by Tom | Nov 30, 2009 | Science
Trailblazing is a great new resource from the Royal Society, starting with the pioneering experiments in the late seventeenth century that started to make clear how the body actually worked and showing that the institution has remained influential to the present...
by Tom | Nov 30, 2009 | Government, Science
“Britain faces return to Victorian levels of poverty”: is a slightly pessimistic look at the good work that has been done on levels of child and pensioner poverty. However, the lesson that universal benefits redistribute more to the poorest than targeted...
by Tom | Nov 30, 2009 | Business, Reading, Science
Lots of exciting things going on in the food world: I read about Incredible Edible in the Indy at first, but it clearly is making waves. And secondly, we are now really close to getting in vitro meat production to the eatable level (of course not at scale, yet)....
by Tom | Nov 28, 2009 | Reading, Science
Two things we should teach everyone:Â the nocebo effect is a very strong version of priming. How is it that people can get symptoms from a sugar pill? Because their brain is doing some clever / weird stuff. How is it that telling people they are wearing knock-off...
by Tom | Nov 26, 2009 | Personal, Science
Turkey electrocution, according to Benjamin Franklin, is a way of creating the perfect Thanksgiving turkey. Not one for the faint of heart, and probably not for Ali Blah Blah. Happy Thanksgiving to all our American and ex-pat chums.
by Tom | Nov 26, 2009 | Personal, Science
Astonishing Edge on consciousness. Experiments show a clear, repeatable non-linear threshold between new events being in consciousness and not (the example is the masking effect of showing a subliminal word and then a string of letters; varying the gap between the...
