Humans Are Weird
By Jesse Singal - Nov 21st, 2008 at 1:40 pmThe Economist has a fascinating article on some experiments that appear to bolster the “broken windows” theory of crime:
A PLACE that is covered in…
Posts Tagged ‘science’
RFK Jr. Would Make a Terrible Head of the EPA
By Nick Sifuentes - Nov 14th, 2008 at 4:55 pmRumors are swirling that the Obama transition team may be eyeing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to head up the Environmental Protection Agency. Despite his left-leaning…
Strangled By Corn
By Jesse Singal - Nov 13th, 2008 at 6:02 pmEffect Measure has an interesting post highlighting a study that used stable isotope analysis (I totally know what this means but, um, don’t want to…
Build Your Own Solar System!
By Jesse Singal - Nov 13th, 2008 at 4:10 pmVia reddit, this solar system simulator is strangely addictive to play around with, as is anything that mixes nerdiness with godlike powers (see Sims, The).…
A Smart Critique of Religulous
By Jesse Singal - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 4:52 pmI saw and enjoyed Bill Maher’s Religulous, but it is far from a scholarly work of evenhanded inquiry. Seed has a good article up explaining…
Dawkins is Off the Deep End
By Jesse Singal - Oct 30th, 2008 at 3:33 pmIn my opinion Jamelle was too gentle with Richard Dawkins, who has decided that he wants to investigate whether books with magical elements like the…
First God, Then Harry Potter
By Jamelle Bouie - Oct 30th, 2008 at 11:08 amRichard Dawkins is none too pleased with the Harry Potter series:
The prominent atheist is stepping down from his post at Oxford University to write…
The Trans Gene
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 28th, 2008 at 11:54 amResearchers have found that genetics may be a partial cause of male-to-female transsexualism:
DNA analysis from 112 male-to-female transsexual volunteers showed they were more likely…
A Bit More on Alan Turing
By Jesse Singal - Oct 15th, 2008 at 12:13 pmFollowing up on Dylan’s post on legendary computer scientist Alan Turing’s famous Turing Test, the circumstances surrounding Turing’s death are worth pointing out, especially given…
Rise of the Machines
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 15th, 2008 at 10:45 amEver since it was first formulated in 1950, the Turing Test has been the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence research. Devised by Alan Turing in…
More How to Increase Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
By Kay Steiger - Oct 6th, 2008 at 12:58 pmToday there’s an op-ed in Inside Higher Ed calling for greater diversity in the fields once called vital to national security by President Bush: science,…
Almost Time to Smash Some Particles
By Jesse Singal - Sep 10th, 2008 at 12:15 pmSo the Large Hadron Collider switched on today and we’re still here. But that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods yet! I wrongly wrote…
Some Say the World Will End in Fire, Some Say it Will Be Eaten by a Particle Accelerator
By Jesse Singal - Sep 3rd, 2008 at 3:03 pmI know it’s less exciting than the Sarah Palin scandals shooting out of Alaska at a rate of six per second, but it’s worth pointing…
We Welcome Our New Elephant Overlords
By L. Russell Allen - Sep 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pmHere’s a snippet from an article that appeared in the October 18, 2006 issue of The Washington Post .
In Japan, the report found, 14…
The Weird Extremism of Sarah Palin
By Matt Zeitlin - Sep 1st, 2008 at 9:16 amAlthough she vetoed a bill that would deny benefits to gay couples and even admitted to smoking pot when it was legal in Alaska, Sarah…
