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This is awesome. Literally.

The New Neo Posted on December 8, 2008 by neoDecember 8, 2008

The ten most amazing Hubble photos—sent by a friend, and surpassingly beautiful. Here’s my favorite, perhaps because of its simplicity. But please look at them all; you’ll be glad you did. They might even put you in a holiday mood, … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | 19 Replies

Neanderthals and baseball

The New Neo Posted on September 22, 2008 by neoOctober 2, 2008

I’ve long had a soft spot in my heart for Neanderthals. The ancient ones, that is, those early humans who’ve gotten a bad rap as powerful heavy-browed vulgarians, but about whose culture we really know very little, and who seem … Continue reading →

Posted in Baseball and sports, Science | 80 Replies

Slim Pickens for energy alternatives?

The New Neo Posted on July 14, 2008 by neoJuly 23, 2008

You’ve probably heard the radio ads. T. Boone Pickens, the man with the thickest Oklahoma/Texas accent any side of the Pecos, has a plan to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Pickens’ plan

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Posted in Science | 136 Replies

The multitudinous world inside your elbow

The New Neo Posted on May 27, 2008 by neoJune 2, 2008

One of the more formative experiences of my life was reading Theodor Rosebury’s book Life On Man back when it first came out in 1969. It revealed that our efforts to sanitize the world and rid it of those seemingly … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, Science | 6 Replies

Now, here’s a novel idea for legislators: how about some domestic oil development?

The New Neo Posted on May 19, 2008 by neoMay 22, 2008

Last week a proposal to lift the moratorium on shale oil extraction was narrowly defeated in a Senate committee. The vote was along strictly party lines, Republicans for lifting the ban and Democrats against. What a surprise. All of this … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Science | 25 Replies

Mind and matter: psychological brain changes

The New Neo Posted on May 9, 2008 by neoMay 22, 2008

A Canadian study reports that brain changes involving ribosomal DNA have been detected on autopsy in victims of childhood abuse who ended up committing suicide. This finding somewhat complements animal studies showing that early neglect changes the dendrites of rats. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | 21 Replies

Harry Harlow and his monkeys: being cruel in order to be kind?

The New Neo Posted on May 9, 2008 by neoJuly 9, 2009

While researching my recent series on questioning authority, I got the idea to write a post about the seminal Milgram experiments on obedience to authority. When I was a psych major back in college, part of our learning experience involved—as … Continue reading →

Posted in Nature, Science | 19 Replies

The demon-haunted world (Part II: autism)

The New Neo Posted on March 26, 2008 by neoNovember 27, 2011

[Part I.] Science is certainly far from infallible. That’s especially true of studies related to human beings, on whom any sort of research is notoriously difficult to perform and evaluate. The variables are myriad and uncontrollable, and ethics ordinarily prevents … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, Science | 55 Replies

Vaccinations and the demon-haunted world

The New Neo Posted on March 21, 2008 by neoMarch 26, 2008

[This is the first part of two.] So this is what it’s come to. Our largely successful struggle to eradicate the once-common infectious diseases of childhood through the mechanism of vaccines has been so successful that many parents voluntarily eschew … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, Science | 92 Replies

Environmentalists have an Emily Litella moment

The New Neo Posted on March 20, 2008 by neoMarch 22, 2008

First we had paper grocery bags. I liked them, not the least because they were versatile. Good for wrapping packages for mailing and, long ago, excellent as textbook covers. But then the news came that they were environmentally wasteful. Too … Continue reading →

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The Tuskegee experiment and truth

The New Neo Posted on March 19, 2008 by neoNovember 29, 2012

In the aftermath of the Jeremiah Wright controversy, I keep reading that his assertion that the US government “lied about inventing the AIDS virus as a means of genocide against people of color” is understandable because, after all, the government … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, Race and racism, Science | 17 Replies

It’s not nice to change Mother Nature

The New Neo Posted on January 11, 2008 by neoJuly 9, 2009

It seems that a well-intentioned attempt to protect a certain kind of African acacia tree from the large beasts who would munch on it has had the opposite effect. In a complex interaction of insect, plant, and animal, the trees … Continue reading →

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