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From the Daily Mail. Here’s how we’d see the molecule represented in a textbook.

And here’s the world’s first picture of the molecule.

I haven’t laughed this hard in years. John Scalzi reams Star Trek “science” a new one.
UPDATE: Where’s PETA?

Bad Science has an excellent article up about how we are hardwired to find patterns:
But we have an innate human ability to make something out of nothing. We see shapes in the clouds and a man in the moon; gamblers are convinced that they have “runs of luck”; we can take a perfectly cheerful heavy […]

Sit around the fire and let me tell you a story — a true story, by the way — from an academic conference I attended some time ago. For those of you who have never attended an academic conference, it’s exactly as you imagine: Hundreds of egghead academics gathered together to present egghead academic papers […]

Technorati: junk science, moonbats, wackjobs, nutcases, progressives, leftists, liberals, envirowackos, democrats, idiotarians
Kind of a hat tip to WILLisms, and I say “kind of” because I’ve been a fan of the site since it first went up. But I hadn’t been in a while, so if you’ve […]

If you’re not interested in the issues (yes, with political implications, at least in some cases) of academic research, you probably want to skip this. Just sayin, you know.
The field discussed here, Second Language Acquisition (SLA), is a split-personality field. It didn’t exist until Chomsky (yes, that Chomsky), so it is a field monopolized by […]

Those state of the art buoys for gathering data just aren’t so state of the art any more.
When they were first deployed in 2003, the Argos were hailed for their ability to collect information on ocean conditions more precisely, at more places and greater depths and in more conditions than ever before.
No longer would scientists […]

I bet you think this is going to be about creationism or something like that. You’re wrong.
William Briggs, statistician (and if you don’t think statisticians can be humorous, you really need to drop by his blog), commented on an article I had sent him in one of those “Seen this?” email messages. The article, on […]