Saturday, May 26, 2012

Weekend Post - Are you in control?

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Here’s a test for you. With the index finger of the hand you write with, touch either your left ear or your right ear. It’s entirely up to y...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Weekend Post - Bad ideas stick around. Like astrology.

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I find it amazing how certain ideas stick around, way beyond the end of their natural lifetimes. There are still people who believe in witch...
Saturday, May 05, 2012

Weekend Post - Two types of thinking?

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It’s been said that there are two types of people: those that divide humanity into two types and those that don’t. Crudely dividing humani...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Things we don't understand. Yet.

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One of the most powerful words in the scientific vocabulary is “yet”. As in “We don’t know the answer to that question. Yet.” It’s one of ...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Weekend Post - The science and pseudoscience of weight-loss

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In all the areas of health science you’ll undoubtedly find the largest quantities of claptrap, hogwash and nonsense in the marketing of weig...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Weekend Post - Straight or gay? Why?

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I was asked recently, as someone who firstly has an interest in science, but also had a brief academic background in psychology, why some pe...
Sunday, April 08, 2012

Weekend Post. We're not alone

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We’re not alone No, I don’t mean that aliens have been found, either here on Earth or anywhere else. Despite what many of the lunatics on ...
Monday, April 02, 2012

I get a quantum comment

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Following Saturday's Weekend Post Science article on " Quantum claptrap ", I received an email. It went like this: "...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Quantum claptrap

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There are certain words that whenever you hear them you should expect to be exposed to nonsense. They include “lifestyle”, “authentic” and “...
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Weekend Post - Einstein seems to have been right all along

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I don’t know whether to be pleased or disappointed. It looks like Einstein’s theories are still safe. His suggestion that the speed of light...
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Weekend Post - You can't trust your eyes. Or your brain.

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You can’t trust your eyes. In fact you can’t trust any of your senses. Or even your brain. One of the most interesting areas of scientif...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

Weekend Post - How good is your science and maths knowledge?

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How good is your science and maths knowledge? I think the answer is simple. It’s not good enough. There’s an online science knowledge quiz...
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Sunday, March 04, 2012

Weekend Post - The threat from pseudoscience

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The threat from pseudoscience isn’t just to our bank balance. It also threatens our health. The biggest pseudoscientific health threat is ...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Weekend Post - Pseudoscience

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Perhaps the single biggest threat to science and the progress and benefits it offers is it’s illegitimate cousin, pseudoscience. I think it ...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Weekend Post - Why do zebras have stripes?

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Why do zebras have stripes? New research suggests it might be more complicated than you think. While it would be nice to think that zebras...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Weekend Post: Good and bad news about malaria.

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There’s good news and there’s bad news about malaria. The bad news is that it’s possible we’ve ben grossly underestimating the number of d...
Saturday, February 04, 2012

Weekend Post - You are what you eat

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You are what you eat. Literally. Every atom of your body has come from things you have eaten or your mother ate while she was carrying you. ...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Weekend Post - How well do you know your science?

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How well do you think you know basic science? Do you think you can answer the sort of questions your kids will ask you about the world? A ...