - basically, electrodermal activity to detect fluctuations in the emotional and attentional state of subjects in response to commercial stimuli - to try and deduce a relationship between the hand and the use of stone tools, and the cognitive functions associated to the sensory and exploratory process of manipulation, in addition to the spatial relationship between hand and object.
Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration hinted a restriction on menthol in cigarettes might again be coming - and the stock markets reacted as expected, reading a government restriction as the first step toward a ban, which led to a casual government statement costing investors billions. Domestic cigarette company Altria stock dropped 3.6 percent, and it probably still isn't a good buy, since it was at a price/stock ratio of 4.7, about 30 percent above other cigarette companies.
As Science 2.0 approaches its 12th anniversary people have asked me about the reasons for its longevity. Some of if it just riding out the ups and downs of culture, of course, we are a boring but reliable science site, and obviously there was some luck. (1)
In the world of government-funded science, there is usually no applied outcome, no direct benefit to the public, and so the (1) struggle to be relevant (which in practical terms means continue to be allowed to do it) is real. As a result, there is no greater conflict than between those who recognize the need to popularize science and those who want it to be what they envision as pure and bereft of populist catering.Dr. Leon Lederman
Cardiac surgeon and television personality Dr. Oz was on The Today Show this week talking about cold remedies, and as usual he was a mix of evidence and shamanism. It's easy for the pro-science community to know when he's talking about magic potions and when he has a modicum of science.It's easy to be fooled. When Science 2.0 began, I quickly learned cancer was going to be cured, antioxidants and red wine would make us live forever, and NASA was about to find life on other planets. Then six months later we had university and government writing those same press releases all over again and journalists dutifully repeated them.
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Woo meter: 6, for vegan, gluten-free, kosher, Non-GMO Project, USDA Organic, and suggesting they are healthy alcohol.Square One Cucumber Vodka, which is their regular rye vodka mixed with, you guessed it, cucumber.
