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Jonah Lehrer: Accept Defeat - The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
Experiments rarely tell us what we expect. That's the dirty secret of science.
2010-01-17 to bestof, experiment, neuroscience, psychology, science, scientist by soobrosa
Jerome Groopman: The Colic Conundrum
The crying that doctors can’t stop.
2010-01-12 to bestof, childrearing, children, colic, crying, medicine, parenting, science by soobrosa
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert: An open letter to Steve Levitt
May I suggest that if you should happen to need some friendly help next time you take on the topic of climate change, or would like to have a chat about why aerosol geoengineering might not be a cure-all, or just need a critical but informed opponent to b
2010-01-02 to bestof, books, climate, climate change, global warming, science by soobrosa
Janet Maslin: A Quest for Knowledge Inspired by a Devastating Loss
One in three of us will develop cancer in our lifetimes.
2010-01-02 to books, cancer, history, medicine, science, story by soobrosa
Michael Chorost: Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again
Treating Parkinson’s and other brain diseases could be just the beginning. Optogenetics has amazing potential, not just for sending information into the brain but also for extracting it.
2009-12-11 to bestof, brain, communication, genetics, medicine, mind, nerves, science by soobrosa
Amy Wallace: An Epidemic of Fear - How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All
The result is that science must somehow prove a negative — that vaccines don’t cause autism — which is not how science typically works.
2009-11-21 to autism, bestof, medicine, science, statistics, vaccination, vaccines by soobrosa
Dennis Overbuy: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider b
2009-10-26 to bestof, funnies, god, oddities, physics, science, time travel by soobrosa
Improving scientific publishing
Rejecta Mathematica, an open-source academic journal that recently went online. As its name suggests, the new journal publishes only papers that have been previously submitted to, and rejected.
2009-08-05 to economist, publishing, science by poppa_large
Noah Shachtman: Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere, Fans Conspiracy Flames
"It's as close to a religious experience as you're ever going to get."
2009-07-25 to bestof, physics, radio, science, warfare by soobrosa
Erin Biba: Amber Ale - Brewing Beer from 45-Million-Year-Old Yeast
This was the closest humanity had come to the discovery imagined in Jurassic Park.
2009-07-25 to bestof, biology, cloning, drink, genetics, history, science by soobrosa

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