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Reading Diary: How to fake a moon landing landing: Exposing the myths of science denial by Darryl Cunningham [Confessions of a Science Librarian] 27 Aug 2013 | 05:07 pm
Darryl Cunningham’s How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial is a bit different from most of the graphic novels I’ve reviewed in this space. Most of the earlier books I’ve revi...
Here we go again: The vile tactic of blaming shaken baby syndrome on vaccines [Respectful Insolence] 27 Aug 2013 | 12:46 pm
About ten or twelve years ago, back when I was in essence, a newly minted skeptic and public supporter of science-based medicine, I was so naive. There I was, having just discovered the Usenet newsgro...
Messier Monday: The Top-Heavy Gumball Globular, M12 [Starts With A Bang] 27 Aug 2013 | 08:13 am
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” -Khalil Gibran It’s time again for another Messier Monday! The Messier Catalogue was the original comprehensi...
OMG Best Climate Change Policy Video Ever ROFL LOLx2!!!1! [Greg Laden's Blog] 27 Aug 2013 | 05:09 am
First, watch it: Then, go here to sign the petition!!!!! A while back a few of us were talking about naming storms and droughts after climate denialists. Maybe this petition will help make that happ...
Meet the Newborn Giant Panda Bear Cub!! [Life Lines] 27 Aug 2013 | 02:47 am
Image of panda bear cub at its first exam from the National Zoo. Exciting news from the Smithsonian National Zoological Park! Mei, a giant panda bear at the zoo has given birth to a cub weighing i...
Celebrating Role Models in Science & Engineering Achievement: Daniel Hale Williams [USA Science and Engineering Festival: The Blog] 27 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
Daniel Hale Williams- Surgeon and Medical Educator Medical textbooks in the early 1890s said that operating on near the human heart was too dangerous. But on a hot summer’s night in Chicago in 1893, ...
Study finds a helping hand is more likely to be a healthy hand [The Pump Handle] 27 Aug 2013 | 12:20 am
Helping others isn’t only the right thing to do, it’s the healthy thing to do. In a recent study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), researchers found th...
Black Holes: Live Firewalls [Dynamics of Cats] 27 Aug 2013 | 12:03 am
The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is currently holding a “Rapid Response Workshop” on Black Holes: Complementarity, Fuzz, or Fire?, August 19-30. Organizers: Raphael Bousso (UCB), Samir Mat...
How to Teach Physics to Your Thai Dog [Uncertain Principles] 26 Aug 2013 | 11:09 pm
The list of editions of my books in character sets I can’t read just got bigger: I got author copies of the Thai edition of How to Teach Physics to Your Dog. The cover is the “featured image” above (a...
Admissions and Hiring: Faculty Are Students in a Funhouse Mirror [Uncertain Principles] 26 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
In one of those Information Supercollider moments, two very different articles crossed in my social media feeds, and suddenly seemed to be related. The first was this New York Post piece by a college ...
