As I got tired of spending $50 a week for the privilege of going to work, I’ve been commuting on the bus for a little while and it has given me an extra hour or two a day to get some reading in. Recently, I finished Jim Endersby’s A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology. […]
Having read the full paper that I mentioned here, I think some of my initial reservations, which were based on a synopsis, were a little misplaced. Which, frankly, should come as a shock to no one. Maybe the reviewers at Science know more about good science than I do, whoda thunk it? […]
Shamelessly Cross-Posted From the OC.
Late to the party as always, I’d like to point out that University Economics Professor Bill Harbaugh has a new paper on paying taxes in Science a couple of weeks ago. First of all, congratulations to Professor Harbaugh on getting this interesting piece of research into a leading journal. […]
Dr. Helen has a long and in-depth look at an article from Men’s Health about exercise and depression.. Both are extremely interesting reads, especially considering my own experiences in high school and the first bit of college.
In high school I was a pretty good runner. Not phenomenal, but pretty good. My senior […]
For some reason, in 2006 a lot of people spent a lot of time talking about a non-falsifiable idea called “String theory.” Which is a real shame, because there’s some genuinely cool stuff going on at the intersection of gravity and quantum mechanics: Scientists recently measured the gravitational constant G by observing the […]
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