Metousiosis 08May11 Links
Such are the links this weekend:
- California Prison Academy: Better Than a Harvard Degree
- Astronomers Create 3-D Map of 3-Billion-Year-Old Universe
- Dark Matter: what it does, what it doesn’t do
- Student discovers new virus lurking in cave mud
- Will the internet become a new archaeological record?
- Cosmic magnetic fields
- After 13-Year Underground Adolescence, Billions of Cicadas Will Soon Burst Forth
- Antivaxxer Mark Geier has license revoked in Maryland
- David Barton’s Revisionist History
- FDA: If STD Remedy Doesn’t Require A Prescription, It’s Bogus
- Does Revenge Serve an Evolutionary Purpose?
- Why that study about psychic porn was totally bogus
- Think it’s easy to be macho? Psychologists show how ‘precarious’ manhood is
- Polyglots Might Have Multiple Personalities
- The Real Cost of Dating
- Scientists Trap Antimatter For a Record Breaking 16 Minutes
- More than 20 percent of atheist scientists are spiritual
- The Science Of Firewalking
- Early nutrition has a long-term metabolic impact
- Why do Americans still dislike atheists?
- FDA issues new rules to make children’s drugs safer
- How to raise a child who doesn’t bully
- What vaccine refusal really costs
- When a salad is not a salad: Why are dieters easily misled by food names?
- Polling evolution in Britain
- Catholic bishops target sex ed website
- Biblical Urban Legends
- “Motivated reasoning,” alternative medicine, and the anti-vaccine movement
- Mystery solved: How sickle hemoglobin protects against malaria
- Will it fall? Scientists show how the brain’s estimate of Newton’s laws affects perceived object stability
- What do you do when the person next to you on the plane is reading Deepak Chopra?
- $25 “USB Stick PC” Running Ubuntu
Amateur Astrophotographer Creates Largest True-Color Night Sky Panorama:
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