The best reason to fund space exploration: alien babes

When President George Bush announced in 2004 that he wanted to reinvigorate space exploration, he presented a number of arguments for increasing funding but they were all rather tepid. Space exploration...

Top 10 Reasons Relationships With Robots Will Be Better For Men

I saw a few articles discussing an upcoming convergence between robot and human culture based on research by Netherlands student David Levy, who completed his PhD on the subject of human-robot relationships. ...

Renewable Energy Wrecks The Environment

Jesse Ausubel, Director of the Program for the Human Environmentat The Rockefeller University in New York, has been fighting for the environment longer than most of us have been alive....

World's First Hydrogen Powered Race Car Debuts

At last, a car that goes really fast ... I mean faster than Al Gore's stoner kid in a Prius ... yet uses delicious hydrogen to go zoom.  Now you can be green - and environmentally clean! 

Want Me To Go Green? Show Me The Math!

Forget the politics and the doublespeak about greenhouse gases.  This is the most exhaustively detailed, non-biased breakdown of what energy it takes to accomplish what in we do in our lives that you are going to read this week.  Or maybe this year....

Will a Federal Energy Standard Help Or Hurt Consumers?

There aren't many people who will claim that the government is here to help you and they will save you money, but Chris Cooper and Benjamin Sovacool are doing just that. Cooper is Senior Policy Director, Network for New Energy Choices while Sovacool is a Senior Research...

What happened before the Big Bang?

It's the big question.  If there was a big bang, who lit the...

Organic Food Definition Will Soon Contain 38 More Inorganic Ingredients - Unl...

The definition of 'organic' already allows for processed fishmeal even if it contains toxic synthetic  substances and growth hormones and antibiotics if it was a year ago.   Now the USDA is considering expanding 'organic' to mean 38 more...

Practical Science Part II - Babes and Beer

Yes, that is beer foam The plain truth is, if you want an impartial analysis of beer, you can't ask a beer drinker. They just can't give you a scientific opinion because they care too much. It's like asking...

How to game Reddit - write for ScienceBlogs.com

Web 2.0 and social news are about the democracy of the masses - but systems can be gamed, or even used as personal PR tools if you know how.  This article shows how ScienceBlogs.com uses Reddit for self-promotion and even blocks out competitors.

Who assassinated JFK? Modern forensics takes a shot at the answer

"Combining statistics and chemistry, researchers are challenging the evidence for the lone-gunman theory in the 1963 assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy."

Awesome video of Orion taken by HARP

If you want to see cool dust cloud movements in the most famous constellation in the sky, you are in luck. This is spectacular.

The Science of Orgasms

I read an article from Men's Health talking about how women get aroused during exercises. Specifically, hanging leg raises. "Coregasm" they called it, because some women can, apparently, have an orgasm while...

Practical Science Part I - Bugs Bunny And Beer

Anyone can tell you, the surest test of your science chops is your ability to make a kid understand it. Science, at its most fundamental, can be understood by anyone if explained properly. Science is, for the most part, conceptual. The math is relatively unimportant as...

Scooped by a Blog

Blogger has idea and posts it on his blog. Blogger gets to co-author science paper because of it. Science 2.0 + Web 2.0 = Awesome social news goodness.
 

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