by Tom | Oct 4, 2010 | Science
Empathy’s failures is a must-read Bad Science. Summary: we punish people who harm more people less harshly than if they harm fewer people. Brilliant conclusion, too.
by Tom | Oct 1, 2010 | Business, Personal, Science
As usual, the IgNobel prizes are excellent. I very much enjoyed whale snot, curing asthma with roller coaster rides, wearing socks outside your shoes on ice. I absolutely loved the mathematical demonstration that random promotion of staff would lead to greater...
by Tom | Sep 14, 2010 | Personal, Science
Placebo Buttons. Brilliant. I will use this alongside Wiffy’s emotional fact. I strongly believe that all the zebra crossing buttons I have tried at Archway are placebos.
by Tom | Sep 13, 2010 | Personal, Science
Time lapse of the night sky above a telescope array in Chile. We got some very, very lovely night skies in Crete, but nothing quite like these. The second one demonstrates that the Magellanic clouds are visible to the naked eye. That’s my next must see in the...
by Tom | Aug 19, 2010 | Science
Is Wi-Fi Causing Kids to Be Sick?, <a href=”http://fxn.ws/cUv6R6″>http://fxn.ws/cUv6R6</a>. So all the evidence from the article is negative. Why isn’t the headline?
by Tom | Aug 17, 2010 | Science
MythBusters NASA Moon Landing. I a) love MythBusters and b) love how a fan has set up this site with their results. Particularly agree with conspiracy theorist commenter Morlock8k who argues that it would have cost more to fake the moon landings accurately than to go...
