If you read this site, you know that there are few instances where having a supermodel doesn’t help. I have written some absolute crap and having a supermodel picture to help provide context (it’s called “framing” by insufferable progressive science blogger types) surely saved some outrageously bad articles. But it’s not foolproof. Researchers writing in [...]
read moreSnow height or rock height? Chinese and Indians disagree on even how to measure the height of the world's highest mountain, since if you have ever had one of those 'why can't they just talk to each other?' moments about actual serious geopolitical issues, you know it is never that simple.Mount Everest is in both countries and its official height 29,029 feet and both sides agree that...
read moreNothing says celebrating athletic perfection like a McDonald's hamburger.Actually, elite athletes likely can eat all the hamburgers they want but you get the idea - a McDonald's, nay the world's largest McDonald's, at the site dedicated to athletic excellence is pretty funny.But Brits are nothing if not funny. And so they get a 3,000-square-meter McDonald's restaurant, on two floors...
read moreIt's not easy to get a tenured professor to leave his job - unless he is caught dog-fighting or saying girls might be different than boys, there isn't a lot off-limits, especially at a progressive bastion like Harvard.But bad press is not always good press and Harvard evolutionary psychology Professor Marc D. Hauser has announced his resignation. A three-year investigation said he...
read morePartisans on each side will claim some vast conspiracy in the debt ceiling debate - Republicans are bought by corporations and hate poor people because they want to lower their taxes, Democrats are bought by unions and hate poor people because they want to give them stuff for free - but it may be simpler than that. Cooperation is in our nature but morality can undercut the tendency,...
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