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A lot’s been happening. The human phylogenetic graph is looking curiouser and curiouser .
Continue Reading →A new paper in the journal European Neurology reports on a remarkable case of perceptual distortion that’ll please any connoisseur of neurogothic: A 48-year-old woman woke up one morning …
Continue Reading →Mark Bittman, the popular food writer for the New York Times, has written a column that is almost beyond parody for its unintentional irony. The only way to fully appreciate …
Continue Reading →Here’s the smartphone technology that alerts a doctor when patients are headed for trouble. At the Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, nurses can see into the lives…
Continue Reading →Credit: Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African Americans My own inclination has been to not get bogged down in the latest race and IQ controversy because I don’t have…
Continue Reading →A so-called metal-organic framework could offer a better way to get at the vast uranium resource dissolved in the ocean. A new material could potentially be used to…
Continue Reading →With dozens of new features, Google’s social network is becoming more like a photo service and a news site. Despite the 190 million people that Google says use its social network…
Continue Reading →When the definitive history of the GMO debate is written, Jeffrey Smith is going to figure prominently in the section on pseudoscience. He is the equivalent of an anti-vaccine leader, …
Continue Reading →Last night the sun unleashed its latest tirade: the third flare in as many days, and the most powerful one in 2013 so far. Exploding from the Sun’s surface with energy …
Continue Reading →Kevin Mitchell of Wiring the Brain has a very long post up inveighing against the specter of eugenics. I don’t have a great deal of time to engage Kevin right…
Continue Reading →One way to understand how the ecosystem of the Antarctic originated is to look at its very base: tiny organisms called dinoflagellates, the little creatures that attract bigger creatures, and …
Continue Reading →To an arachnophobe they may seem universally creepy, but spiders can actually be nice. One strange species of spider, Anelosimus studiosus, consists of individuals of two distinct personalities: docile and …
Continue Reading →You have to wonder after looking at this image whether nature has an imagination. I know it doesn’t, but still… You’re looking at sand dunes in the Namib desert, as …
Continue Reading →There are two camps that favor labeling genetically modified [GM] foods: 1) The “Right to Know” people, who say they just want to know what’s in their food. This is …
Continue Reading →The same researchers previously mapped racist Tweets about President Obama. In both cases there’s reason to be a little skeptical.
Continue Reading →Best wishes to all the mothers out there (including this one).
Continue Reading →Last year, I blogged about a new and very pretty way of displaying the data about the human ‘connectome’ – the wiring between different parts of the brain. But there are …
Continue Reading →The usual. I haven’t been able to blog much because of various other responsibilities, but I definitely do feel pent up posting energy. So when I come back I assume…
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Continue Reading →Cite: :10.1080/00224499.2011.628132 The above figure displays results from males in the General Social Survey who answer yes to the proposition that they’ve watched a pornographic film over the past year. This…
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