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Science of Sex Appeal Videos

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Science Saturday: Nuclear Energy, Melting Ice Caps, And Human Adaptation

I was on Bloggingheads.tv Science Saturday this week, talking with Jessa Gamble, a science journalist and the author of Siesta and the Midnight Sun, a book about how culture and biology effect the way we experience time.

Science Saturday: Nuclear energy, melting ice caps, and human adaptation

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Faculty Opening At Stanford U., Dept. Of Mgmt Science And Engineering, Stanford, Ca

at the frontiers of Management Science & Engineering, broadly defined, including engineering and the mathematical, medical, physical, and social sciences.

Faculty Opening at Stanford U., Dept. of Mgmt Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA

Backlink: http://www.kdnuggets.com/academic/11/08-18-stanford-management-science-engineering-faculty.html

Our Social Nature: The Surprising Science Of Smiles

All hail the powerful smile. The right smile, at the right time, wins friends and calms enemies. The smile held for too long, not long enough, flashed too intensively or too dimly, arouses suspicion, fear or anger.

Our Social Nature: The Surprising Science of Smiles

Backlink: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/science-behind-smiles/

What If Medical Science Cured All Diseases?

It's one of those things that seems too good too be true, but would a world full of cures be radically different from the one we know?

What if medical science cured all diseases?

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SocialFlow Tries to Crack Science of Twitter

That's exactly what SocialFlow hopes to prove. The New York-based startup, a sister company of Bit.ly and Chartbeat under Betaworks, claims to have cracked the puzzle of real-time conversation, and boasts that it can "take the guesswork out of what to say and when to say it on Twitter, Facebook and Google."

SocialFlow Tries to Crack Science of Twitter

Backlink: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2011/01/social-flow-science-of-twitter.html

Ben Goldacre: bad science kills

Here's Ben "Bad Science" Goldacre presenting on how non-evidence-based medicine (that is, woo), can actually, no fooling, kill you and thousands of your friends.

Ben's book, oddly enough titled Bad Science, is great as well, and I highly recommend it. There's a chapter he had to take out due to litigation by a guy named Mathias Rath, who says vitamins can cure AIDS. Yes, you read that correctly. Ben posted that chapter on his website, and it may be one of the most important things ever written in the area of critical thinking. Lack of proper treatment for AIDS kills hundreds of thousands of people in Africa alone. Hundreds of thousands.

When people like Ben win, lives are saved. The more people who know about him, the better. He's a true hero of skepticism.

Some bad science can make you laugh, and some kills

 

• Bad Science comes to the USA: Ben Goldacre's tremendous woo ...
• Woo-fighting scientist takes the funny high-road when libeled by ...
• Pseudoscience's "Awful Poo Lady" can't flush twitterings - Boing Boing
• The Doctor Will Sue You Now: the missing chapter of Ben Goldacre's ...
• Bad Science versus the piracy scare story Boing Boing

Ben Goldacre: bad science kills

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Science and hope affirmation from XKCD

Today's XKCD, "Sickness," treats with faith, hope, and frailty, and is a stirring affirmation for science as a source of comfort in times of trouble. Randall Munroe, the strip's creator, recently went on hiatus due to a family illness; this, presumably, was inspired by it. Thanks for such a great strip, Randall, and I hope things are looking up for your family.

Science and hope affirmation from XKCD

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Ultra Science Videos

On TLC's "Ultra Science," learn what comets are, where they come from and hear a hypothesis that a comet crash was what killed the dinosaurs.

Ultra Science Videos

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Home Labs on the Rise for the Fun of Science

Home laboratories are becoming more common as devices like microscopes and DNA analysis kits become more computerized, cheaper and easier to use.

Home Labs on the Rise for the Fun of Science

Backlink: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=4f8913424a55e66097c5a60c1810bdd3

Wikileaks: Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science

If this image is to be believed—and I have no reason not to, other than that I found it on the internet—the rebel squadrons behind Anonymous (attn. "news" hacks - that would be an entirely different group from Wikileaks and/or Wikipedia) are about to change their approach. So far, as we've witnessed, they have been launching point-and-click distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks at companies perceived as the enemies of Wikileaks. Those targets included Mastercard, Paypal, and Visa (companies that froze donation funding), and Amazon (which denied hosting services). The new approach suggests more sophisticated thinking. This new mission, apparently, is to actually read the cables Wikileaks has published and find the most interesting bits that haven't been publicized yet, then publicize them.

Wikileaks: Anonymous stops dropping DDoS bombs, starts dropping science

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Republican Congressmen Crowdsource Attack on Science

runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience702002116001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Under the auspices of keeping federal spending under control, Republican congressmen have launched yet another attack on the basic scientific research that could lead to useful, potentially job-creating discoveries. House majority leader Eric [...]

Republican Congressmen Crowdsource Attack on Science

Backlink: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nsf-youcut-review/

Republican Congressmen Crowdsource an Attack on Science

runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience702002116001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Under the auspices of keeping federal spending under control, Republican congressmen have launched yet another attack on basic scientific research that could lead to useful, potentially job-creating discoveries. House majority leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) [...]

Republican Congressmen Crowdsource an Attack on Science

Backlink: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nsf-youcut-review/

Open thread for science and math jokes!

It's Thursday afternoon and I'm feeling a bit silly, so I'm putting out a call for everyone to share their favorite groan-inducing, head-slapping, pun-laden science and math jokes. Here's a couple to start us out:

Open thread for science and math jokes!

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More fun with setting things on fire, ostensibly for science

Last week, we carefully observed the interaction between fire and steel wool. Much important data was gathered. I think we all learned something. Now, it's time to progress our research. Up next: What happens when you use a laser to ignite a piece of paper that's been suspended inside a clear balloon? The slow-motion replay is really the key in this experiment. Don't miss it.

More fun with setting things on fire, ostensibly for science

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