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All around the world, indigenous cultures hold knowledge of inestimable value for understanding how to relate to the natural world. Jon Waterhouse has a plan for linking them all together.
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From The Wall Street Journal: Jim Brown knew he was in trouble before his mother finished asking the question. "Am I a better cook than your wife?" she asked, calmly stirring a pot on the stove in her kitchen. With...
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From Nature: Late in the morning on 20 February, more than 200 people packed an auditorium at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. The purpose of the event, according to its organizers, was to explain why a...
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Por Martín Bonfil Olivera
Dirección General de Divulgación de la Ciencia, UNAM
Publicado en Milenio Diario, 22 de mayo de 2013
En una democracia, la opinión del pueblo es soberana. Aunque no siempre las decisiones que se toman colectivamente son las mejores, se asume que muchas cabezas piensan mejor que una, y que llegan a las conclusiones, si no más sabias, sí más justas.
Los jurados en las cortes estadounidenses se basan en el mismo principio: la mayoría decide mejor […]
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Journal evaluating possible image duplication
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Crushing Cars With a Giant Robot Hand
Whoops. Someone put Anthony in control of a 30-foot tall robot hand with the ability to lift and crush 2000 pounds.
The Hand of Man is controlled with a glove that sends commands to the hydraulic arm and fingers. Christian Ristow tells us how he built it while Anthony slowly loses himself to the evil potential of such a machine.
via DNews Channel.
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Pro and Con Images from Clean Water Portland (left) and Healthy Kids Healthy Portland (right) So when is Portlandia going to do a skit about this? Residents of Portland, Oregon, voted down, yet again, an effort to add fluoride to their tap water. With 80 percent of the expected ballots counted, Mayor Charlie Hales "conceded defeat," the Associated Press reported. Portland is the largest U.S. city not to have added fluoride in the water, nor any plans to add it, the Associated Press reported.
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Five elements at the heart of the periodic table will never look the same again, following an update to their atomic weights
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She arrives at the National Zoo today from Baton Rogue
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Public health measure goes down amid vague concerns about safety and purity.
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Parental Financial Help: More Is More or More Is Less?
Over the past several decades, colleges and universities have responded to deep cuts in external funding by increasing tuition. The costs increasingly fall on the shoulders of students (and in many cases, their parents), who often make difficult financial decisions to attend college.
A new study from UC Merced asks: do students with parental financial support do better academically in college?
The answer turns out to be complex, with
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Senate vote puts an end—for now—to national debate over disputed injections
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Recently, we’ve seen some buzz about Dolby Atmos, a relatively new movie theater sound technology that gives the illusion that there are an infinite number of audio speakers and channels surrounding the audience. It’s hard to believe we didn’t even have wide-spread Dolby Stereo in movies until Star Wars, and if theaters wanted to play Lucas’s space opera, they had to redo their sound system, or Fox wouldn’t give them the film reels.Several years prior to Dolby Stereo, studios also
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You can’t! There’s a fungus among us—a hundred different species in fact—and nearly all take up residence on our feet, according to a study that appears in the journal Nature this week. Only a few fungi species were found on other body parts known to house fungi—such as behind the ears and on palms—according to…
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This is the question everyone eventually asks themselves. The answer is no. They live all over your body in the follicles of your hair. But, the situation is much more complicated than that, and in fact there is a lot we don’t know about these mites. But, there is a scientist who may be willing…
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Three thousand people explored the Louisiana swamps during BioBlitz last weekend, but an exhibit in town reveals the deep roots of the naturalist tradition in New Orleans.
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Despite a male's best efforts to impress, female strawberry poison frogs simply chose the closest mate
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Triton on the Tarmac, May 21, 2013 U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman by Chad Slattery The long-range maritime drone will give the U.S. unprecedented surveillance of the world's oceans. For the U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman, it's shaping up to be a banner year in unmanned flight. While the carrier-based autonomous X-47B continues to hit milestones aboard the USS George H.W. Bush somewhere off the East Coast, out west in Palmdale, Calif., today the Navy flew its MQ-4C Triton maritime
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This week’s auctions feature three incredible photographs created just for SkepchickCon by Gigi Chickee, from Mad Art Lab. She has signed and framed her “Winged Shape-shifter,” “GMO,” and “UFO,” and donated them to help us raise money for travel costs for the con. (See GiGi’s post about these photographs here and about two of the other photographs she created for the con here.) Up for auction: “Winged Shape-shifter” […]
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An infant's collapsing airway now has a device holding it open; as his tissue strengthens, the splint will be absorbed into his body
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Telepathic Rats and a Red-lored Amazon: SciShow Talk Show #10
via scishow:
Emily Graslie of The Brain Scoop is back again to stump Hank and to tell us about some fascinating new research in the field of rat telepathy (NO JOKE). Then Jessi from Animal Wonders shares Zoe the Red-lored Amazon parrot.—Want more Emily? Check out The Brain Scoop! http://www.youtube.com/thebrainscoopLearn more about Zoe! http://www.animalwonders.org/zoe.htmlWant more animals? Check out Animal Wonders Inc. at
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By Brett Garling, Mission Blue In a fantastic event last night at the Seattle Aquarium, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle and Greenpeace’s Phil Radford announced the Bering Sea Canyons as the official 19th Hope Spot. The event attracted a large turnout and impassioned speeches in defense of the new Hope Spot. Moreover, a bonafide airship…
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By guest blogger Doug Calhoun The Patents Bill has had a tortuous ride through Parliament – to say the least. Introduced in 2008, it was reviewed by a select committee in 2009 and reported back in March 2010. In September … Continue reading →
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Bladder to gut might be bacterial two-way street. by Jeffrey M. Perkel [...]The post What causes recurrent UTIs? appeared first on DoubleXScience.
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MRSA CDC Antibacterial clays can kill antibiotic-resistant E. coli and MRSA, researchers found. The colloquial medical advice "rub some dirt in it" appears to have some merit. Researchers at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have been experimenting with different clays, and it appears in research presented in the journal PLoS ONE that they've come across a family of antibacterial clays capable of killing pathogens ranging from E. coli to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus,
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I discuss the myths about why our fingers go “pruney” in the bath or swimming pool in my book Deceived Wisdom, the truth seems to lie in the work of Mark Changizi. In this cartoon, we see the explanation and get to hear his theory in his own words. Deceived wisdom about pruney fingers is [...]Deceived wisdom about pruney fingers is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author of Deceived Wisdom
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A Florida man found and killed a 18.8-foot Burmese python, which beats out the previous record-holding snake by a foot.
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Sick Science! #144 - Salt Water Density Straw
Density can be a difficult scientific property to grasp, that’s why we like making it colorful, fun, and (most importantly) simple! The Salt Water Density Straw is the epitome of kitchen science. You’ll use materials are right in your house, and with just a bit of salt, you’ll create a colorful experience that will have young scientists understanding density in moments.
Click here to get the secret:
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Today’s Guest Post is from Dena Roth about NECSS 2013 and the importance of safe spaces for underrepresented groups within the skeptic/secular community. It’s important to have empathy for another’s experience, especially when you don’t regularly experience being the “other” in the room (with regards to age, gender, color, etc.) and equally important to give them the space so that they feel like their needs are being addressed. […]
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Yes, your head is supposed to hurt
