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Business? Warning? Cry for Help?

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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.

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Poor Country

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Enter Do Not Enter

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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

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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…”

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Recursive Kitty

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Shocking: Popular Music Mentions Booze, Sex

In a surprising new development, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh report that the modern “rock” and “rap” music popular with adolescents makes repeated references to alcohol, sex, and drugs. As this important new paper concludes: One in five songs … Continue reading

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The weather service is warning of “poor drainage flooding.” Isn’t all flooding due to poor drainage?

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XKCD Goes Viral

Today’s xkcd explains just how awesome – and insane – viral gene therapy vectors are:

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