Over the last year there has been increasing recognition that it isn't "the right" who are anti-science. The left has far more anti-science people; percentage-wise, there are more anti-vaccine people who vote Democrat than there are Republicans who deny evolution or global warming. Ditto for anti-GMO stances, people who believe in psychics and UFOs, etc. The list of kooky positions that...
read moreIt feels odd to write about Microsoft Office. I am not an expert – because I don’t use it. I use editors, they just don’t cost $200 or whatever MS Office costs. Science 2.0 has a great editor, thankyouverymuch. This site has a WordPress editor. An XP desktop machine I use for programming has OpenOffice, for when someone sends me a Word document. I use Google Documents and...
read moreLast year I wrote about somewhat silly claims that Wikipedia must be sexist because it had poor female representation. Wikipedia is an open, voluntary community, I argued, some people are just not going to do it. read...
read moreNew work at the John Innes Centre in Norwich is hoped to benefit African farmers who cannot afford fertilizer.Fertilizer is essential, it has made it possible to feed billions, but it brings pollution and farmers in poor countries who can't afford seed and lots of fertilizer might be able to afford seed that needs no chemicals to turn into food.
read moreThink too much of ol' Sol won't age you prematurely?Here's an unintentional science experiment on the effects of sun exposure. It's like a before and after picture, except it's the same face. A 69-year-old man showed a 25-year history of gradual, asymptomatic thickening and wrinkling of the skin on the left side of his face, the authors in NEJM write. The circumstances were about...
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