Breaking Diet News: Someone, Alert the Media!
2009.03.02 (Mon) 21:25
In a shocking surprise that shocked and surprised nobody (except people who really, truly believe that fad diets work), the results of a surprisingly shocking In a shocking surprise that shocked and surprised nobody (except people who really, truly believe that fad diets work), the results of a surprisingly shocking [»]
New Method of Creating Stem Cell Lines, Same Old Bullshit Opposition
2006.08.24 (Thu) 15:14
As all of our readers are presumably aware, the debate over what some call the "morality" of stem cell research has been a hot topic over the past few years. Despite the fact that there are plenty of [»]
Invisibility and Reverse Light
2006.05.26 (Fri) 11:11
We freely admit it: we totally geek out when science fiction concepts crawl closer and closer to becoming reality. As reported by both We freely admit it: we totally geek out when science fiction concepts crawl closer and closer to becoming reality. As reported by both [»]
What Happens to Your College Roommate When He Grows Up
2006.03.29 (Wed) 16:09
"Grows up" being a relative term, here.
Remember those heady head-shop days when you'd get together with your college buddies over the six foot bong they'd made in glass-blowing class or a seltzer gu [»]
Next Up on the Amazon Wish List
2006.03.28 (Tue) 16:03
Übertechie and democratically elected despot of Stupid Evil Bastards worldwide, Les Jenkins put up a s worldwide, Les Jenkins put up a [»]
A Nebula Far, Far Away
2006.03.24 (Fri) 17:06
Just to emphasize that you can fall prey to pareidolia even when you're quite aware of what it is, we present , we present [»]
Gender Vendor
2006.03.01 (Wed) 23:53
Since so many people that we know are in the baby-making phase of their lives right now, Since so many people that we know are in the baby-making phase of their lives right now, [»]
Visiting With History: AMNH's "Darwin" Exhibit
2005.11.27 (Sun) 23:53
This one goes out to all the folks in the New York area, or anyone who will be visiting within the next six months. As reported over on This one goes out to all the folks in the New York area, or anyone who will be visiting within the next six months. As reported over on [»]
Carl Sagan's Cosmos Returns to Television
2005.10.07 (Fri) 16:44
We were absolutely thrilled to learn that the Science Channel is currently re-broadcasting the entire Cosmos series. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the series, Carl Sagan guides the viewer t [»]
Mighty Mice
2005.09.30 (Fri) 17:01
Over on Pharyngula, PZ Myers has a fascinating post up on some laboratory mice who have the remarkable ability of true regeneration! One way to mark individual mice is by punching small holes in their [»]
Bait and Switch: The Elusive Common Ground
2005.09.20 (Tue) 21:17
In reading our list of Usual Suspects, one argument that we often come across is the argument that science and religion are really "quite similar." Heck, we just heard this recently on our own site fr [»]
Brother, Can You Spare $100 Million?
2005.08.14 (Sun) 19:44
We stumbled across this space-related story over on ABC News: The company that pioneered commercial space travel by sending "tourists" up to the International Space Station is planning a new mission: [»]
Catching Up on Frist's Stem Cell Announcement
2005.08.03 (Wed) 16:48
Just about a week ago, Senate Majority leader and well-known nutbag Bill Frist split with President Bush, and declared his support for the recently proposed stem cell legislation. Admittedly, we didn' [»]
Homo Sapiens: Spreading Like the Common Cold
2005.07.27 (Wed) 17:38
Last week, 2% favorite Les Jenkins focused our attention on a story that didn't make too many waves in the mainstream media: The US space agency believes the two rover spacecraft scuttling across the [»]
Skeptico Spoon-Feeds Thimerosal Facts to RFK Jr.
2005.07.21 (Thu) 19:40
After watching Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s appearance on The Daily Show last night, we were crossing our fingers that Skeptico would do a pile-driver on RFK's factual errors, quote-mining, scare tactics, [»]
Kudos to Spain, Again
2005.07.12 (Tue) 10:12
Hot on the heels of their legalization of gay marriage, Spain is once again pissing off the Christian contingent by pushing forward legislation aimed at allowing therapeutic cloning for embryonic stem [»]
Stem Cell Research and Willful Ignorance of the Facts
2005.05.20 (Fri) 23:58
Because of the United States' policy to not fund embryonic stem cell research, it has been apparent that as long as the religious right is in power, any advances in that field will necessarily come fr [»]
MIT Joke Paper Accepted in Conference
2005.04.15 (Fri) 01:47
This one's just too good. Three graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put together two randomly generated academic papers consisting entirely of high-brow vocabulary and "cont [»]
New NASA Chief to Revisit Hubble Decision
2005.04.12 (Tue) 23:56
Based on the recent confirmation hearings that went rather smoothly by all accounts, it appears that Mike Griffin will soon take his place as the next head of NASA. After canning a possible robotic se [»]
Cool New Octopus Camouflage & Locomotion Observed
2005.03.24 (Thu) 20:46
We've long been fascinated by cephalopods, in no small part due to their incredible abilities to change their appearances in fantastically diverse and often exceedingly strange ways. There are various [»]
EFF: Endangered Gizmos List
2005.02.07 (Mon) 22:04
Last month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation created a list of Endangered Gizmos — a watchlist for products and services that are being lobbied and legislated out of existence by large corpora [»]
More Titan Pictures from Huygens
2005.01.15 (Sat) 11:59
Here are a few more pictures of Titan, in case you haven't seen them yet. They include a colorized version of yesterday's side view, and a couple of panoramas made up of yesterday's raw images. Unscre [»]
First Huygens Image of Titan Released
2005.01.14 (Fri) 15:38
The first picture from the Huygens probe to Titan was released a few minutes ago. We managed to track down a grainy copy on the CNN web site. In case you are also getting shut out of the ESA web site. [»]
Huygens Lands on Titan!
2005.01.14 (Fri) 11:19
The Huygens probe landed successfully on Saturn's moon of Titan sometime around 7:45AM EST this morning, and successfully began sending back science data, the first of which was received on Earth arou [»]
Huygens to Reach Titan on Friday the 14th
2005.01.11 (Tue) 20:03
Not everything that we Rant about falls into the "eradicating bullshit" category — some Rants are of the "use of science...to further the progress of humankind" variety. This is one of the latte [»]
Morality: Biological or Psychological?
2004.11.22 (Mon) 20:53
An article on Wired News, found via Stupid Evil Bastard, discusses fMRI technology and its current use in studying the functions of the human brain during a decision making process. ...the technique a [»]