| Why fear and risk are hard problems | | In honor of the International Year of Chemistry, a nice analysis of why people fear "chemicals" out of proportion to actual risk, and why no amount of haughty rationalization is likely to change that. (Via Deborah Blum)...
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| How to: Celebrate Pi Day | | New Scientist has put together an extensive list of Pi Day-related events and features—including the Pi Phone, a number you can call to hear the digits of pi being read....
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| The U.S. military is getting serious about energy change | | One thing the military is getting right these days: Making the connection between fossil fuel dependence and insecurity. I did a lot of research in the past year on efforts throughout the Department of Defense as a whole, and especially within the Navy and Air Force, to improve energy efficiency on military bases in the United States. For instance, Jacksonville Naval Air Station, in Jacksonville, [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 08-Mar-2011 por Maggie Koerth-Baker en actionscience
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| Submit your questions to "Science Question from a Toddler" | | Later this month, I'm going to be picking back up on Science Question from a Toddler—a regular feature that finds the surprisingly deep science behind simple questions. But, in order to do that, I need your help. • Do you know a small person whose science questions are driving you batty? • Did you ask questions when you were little that your parents never really answered? • Ar [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 04-Mar-2011 por Maggie Koerth-Baker en actionscience
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| Why Wikipedia needs women | | Why does Wikipedia need more female contributors? Example A: The entry on Women In Science From World War II to the Present. No, seriously. There have been more than six. I swear. And not just in the United States and Britain....
[..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 09-Feb-2011 por Maggie Koerth-Baker en actionscience
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| What one study says about the effects of violent rhetoric in politics | | I had a conversation on Twitter Tuesday with several other science journalists and science bloggers about whether there's actually been much research done definitively linking violent political rhetoric to an increase in violent behavior. The connection makes common sense, but common sense and reality don't always line up. I've been curious what we actually KNOW about this, and how well we know it [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 13-Jan-2011 por Maggie Koerth-Baker en actionscience
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| Read the journalism that exposed MMR vaccine/autism fraud | | Last week, editors of the medical journal BMJ declared Andrew Wakefield's 1998 Lancet paper linking autism to the MMR vaccine to be not just incorrect, but actively fraudulent. The research that led many parents to avoid MMR vaccination for their children (and, subsequently, led to the resurgence of measles, mumps, and rubella outbreaks, including several deaths) turned out to include information [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 10-Jan-2011 por Maggie Koerth-Baker en actionscience
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| When Big Pharma creates a diagnosis—must-read interview | | You know what would be great for pharmaceutical profits? If there was a reason for women to need their own Viagra. Of course, there's no clear-cut, physical sexual dysfunction disorder prevalent among women the way erectile dysfunction haunts older men. But, when life hands you lemons, you can always make your own diagnostic tools and call them lemonade, anyway! Australian journalist Ray Moynihan [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 19-Oct-2010 por Maggie Koerth-Baker en actionscience
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| UK government hushed up internal analysis of anti-drug strategy to avoid ridicule | | Last December, the UK government declined to release a document about whether its anti-drug strategy was working under Freedom of Information legilsation - on the ludicrous basis that it might confuse the public. But it gets worse. Steve sez, "Last week the Home Office inadvertently released 19 pages of correspondence concerning the case to a BBC journalist in an unrelated request (they had delete [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 28-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionscience
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| Young people, risky behavior and the net: the facts | | danah boyd and Samantha Biegler have released a draft literature review on "Risky Behaviors and Online Safety," commissioned by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It looks at the latest papers on the risks presented to young people by using the Internet; if you've been reading the newspapers, the distance between the reality and what you've heard in the sensationalist accounts of ped [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 25-Jun-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionscience
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| Synthetic biotech: a monopolist's playground? | | In the wake of Craig Venter's announcement that he and his team had created the world's first synthetic lifeform, Jamie Boyle considers the legal implications of a synthetic biotech world in which the norm is that the fundamental units of creation are exclusively held by a few patent owners: In an article written for the journal PloS Biology in 2007, my colleague Arti Rai and I explored the likely [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 28-May-2010 por Cory Doctorow en actionscience
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| Nuevo lanzamiento de Dir in Grey UROBOROS | | Dir In Grey no paran todavía no han sacado su nuevo single ni su CD selección que les informábamos ya hace tiempo por aquí y ya están ya preparando su nuevo álbum que se llamara UROBOROS y que saldrá el 12 de noviembre. Aunque sabemos pocos detalles de este nuevo lanzamiento de Dir In Grey [...] [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 05-Aug-2008 por takichan en actionscience
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| CD de selección y nuevo single de dir in grey | | La banda de visual key formada en 1997 nos trae estos días dos noticias importantes. Una de ellas es que van a ser un CD de selección y que es un CD de selección, es un CD de varios artistas seleccionados por una banda. Este disco se componen de canciones compuestas por la banda cantadas [...] [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 21-Jul-2008 por takichan en actionscience
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