Sloppy Science: the athletics edition
The September 30 issue of Nature featured a brief communication with a study comparing men’s and women’s sprinting. The authors concluded that by the 2156 Olympics, the winner of the women’s 100[…]

More on “Flores Man”
Nature has now set up a special section on the Flores hominid discovery (or Homo floresiensis — impress your friends!) that Mark UNLEASHED on Proven By Science a few days ago. You know it’s a big discove[…]

For the politically inclined scientist in all of us:
A link to the “Bush and Kerry on the scientific issues” article that I wrote about a few weeks ago. It’s now available for free, no subsription required.
Counterbalancing this rep[…]

The Open Access Debate : To be Free, or Not to be Free?
Preamble: I was endlessly undecided about this issue. I mulled this over, wrote some stuff, mulled some more, wrote more a few days later, decided everything I wrote was crap, mulled again, deci[…]

Stop eating your spinach — the future of hydro may depend on it
Spinach Could Power Better Solar Cells
They report a light-to-electrical efficiency of 12%, which in itself isn’t bad. I believe that’s not atypical even for “c[…]

Bush vs Kerry : THE SCIENCE CHRONICLES
The cover story in this week’s Nature is a political one: Mr. Bush, Mr. Kerry, what is your stance on science? Fifteen questions were posed to each candidate, and their responses (or at least the respons[…]

A guy spends months on ILX being forced to talk about boring stuff like music and sex without any respite*. Then, out of all that gloom*, emerges not one, but TWO science threads in the same day**.
Qaballah — Classic or Dud
Parallels Between[…]

4th Annual University of Toronto Physics Jamboree
Despite the silly name, this is actually a very creative introduction to the work done in our department. The concept : in alphabetical order, each professor must present an introduction to their work[…]

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t give a crap about the Kobe Bryant rape trial, but check out this article :
The Science of the Brief Encounter
It looks to be a well-researched overview of the key physical evidence in the case (incl. DNA evidence). The […]

So we all know that Pong was the first video game. Well, now it can be played for the first time … using MIND CONTROL … link
It blows my mind that such things are possible. What’s more, MRI techniques are bound to keep getting m[…]