Here’s a study that purports to indicate that people get more religious over time: Belief in God is highest among older people and increases with age, perhaps due to the growing realization that death is coming closer, University of Chicago … Continue reading →
There was a lot of discussion in this thread yesterday about liberals being right-brained and conservatives left-brained, and/or liberals “feeling” and conservatives “thinking.” I think that’s an oversimplification. Sorry, but I know lots of very logical and rational liberals, very … Continue reading →
New York magazine’s Sasha Issenberg has a weak article on a topic that interests me, the difference between liberals and conservatives, and whether it’s hard-wired. In it, he (and some of the researchers he quotes) not only displays the typical … Continue reading →
This seems an odd and unexpected finding: Children born to obese or very overweight mothers are at higher risk of having autism or developmental delays, new research suggests. The study of more than 1,000 children found that the offspring of … Continue reading →
Well, maybe not so much.
Continue reading →Interesting. Now let’s see how this gets integrated into the narrative: A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that contrary to the ”˜consensus’, the ”˜Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 … Continue reading →
or fake? This is why it’s probably fake. More about the controversy here. And here’s a history of humankind’s attempts to build an ornithopter, which is what this purported invention would be called: a man-powered flying machine that is not … Continue reading →
One by one they’re trying to take away our gustatory pleasures. Salt. Sugar. Fat. Red meat—not just a lot of red meat, but any amount of red meat. According to this Harvard study, any red meat at all increases the … Continue reading →
Who is? We are.
Continue reading →What does Heartlandgate prove about AGW? Absolutely nothing. But it does say something about what AGW’s more fanatical proponents are prepared to do in furthering the cause—at least, what one of them, Dr. Peter Gleick, a noted freshwater scientist and … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →A lot of people can’t master physics even in high school. Although I got a good grade in it I never felt that it was my strong suit, and I struggled more than I was used to with a lot … Continue reading →