The two-minus-one pregnancy
Chilling: Dr. Richard Berkowitz, a perinatologist at Columbia University Medical Center who was an early practitioner of pregnancy reduction, says: “The overwhelming majority of women carrying twins...
View ArticleMath can predict insurgent attacks, physicist says
Anyone ever watch Numbers? I think this physicist has: [Neil Johnson, a physicist at the University of Miami] and his research team gathered publicly available data on military fatalities in...
View ArticleWired: Our social nature. the surprising science of smiles
From Wired, an interview with Marianne LaFrance, an experimental psychologist at Yale University and author of Lip Service: Smiles in Life, Death, Trust, Lies, Work, Memory, Sex, and Politics:...
View ArticleMinutePhysics
MinutePhysics—check them out!Filed under: Education, Media, Physics, Science
View ArticleNatGeo: Teenage brains
Who knew? From National Geographic: . . . Such thinking carried into the late 20th century, when researchers developed brain-imaging technology that enabled them to see the teen brain in enough detail...
View ArticleMap-makers admit Greenland gaffe
An honest mistake or a politicization of cartography? IT APPEARED to provide incontrovertible proof that global warming was accelerating faster than even the most doom-laden scientists had predicted....
View ArticleThe politically-inspired food pyramid
Before there was “global warming” and “climate change,” there was the government’s food pyramid: Too bad there was little scientific evidence to back it up: During the same period that we cardiologists...
View ArticlePromised objectivity, Americans receive Planned Parenthood ideology
From HLI America, part of Human Life International, a report on how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) used information provided by the Women’s Preventive Services committee of the...
View ArticleThe universe is missing light. . .
From Popular Mechanics: Scientists explain that we are missing 80 percent of the light in the universe. Just writing that sentence felt weird. . . As one participating scientist points out, to miss the...
View ArticleElon Musk and Hyperloop
For all of the engineers out there: . . .Both for trip comfort and safety, it would be best to travel at high subsonic speeds for a 350 mile journey. For much longer journeys, such as LA to NY, it …...
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