Since the Akin rape comments story seems to have reached a fever pitch, let me just say that I think the man is politically tone-deaf and probably should leave the race for that reason alone. The battle for the Senate … Continue reading →
…that has such people in it.
Continue reading →[NOTE: I came across this post from 2006 the other day and thought it could bear a recycling.] When I was in junior high there was a large poster of the Periodic Table of the Elements that hung in the … Continue reading →
I had never heard of chemist Fritz Haber until a couple of days ago, when I watched a TV dramatization of his story that was so melodramatic that I thought it was surely an exaggeration. But surprisingly, when I looked … Continue reading →
Olympian Michael Phelps pees in the pool. And he says everybody does it, too. But the survey from the WSJ article indicates that everybody doesn’t—or at least, they don’t own up to it, because 37.7% of respondents say they never … Continue reading →
So was Lamark just a teeny weeny bit right, after all?
Continue reading →Can this really be true?: The research team behind the study, led by Herman Pontzer of Hunter College in New York City, along with David Raichlen of the University of Arizona and Brian M. Wood of Stanford measured daily energy … Continue reading →
Well, not exactly.
Continue reading →But it’s not an unpleasant smell.
Continue reading →Here’s some evidence that modern humans mated with Neanderthals, and that we carry remnants of the encounter in our genetic code. I’ve long had a fondness (of the platonic sort!) for Neanderthals. At least in my imagination; in real life … Continue reading →
From political science professor Jacqueline Stevens (via Volokh): It’s an open secret in my discipline: in terms of accurate political predictions (the field’s benchmark for what counts as science), my colleagues have failed spectacularly and wasted colossal amounts of time … Continue reading →
This article describes several theories which seek to explain why music is a human universal. All of them focus on group cohesion of some sort, and the fact that music seems to foster it, whether it be in work, play, … Continue reading →