Then… the answer. Reminds me of a Dr Wiseman trick!
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This interests me, because it was actually one of the questions that Dr Martin Bridgstock and I did for our survey of over a thousand Australians on paranormal, pseudoscientific and conspiracy theories. Yes, it’s forming the basis of my M.Ed dissertation, so you’ll just have to read my blog-posts to get an idea of my [...]
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Thanks to Wired.com: “OMG! Have you heard that huge atom smasher in Europe powers up for the first time tomorrow? Of course you have. You’ve also heard it repeated over and over that the Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, most expensive scientific instrument in history and that it’s going to change our fundamental understanding [...]
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This one is for Gaz and Mike. Heh.
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First, check out Digital Cuttlefish and his take on the news: There is water ice on Mars within reach of the Mars Phoenix Lander, NASA scientists announced Thursday. Photographic evidence settles the debate over the nature of the white material seen in photographs sent back by the craft. As seen in lower left of this [...]
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Ha, in response to my entry to the Classic Science Papers challenge (all done! Check them out!), a friend sends me the following as a suggestion for my next entry (I believe A Blog Around the Clock’s Coturnix thinks it now should become a blog carnival?). ‘Social Factors Influencing Problem Solving In Women’ by Hoffman [...]
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So, I’m still waiting on a reply from DORE Australia, after reading a great blogger on the topic of DORE. You see, I have an unanswered question. Something I emailed to them last month and got a cheery reply to, even! Simple enough question, I thought. “Why would the Australian website for DORE claim that [...]
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Big thanks to Wired Science who has picked ten of the best videos from YouTube and their own show on PBS to highlight the wonderful things chemistry can do! Despite the tendency for whizz-bangs that we often get in such collections (it was pretty much the staple of the lab-tech show at the last World [...]
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