Aimee Copeland, a victim of flesh eating bacteria (necrotizing fasciitis) whose hands had to be amputated last year, has received two state-of-the-art bionic hands from i-limbs.  Looks like they took a few cues from the Terminator, which makes them even more awesome, if that's possible.   <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wiuK6mjDRaw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>   […]

I love raging scientific controversies. I am not talking about vaccines and autism, global warming, evolution, or homeopathy – these are not actual scientific controversies. They are political controversies intruding onto science. I prefer nerdy scientific debates that have insignificant political implications. I like to see two groups of scientists arguing about the evidence over [...]

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  Photo Credit WHO   #7311   We’ve a new update on the novel coronavirus this morning from the World Health Organization that adds the latest fatality from the Al-Qaseem region of Saudi Arabia. This involves a  63 year old male `non-Saudi’, and is not linked to the larger Al-Ahsa outbreak we’ve been following for the past couple of weeks.     Of note, although we’ve expected it to happen from some time (see The Name Game), this is first […]

Linguistics of adolescent phonetics If you don’t get it, then I just have one thing to say and it’s: “A voiced alveolar stop and breathy-voiced low-back unrounded vowel, with advanced tongue root” – duuuuh… (That latter words is described by James Harbeck in his accompanying article as aiming to sound as stupid as possible. Of [...]Translating teenage grunts is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author of Deceived Wisdom Subscribe to our Email […]