Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
This one is thanks to Desiree. Created by XVIVO, a scientific animation company near Hartford, CT, the animation illustrates unseen molecular mechanisms and the ones they trigger, specifically how white blood cells sense and respond to their surroundings and external stimuli. Nuclei, proteins and lipids move with bug-like authority, slithering, gliding and twisting through 3D [...]
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During the time I was getting back from The Amazing Meeting Australia, I was also writing, submitting, editing, just plain taking part or even being the subject of discussion on a few podcast shows. Firstly – Strange Quarks were kind enough to air my essay on Series 1 Episode 4: Martin Poulter and Kylie Sturgess, [...]
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Great blogpost over at the Embiggen Books blog about the bestsellers during the Australian Amazing Meeting! He talks about his own impressions of the event and gives a top ten – here’s the top three from that: 1. Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan 2. The Australian Book of Atheism Edited by Warren Bonett 3. [...]
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I got an email from Brad Newsome yesterday alerting me to his article, all about ‘Oprah’s wide world of quackery’. If you’re not already a reader of his work at Skeptic Science, keep an eye out for future articles and investigations. Is Oprah bad for your health? Oprah Winfrey is here and no doubt she [...]
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The Digital Cuttlefish got a great review for their book! Their work has featured a few times in the Open Laboratory Blogging Anthologies (personal fave is the ‘The Evolutionary Biology Valentine’s Day Poem‘) and if you want to check them out online, every poem is available on the official site. I highly recommend this particular [...]
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Head to the Token Skeptic Episode 47 – On A Little Bit Of Douglas Adams With Maynard And Season’s Greetings to hear part of the audio – full interview on Maynard’s site here. Next to me on the table (and, in fact, in the photo you can see in this blog-post) is an audio cassette that [...]
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