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Poo and Shit, Revisited
Correspondent Bob has provided an interesting update on some research I did on relative publication rates back in 2010: Just as a follow up to your Poo vs Shit analysis, a PubMed search today (11 April 2013) reveals that Shit … Continue reading
It’s 2012.12.22: Time For a New Doomsdate
It’s about 30 minutes after the Winter Solstice now, which means the ancient Mayan calendar has officially ticked over to a new year, and thousands of doomsayers are looking a bit foolish right about now. If you’re one of them, … Continue reading
Making Your Experiments Easier to Digest
One of the great things about being a science journalist is being among the first to hear about technologies that are cool, useful, and/or downright weird. Today, for example, I learned that the world’s leading manufacturer of artificial laboratory stomachs … Continue reading
TWiV Beats Placebo!
This is a screenshot from the iTunes store today (in Podcasts > Science and Medicine > Medicine): So our year-in-review episode is five places better than placebo. Be sure to take it weekly from now on.
Who’s More Productive? No, How.
There’s a common belief that science shouldn’t try to answer “why” questions. Instead, it should focus on what it’s good at: answering “how” questions. I wondered whether that was really true, so I compared the relative productivity of Who, What, … Continue reading
I doubt I will ever craft a sentence that starts as intriguingly as the one midway through this article: “If you decide to administer first aid using a chain saw…”
2011.11.14
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