A book that criticizes alternative medicine to treat conditions that have names but no criteria is controversial - because it runs up against a supplement and alternative medicine enabled by governments that believe science can't be trusted
Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman gets called a lot of things. He calls himself the greatest cornerback in the NFL (and Seattle fans tend to agree). Sportswriters and some other players call him a loudmouth and a showboater. Fans of other teams call him a lot of things that shouldn’t see print (even on the Internet). One thing you’re not likely to hear anyone on ESPN call Sherman, though, is “scientist.”And yet, an elite professional athlete like Richard Sherman is, in fact, extremely adept at doing science. Not the white-lab-coat, equations-on-a-blackboard sort of science, but the far older and universal process of observing, making and testing models of the universe.
Published in 1815, Smith’s Geological Map of England and Wales and Part of Scotland was the first geologic map to cover such a large area in such fine detail. William Smith, British Geological SurveyBy John Howell, Professor, Chair in Geology and Petroleum Geology at University of Aberdeen.
by Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology at University of AdelaideI was going to avoid blogging on this topic, but seeing as the story made the Australian with the headline “Chemicals in lipstick and cleaning products linked to early menopause”, I feel I have to weigh in a bit to avoid undue panic and the inevitable dangers of people hurling their lipsticks out the window at great speed. Also, there are issues of science communication and “the dose makes the poison”
Jean Valentine, a bombe operator at Bletchley in the 1940s. Rui Vieira/PABy Bryony Norburn, University of Buckingham
Spider-Man's breakfasts must be unreal levels of eggs. warriorpoetBy Mark Lorch, University of HullWhile stuck in a hotel room I got sucked into watching the 2002 "Spider-Man" movie. And it struck me that Peter Parker must have an enormously high-protein diet to generate all that spider silk he goes through. So being the geek that I am, I wondered what his protein consumption has to be to sustain his villain-beating lifestyle.
Wise advice. Julia Wolf, CC BY-NC-SABy Arun Vishwanath, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Climate scientists will be either ineffectual or counter-productive if they testify before Congress. EPABy Mathis Hampel, University of East AngliaWestern liberal democracies believe that in difficult political decisions science serves as a referee and arbiter of truth.
Who's really driving your car? Saad Faruque, CC BY-SABy Andrew Smith, The Open University and Blaine Price, The Open University
Opposing this law change is not anti-feminist. shutterstockBy Pam Lowe, Aston UniversityA campaign is underway in the United Kingdom to make it illegal to abort a child based on its gender. Proponents say they are worried about women being coerced into terminating female fetuses and that action needs to be taken to stop discrimination against baby girls.
Time-dependent Maxwell's equations in media By Robyn Arianrhod, Monash UniversityIt’s hard to imagine life without mobile phones, radio and television. Yet the discovery of the electromagnetic waves that underpin such technologies grew out of an abstract theory that’s 150 years old.
There are up to 400 chemical compounds on human skin that could play a role in attracting mosquitoes. sookie, CC BY-SABy Cameron Webb, University of SydneyThere’s always one in a crowd, a sort of harbinger of the oncoming mosquito onslaught: a person mosquitoes seem to target more than others. What is it about these unlucky chosen few that makes them mosquito magnets?
