#science (65 links)
- Food Can Be Literally Addictive, New Evidence Suggests scientificamerican.com
Given the option, most rats will choose sugar instead of cocaine. Their lust for the carbohydrate is so intense that they will go as far as to self-administer…
- Energy makes time | everything changes everythingchanges.us
Energy makes time 04 Aug 2023 by Mandy Brown BECAUSE I WORK WITH a lot of high performers, the kind of people who are frequently responsive to both the unending…
WASHINGTON D.C.—The world's richest person, Jeff Bezos, unveiled his sweeping vision for humanity on Thursday afternoon in a Washington D.C. ballroom. With the…
- A Popular Benefit of Houseplants Is a Myth theatlantic.com
Deyan Georgiev / Manu Padilla / Shutterstock / The Atlantic When vine-curious Brooklynites walk into Tula Plants and Design —a small houseplant shop in…
- Welcome — Statistics Done Wrong statisticsdonewrong.com
Statistics Done Wrong¶ The woefully complete guide¶ If you’re a practicing scientist, you probably use statistics to analyze yourdata. From basic t tests and…
- Falcon Heavy Model - Flight 1 youtube.com
Falcon Heavy Model - Flight 1 20,154 views Up next Autoplay 6:45 TOP 10 Homemade ROCKETS Tech Planet 703K views 8:25 Flat Earthers vs. Falcon Heavy Launch hiith…
- Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design* Home 1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion. 2. To design a spacecraft right takes…
- Peer review: the end of an error? the-tls.co.uk
The end of an error? TIMOTHY GOWERS October 24, 2017 In 1998 the Lancet , one of Elsevier’s most prestigious journals, published a paper by Andrew Wakefield and…
The National Assessment of Educational Progress assesses student performance in reading at grades four, eight and 12 in both public and private schools.…
Movie screens are thundering with futuristic stories this year, from the final installment of The Hunger Games to The Martian . Both films started as books —…
Cyclists who wear bike helmets reduce their chance of a fatal head injury by 65%, according to a new study.Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images A…
- Belief in homeopathy is a moral test politics.co.uk
Everyone enjoys a laugh at homeopathy supporters. It brings us all together. It's a way for smug, intellectual people to be all smug and intellectual. So there…
← Home The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a new take on an idea that's been gaining some traction over the last few years, that is, to publish papers…
- The Vibram lawsuit, barefoot running and science perspectives | The Science of Sport sportsscientists.com · Archived on
Last week, Vibram, the company that makes the five-fingered running shoes (well, the first version), settled a $3.75 million class action lawsuit , bought in…
We didn’t know exactly what would pan out—the headline could have been that chocolate improves sleep or lowers blood pressure—but we knew our chances of getting at least one “statistically significant” result were pretty good.
Via kevan.
- British Gut britishgut.org
This is a unique open collaboration between the Department of Twin Research at King's College London and The American Gut Project (AGP) to try to understand…
- Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid - by Shaun Gallagher experimentingwithbabies.com
With babies. Not on babies. Kind of.
- Parenting Science – The science of child-rearing and child development parentingscience.com
Finally found something sciencey. Or at least, someone who attempts to look at literature, rather than parroting guesswork.
Dopplereffekt in the FT. WTF.
- 100,000 Stars workshop.chromeexperiments.com
An interactive 3D visualization of the stellar neighborhood, including over 100,000 nearby stars. Created for the Google Chrome web browser.
- The real meaning of the exoplanet revolution – Caleb Scharf – Aeon aeonmagazine.com
- It's Time to End the War on Salt: Scientific American scientificamerican.com
I've never been at war with salt myself.
- Plain English Nuclear: Yet another Japan reactor post plainenglishnuclear.blogspot.com
That's better.
Via kevan.
- Climate Change: Evidence climate.nasa.gov
NASA says, "the evidence for rapid climate change is compelling".
A few months ago, the London bartender Tony Conigliaro told me that weak cocktails can be more aromatic than stronger drinks. That observation provoked me to play with the proportions of alcohol and water in spirits and wines. Then this month, a barista showed me that I could make tastier coffee by brewing it with less ground coffee and more water. It’s true, as it turned out: Water is indeed a useful flavor enhancer, exactly because it dilutes other ingredients and can change their balance for the better.
- The Data-Driven Life - NYTimes.com nytimes.com
In the cozy confines of personal life, we rarely used the power of numbers. The techniques of analysis that had proved so effective were left behind at the office at the end of the day and picked up again the next morning. The imposition, on oneself or one’s family, of a regime of objective record keeping seemed ridiculous. A journal was respectable. A spreadsheet was creepy. And yet, almost imperceptibly, numbers are infiltrating the last redoubts of the personal. Sleep, exercise, sex, food, mood, location, alertness, productivity, even spiritual well-being are being tracked and measured, shared and displayed.
- Lazarus taxon en.wikipedia.org
In paleontology, a Lazarus taxon (plural taxa) is a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later.
Although these stories are reports about medical research, they are really about computing – in the sense that neither would have been possible without the application of serious computer power to masses of data. In that way they reflect a new – but so far unacknowledged – reality; that in many important fields leading-edge scientific research cannot be done without access to vast computational and data-handling facilities, with sophisticated software for analysing huge data-sets.
- The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery - Microsoft Research research.microsoft.com
"The collection of essays expands on the vision of pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray for a new, fourth paradigm of discovery based on data-intensive science and offers insights into how it can be fully realized." Free book from Microsoft Research.
- h+ Magazine hplusmagazine.com
Covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing - and will change - human beings in fundamental ways.
Via paul.irish.
- Nuclear Power [MrReid.org] wordpress.mrreid.org
Mr Reid's excellent Interesting talk: "Everything you know about nuclear power is wrong".
- Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag - life - 18 August 2009 - New Scientist newscientist.com
Makes me want to stop using Google Maps.
Via blech.
The procession of technological discoveries is inevitable. When the conditions are right — when the necessary web of supporting technology needed for every invention is established — then the next adjacent technological step will emerge as if on cue. If inventor X does not produce it, inventor Y will.
So what is the organisation's end goal? Bowdler puts it simply: "To engage people with science who would not otherwise choose to immerse themselves in the subject."
- Brilliant Noise semiconductorfilms.com
Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure.
Via headlessness.
- Adactio: Articles—The System Of The World adactio.com
Brilliant. Wish I'd seen this.
Who says big ideas are rare?
"Science groups for young professionals who don’t wear white coats, like the year-old Secret Science Club at Union Hall, are cropping up in bars and bookstores all over the country." Great idea!
- Official: organic really is better - Times Online timesonline.co.uk
The evidence from the £12m four-year project will end years of debate and is likely to overturn government advice that eating organic food is no more than a lifestyle choice.
- Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health - Independent Online Edition > Health news.independent.co.uk
"A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage." Great timing.