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why health insurance and big data are a good fit 20 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
With the explosion in fitness trackers and mobile apps that want to help manage everything from weight loss to pregnancy, there’s already a small panic brewing as technology critics worry that insuran...
wait, you get your science news from where? 13 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
When an expansive article on GMOs became the lead story in Elle Magazine, it wasn’t exactly a shocker that the story got its science wrong and horribly abused quotes to create a controversy where one ...
the online freedom that was never there 8 Aug 2013 | 06:18 pm
Yes, I know, it’s been a while since my last post but life has a way of getting in the way of steady, regular blogging. And of course there’s still the work on Project X on the horizon which will affe...
why tech companies can’t prevent censorship 30 Jul 2013 | 01:56 am
Policy wonks, like most people, tend to think of IT as a magical black box which takes requests, does something, and makes their computers do what they want, or at least somewhat close to it. And so i...
why chemophobia is not the future of food 26 Jul 2013 | 06:27 am
While we’re talking about chemophobia, here’s another area where a selective focus on health isn’t helping in the big picture: food. The cover story for the current edition of The Atlantic is an expan...
you can’t compare sex partners when you only have one 23 Jul 2013 | 07:03 pm
When last we left Pat Fagan, he was aghast that premarital sex was legal and demanding that a country in which more than nine in ten adults had sex before marriage punish all the fornicating sinners l...
the t-rex was a predator and we have proof 23 Jul 2013 | 02:37 am
Last time we tackled the question of whether the mighty T-Rex was a predator or a scavenger, the math seemed to point to a mix at the very least. There was no way a creature that large had enough to e...
why trying to sweat out your toxins is a bad idea 19 Jul 2013 | 01:47 am
The city where I live, the college town/aspiring big city of Columbus, OH, the weather isn’t really known for being nice. And we’ll tell you how much the weather sucks when you ask what it’s like to l...
how would you fight pacific rim’s giant monsters in the real world? 16 Jul 2013 | 06:42 pm
Yes, Pacific Rim is a loud popcorn movie best viewed with your brain operating at half capacity, just enjoying the show without asking any questions. And that’s exactly what makes it fun. This may sho...
yes, the universe can be explained by the spinning of atoms. get over it. 15 Jul 2013 | 06:22 pm
If you recall the last post about those who mew that science just cheapens the world around us with its math and experiments, you may remember the book used as a prime example of these attitudes, Curt...
