Militant progressives in academia are determined to fix a problem that does not exist - how to get more females in science. Despite there being no gender difference in math scores for the first time in history and more Ph.D.'s for females than men and more hiring for women in faculty positions than men, a subset of people lament it isn't enough.read...
read moreBecause this is a science site, we're going to discuss it when a taxpayer-funded agency is found to be squandering valuable dollars on junk and waste that instead could he used to fund actual transformative research. Unlike the rest of the science blogging on the Internet, we (okay, I - virtually no one here agrees with me) don't circle the wagons around every project just because it claims...
read moreResearchers from Cornell say that by using a bit of electromagnetics wizardry they can create a 'hole' in space and keep it hidden - spatial cloaking. Invisible time.We see things using light, of course, namely as light scatters on an object. Using materials with a negative index of refraction, experiments have been able to create an 'invisibility cloak' for objects, which is...
read moreThe National Science Foundation and various other government groups with more funding than knowledge of the public wastes billions of dollars on STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) outreach, using the strange mentality that smart kids who might otherwise become veterinarians or game designers need to become scientists and engineers or America will collapse.read...
read moreProgressive kooks in San Francisco want to ban Happy Meals but they can't have a beef with vegan burgers, right? Just down the road from 'Frisco, at Stanford, biochem professor (and founding co-director of PLoS - yayy, open access!) Pat Brown is trying to make vegan burgers that will appeal to humans and maybe keep McDonald's in business in the bay area.Brown wants to make a vegan...
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