Good evening…. here are your leftover goodies for tonight. See you tomorrow, bright and weird. More on Paul Offit’s new campaign against alternative med treatments. Opinion: Alternative healing or quackery? – CNN.com. How Darwin helped invent the idea of aliens. Ben Radford writes about the psychic lawsuit decision. Psychic Ordered to Pay $7 Million for…

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(Yes, folks, it’s a caffeine molecule.  Take note as this is one of the few chemistry-centric articles I will ever post.) In the past few months, I started re-exploring my interest in tea.  It’s been a lot of fun trying different varieties of teas and learning what things I like (malty) and what I don’t […]

My previous post looked at a problem that requires repeatedly finding the first digit of kn where k is a single digit but n may be on the order of millions or billions. The most direct approach would be to…Read more ›

Have you ever felt like you behave differently depending on your cultural surroundings? As an immigrant, I know I start mimicking others’ accents and body language once I’m out of my heritage culture. This type of environment-induced chameleon-like morphing is called – quite aptly – “frame switching” in psychology. Scientists don’t really know if it […]