TAKING SIDES: intellectual property rights vs the well-being of everyone on the planet[…]

So God is no good, mainly cos our authors don’t believe in God and this is THEIR BALL. Meaning, the second option. ALIEUMS.
This chapter wonders exactly why Aliums would build the moon and why would they do it so long ago. Yet again this bizarr[…]

update on the OTHER Best. Science. Story. Ever…
Photograph © Peter Brown/Nature[…]

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“It’s great to be able to help grant Paul’s wish. Had he not had access to the computer he would not have been able to tell us what he wanted to do. Moments like this make it all worthwhile.”
This might provide some conte[…]

THEORY 1: The Moon was built by…GOD.
As the book has not been all that keen on creationism, it is clearly that this idea is given relatively short shrift. Sure, God in his omnipotence, could certainly have done all the things suggested in the b[…]

Onion news in brief[…]

Just when we thought Chapter 9 would finally say who built the moon, it instead gives us a fudge. Oh it names the moon builder all right, and a rubbish name it gives them too. Said moon builder is called : UCA: not the Universe Construction Agency, w[…]

Article and list of this years Ignoble Prize winners. I always remember this being a slightly churlish mickey take of obscure areas of scientific research. This time they seem to be rather proud of the areas of research. The alarm clock that runs and[…]

snakes generally sneer at the “never eat anything bigger than your head” meme, but even if yr quite stretchy, surely “NEVER EAT ANYTHING BIGGER THAN YOUR BODY” is a motto to live by maybe!?! or at least not to die by!
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Nobel Prize For Medicine.
Great story this because it illustrates the best and worst of science. People with ulcers are often stressed. Thus stress > > ulcers. But where is the proof? Well stress can lead to high blood pressure, and patients with hig[…]