After a 19-year wait…
…a baby is born. The wait, by the way, was the baby’s.
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Islam, algebra, Nobel prizes, and our PC sensibility
Richard Dawkins has created a bit of a stir by tweeting: All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. And when the usual uproar ensued, and someone … Continue reading →
Social science research: read the fine print
Highlighted at Instapundit: Girls commit dating violence as often as boys, studies show. “More girls ”“ 43 percent ”“ than boys ”“ 28 percent ”“ reported committing an act of physical dating violence, said researchers who are presenting their findings … Continue reading →
It’s all…
…in how you look at it: That’s lil’ ole earth, right above the arrow. Saturn and its rings are at the top-left and top of the photo.
Continue reading →But here’s my question…
Why would a postmenopausal woman want to become pregnant with a donor egg or donor embryo?
Continue reading →Monkeys first came to the Americas on vegetation rafts
Or on spaceships. No, actually it was vegetation rafts. I kid you not: Primates came to the New World (meaning North and South America) from, we think, Africa. As improbable as it sounds, scientists think early primates crossed the Atlantic … Continue reading →
Ever hear of methane hydrate?
You will: Fracking has been attacked as an environmental menace to underground water supplies, and may eventually be greatly restricted. But it has also unleashed so much petroleum in North America that the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based consortium of … Continue reading →
Myths about electric cars
Chris Paine is pretty sanguine about the future of electric cars. In this WaPo article he lists 5 myths about them and explains why using them is easier and the outlook is better than people think. I don’t have the … Continue reading →
To be slim, you need to change your—gut microbiota?
This may seem like science fiction stuff, but it may be true nonetheless: Not only are the “gut microbiota” different in lean people and obese people, but the mix of microbes changes after an obese patient undergoes gastric bypass and … Continue reading →
Want to have sex in outer space?
It’s not been tops on my list, either. And what’s more, this article says it can be hazardous to your health. Although I must say I haven’t a clue what dangers they’re actually talking about. Can anyone decipher this?: …[E]xperiments … Continue reading →
Cartoons and me
When I was nine or ten years old I was given an individual IQ test by a family friend who was getting her PhD in child psychology, and having to administer the test to a certain number of children was … Continue reading →
John Hinderaker: fun with gun and homicide statistics
John Hinderaker points out how the latest study of the relation between gun control laws and homicide rates uses the statistics therein to make a certain policy point, and how they could just as easily be used to refute that … Continue reading →