The Olympics are coming to a close and now the British get to reflect on what, if anything, has changed in the world due to a gaming event designed to make the world a smaller and better place. read...
read moreSelf-righteousness is a form of addiction? Bags of urine in interstellar commerce? An autism plague?Astrophysicist, futurist and author David Brin gets interviewed in the Wired Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast and you can read a transcript here.He goes after George Lucas, the kind of succinct evisceration we all imagine in our minds but lack the clarity to pull off, and clobbers...
read moreThere is a subsection of the science community that loves Rachel Maddow; she is literate and she has the right politics. But most of science is doing a facepalm because her slippery slope reasoning about 'fracking', if applied to any field of science, would call a halt to research all over the country.
read moreWriting on Scientific American blogs, Maria Konnikova makes a point numerous scientists have made, yet one that makes science journalists and many psychologists bristle with irritation.
read moreThe US Food and Drug Administration says requiring special labels for foods that contain ingredients from genetically modified crops would be "inherently misleading" to consumers - that is exactly what proponents of GM food labeling are hoping for. People inherently side with the precautionary principle and there is no requirement that ballot initiatives be written clearly or well; the assumption...
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