Your appendix may save your life that is, if you have one. If you don t, well, I will get to that. First I want to tell you about a guy I know, Bill Parker Bill Parker grew up in Arkansas and is, by my precise calculation, fifty percent pure backwoods Arkansan and fifty percent intellectual wild man
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Read More »Walking or running efficiently, your locomotor muscles might not agree
Humans walk well.
Read More »Welcome to the Year of the Lightbulb
Happy New Year! And welcome to the year of light…bulbs. Why you ask?
Read More »Out-of-Body Experiences Linked with Poor Sense of Own Body
Many individuals report having an out-of-body experience at some point in their life, and now scientists are homing in on the cause. [More]
Read More »Silicon Superego
The most buzzed-about new feature in the latest iPhone is Siri, the virtual minion. You can give her an amazing range of spoken commands, without any training or special syntax, and marvel as she does your bidding
Read More »Most Popular #SciAmBlogs Posts of 2011
OK, this is totally unscientific. On July 5th we launched the new network.
Read More »5 alcohol-isms for New Year’s
1. Drunk walking contains a bigger risk factor than you might think. The journal of Injury Prevention cites January 1 with the high incident rates of pedestrian-motor vehicle crashes (PDF)
Read More »The Elderly React Slowly Because They Want To Be Right
Older folks may appear to react or process info slowly. But there may be a method to their meander-ness: they’re making sure they get it right.
Read More »Faster-than-light neutrinos: a timeline
2011 has been a busy year for particle physicists. They’ve found a new particle , closed in on the elusive Higgs boson , and witnessed some neutrinos acting pretty strangely, amongst other things.
Read More »The Math behind Screening Tests
It seems like every few months a new study points out the inefficacy of yet another wide-scale cancer screening. In 2009 the U.S.
Read More »Duh! 11 Obvious Science Findings of 2011
In science, it's not enough to think something is so. Researchers must show that what
Read More »Solar Paint Converts Light To Electricity
Instead of installing solar panels on your roof--how about just giving your house a new paint job? Of course you’d have to be sure to use solar paint. That’s what a group of Notre Dame researchers has created, detailing the recipe in the journal ACS Nano .
Read More »Court Issues Delay of EPA Rule on Coal Power Plants
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday issued a last-minute order delaying the January 1 implementation of stricter federal limits on pollution from coal-fired power plants, according to a court filing.
Read More »Federal Judge Blocks California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rules
By Dan Levine and Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A judge blocked one of California's signature attempts to lower greenhouse gas emissions, a victory for out-of-state ethanol producers and refiners that has California's air quality board vowing to appeal.
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