Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
From Popular Mechanics: What were the speed-shifting, color-morphing UFOs that mystified hundreds of eyewitnesses around Stephenville, Texas, last January? Optical Illusions? Secret Military Operations? Alien Spaceships? PM spent months investigating UFO conspiracy theories, looking for straightforward explanations. A special report.
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I get email! Why is science important? — A collection of thoughts from leading scientists, public figures, …and you. I am a British science teacher who runs a “collaborative” blog project at www.whyscience.co.uk which seeks to find meaningful, satisfying answers to the question “why is science important?’ I’d be most grateful if you would take a [...]
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From XKCD: Have I ever mentioned that I had two students do a preliminary study on ‘Bloody Mary’ / ‘Candyman‘ by doing this exact same thing? They had issues finding enough non-pop culture resources on the origin of doing it though and eventually switched their project to just looking at the Ouija board. I should [...]
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From Den Of Geek.com, about Firefly, Dollhouse, Sarah Connor Chronicles…: I wish I could give sci-fi fans some note of hope, but the shows that should live on get put on networks that conspire to kill them, and shows that should’ve ended two seasons ago (I’m looking at you, Smallville) linger on because their home [...]
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Sceptic’s Book Blog expands on the story: However, this is not the first time expensive “cosmeceuticals” have been declared a rip-off. In 2007, a consumer organisation in the UK known as Which? Magazine found skin care companies were “blinding consumers with science” using terms like nanoparticles, pentapeptides, lipopeptides and hyaluronic acid. These are all legitimate [...]
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After reading over the work of Digital Cuttlefish, poet laureate of the Scientific Blogohedron, and a comment they made, long ago, I began pondering to what extent is it true that one MUST practice in order to write good poetry. Since that time, I’ve sent two friends copies of Stephen Fry’s guide to poetry – [...]
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