Can Video Games Make You Smarter?
And so it begins: Breast Cancer Awareness Month brings out the cancer quacks
Posted by Orac As I mentioned yesterday, here it’s that time of year again: October. Breast Cancer Awareness Month. While the topic of my post then was how antivaccine activists have tried to glom on to the attention that Breast Cancer Awareness Month gets in order to create their fake “awareness month” known as “Vaccine […]
How stupid are you? You have no idea!
Posted by Greg Laden http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2014/09/29/how-stupid-are-you-you-have-no-idea/
Did I ever tell you how exciting snails are?
Posted by William M. Connolley Did I ever tell you how exciting snails are? No, wait, don’t go away… Oh well. Now the rest of you have settled down, I’ll continue. My pic, incidentally, shows some Sphacterian snails I met in Greece this summer, which exhibited this odd clustering behaviour I’ve not seen before. But […]
Darwin, sexist asshat
Posted by PZ Myers That same bozo who sent me the Hitler quote sent me another image in reply: Fair enough. Darwin got a lot of things wrong. I’m actually going to be lecturing my intro biology students on where Darwin screwed up in a few weeks, focusing mainly on his bad genetics, but […]
Why big animals do not have higher cancer risks
Posted by Dr. Dolittle I read an interesting article in Scientific American that discussed the so-called Peto’s Paradox. Dr. Richard Peto (University of Oxford) came up with the idea that if every cell has an equal probability of becoming cancerous, then larger animals would be predicted to develop cancer at higher rates than smaller animals. […]
Why Do We Have More Boys Than Girls?
Más allá del aula y del tiempo
Jorge Pedraza Salinas Es difícil poder establecer donde termina la influencia de un maestro. Una cosa si es posible decir. Hay educadores que aunque ya no están físicamente entre nosotros, sus enseñanzas y su ejemplo perduran a través del tiempo. Tal es el caso de los profesores Federico Berrueto Ramón y Jesús Alfonso Arreola Pérez, […]
Why Do Paper Cuts Hurt So Much? – Instant Egghead #25
Estudiantes logran respuesta inmediata de Gobernación
Héctor Rojas / Educación Futura “Hagamos que esta movilización que ustedes han realizado, tenga como nunca en la historia de este país, una respuesta inmediata a favor de todos ustedes”, enfatizó Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, secretario de Gobernación, a los miles de estudiantes reunidos en Bucareli, quienes declinaron la invitación a sentarse a “resolver” el conflicto […]
Your Brain, Upgraded: Watch ‘Cells To Silicon’
By: World Science Festival Staff At present, our brains are mostly dependent on all the stuff below the neck to turn thought into action. But advances in neuroscience are making it easier than ever to hook machines up to minds. See neuroscientists John Donoghue and Sheila Nirenberg, computer scientist Michel Maharbiz, and psychologist Gary Marcus […]
¿Ciencia en la pintura?
Claudia Fernández Limón / Horno 3 www.horno3.org La pintura es un material que se aplica en forma líquida y se seca en un complejo proceso químico, es más que un color. Se utiliza para diversos fines como decoración, protección, identificación y limpieza. ¿De qué están hechas? La mayoría de las pinturas están hechas de […]
