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ScientificBlogging Xenon - maybe even stranger than we thought.
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When Dmitri Mendeleev first published his table of elements in 1869 (picture), only 60 of these were known. One group in particular was absent, namely the inert gases. Now you may have heard this song: ...
ScientificBlogging Is this H theorem correct? An odd name for a terrific article. A contraction followed by an unbounded expansion explains both quirky hotels and the whole universe too.
ScientificBlogging Don't shelter your kids - some stress can be good for them.
Don't Shelter Your Children: Coping With Stress As A Child Develops Resilience And Emotion Regulatio
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We already know that "suffering builds character", but a new study suggests that it may do a lot more than that. Successfully coping with stress at an early age may significantly increase your chances of being a more resilient adult, as well as strengthen your ability to regulate emotions.
ScientificBlogging Forget 'best of' columns, Alex Antunes highlights his worst columns of 2009 - though that is like being the shortest guy in a family of giants.
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To wrap up the year, I'm listing my 4 worst columns. Or, at least, the four columns that got outstandingly terrible readership. I searched for a pattern or justification for why people ...
ScientificBlogging The Science Of Illusions In Four Easy Steps
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Many illusions are like spherically curved space. Below on the left (fig. 1 ) is a geometrical illusion, and on the right is a ball with some great arcs drawn on it. Notice the similarities: the distortions ...
ScientificBlogging Ducks, are you worried about being impregnated by males with corkscrew-shaped penises? Evolution is here to help.
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Female ducks can thank evolution for avoiding becoming impregnated by undesirable but aggressive males endowed with large corkscrew-shaped penises: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely spiraled males. ...
ScientificBlogging The days of charged leptons as the single most important tools for the discovery of rare production processes appears behind us.
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The signature of large missing energy and jets is arguably one of the most important avenues for the study of potential new physics signatures at today's hadron colliders. The above concept marks an interesting ...
ScientificBlogging A Call To Promote More Scientific Skepticism In The Media
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A small segment of scientists are not in favor of skepticism; primarily if it happens to be in their discipline. But a group of cancer researchers welcomes it and asks for even more. Writing in the Journal ...
ScientificBlogging Scientists: 'Why you should blog' is the most important thing you will read today.
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Back in August, I gave a talk at the Pacific AAAS meeting explaining why research scientists need to blog. After a long delay to put my incomprehensible notes in to readable (but still somewhat fragmented) ...
ScientificBlogging Mystery lights over Norway? If it's V, I am betting they will not look like that girl from Firefly.
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Witnesses from Trøndelag to Finnmark compared the amazing display to anything from a Russian rocket to a meteor to a shock wave - although no one appears to have mentioned UFOs yet.
ScientificBlogging Rensselaer prof. Mark Mark Changizi laments the lack of realism in TV, but out of phase from what we usually hear. He argues for 'Skin-TV' not just HDTV. Visual evocativeness may be the new Prius!
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Dear TV and Movie Producer Person, I realize that you receive letters all the time complaining about the gratuitous sex and violence on television and in movies. This is not one of those letters. In a sense, I want more sex and violence. ...
ScientificBlogging Actual science press release we got today regarding the Copenhagen global warming to-do: "The International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change will hold this cleansing ceremony for conference party leaders to cleanse their minds and spirits -- for clarity, compassion, strength and perseverance in coming out of ...the COP negotiations with a binding commitment to Save Mother Earth."
ScientificBlogging Congratulations to the winners of our University Writing Competition! Thanks to everyone that participated - we were blown away by the quality of the submissions we received. Check out the winning entries...
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ScientificBlogging Crocodiles in the ancient Sahara. Because modern science is not weird enough.
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Following up their 2000 discovery of an ancient reptile commonly referred to as SuperCroc, paleontologists from the University of Chicago and McGill University today unveiled key fossils of five previously unknown or poorly understood crocodile species. ...
