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  One of the great evolutionary leaps in history has been the development of modern science.
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “scientific method”

 

• Weird Science takes antibiotics to ward off a case of idiocy

  
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  Sheep purple An antibiotic that also helps prevent stupidity. Alternately, one of the most useful side effects of a drug that Ive ever heard of. Theres an antibiotic called minocycline, which is a close chemical relative of the more commonly prescribed tetracycline. But recently, some researchers ...
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• Ammonia leak on space station causes concerns, power re-route (Updated)

  
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  The crew of the International Space Station might be taking an unscheduled space walk tomorrow to check out what appears to be a leak in one of the recirculating ammonia loops used to keep the stations power-generating solar arrays within operating temperature. The leak was first noticed on Thursday morning, when ...
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• The rise of a frog-killing fungus pinned in part on global trade

  
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  Justin C. Touchon, Smithsonian Tropical Research It’s a tough time to be a frog. A fungal disease known as chytridiomycosis has been decimating populations across the planet for about a decade. Since its discovery in the late 1990s, it has already wiped out about 100 species. Although it seemed to ...
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• Proposed bill that would regulate NSF research funding faces backlash

  
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  Over the past several months, Congress has gotten rather upset by some of the research funded by arms of the federal government, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. That displeasure eventually prompted the House Science Committees chair, Lamar Smith (R-TX), to float a bill ...
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• Of mice and markets

  
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  Stockton.edu How do ethics and the free market interact? As the authors of a new paper on the topic point out, the answer is often complicated. In the past, Western economies had vigorous markets for things we now consider entirely unethical, like slaves and Papal forgiveness for sins. Ending those ...
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• Spontaneous Generation and Biogenesis: The History of Biology

  
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  Overview:  Scientific Belief in Spontaneous Generation Great thinkers in ancient times thought that life arose spontaneously in areas where there wasn’t anything living that they could observe.  For example, Aristotle believed that some fish were made from the muddy sediment at the bottoms of rivers and oceans.  ...
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• Erectile function: bats mop up nectar with “hairy” tongues

  
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  Brown University As sweet as the reward is, it isnt easy being a nectar-feeder. Bats, hummingbirds, and bees face the difficult task of sipping as much nectar as possible from a tiny floral tube, all while hovering delicately in the air. And since hovering is such an energy-demanding task, the more ...
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• Injecting new neurons helps tone down epileptic seizures

  
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  Transplanted neurons (green) successfully integrated into the brains of adult mice. RF Hunt and SC Baraban When most people think of the nervous system, they think of it as a hub of activity. Sensations trigger nerves, which activate the ones theyre connected to, eventually producing a ...
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• GMO Wheat and shouting “fire” in a crowded theater « Biology Fortified, Inc.

  
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  Article by MaryM at Biofortified. A  report from an activist group  called  Safe Food Foundation (SFF)  came out last fall that caused a minor stir upon it’s first release. They claimed that they had unearthed an issue with GMO wheat being studied by the Australian CSIRO researchers. The wheat under ...
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• Meet the thousands of people ready to die on Mars

  
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  Insert your face here! Provided funding, suppliers, and a plan come to light within the next 10 years. Mars One Aaron Hamm , an assistant hotel engineer who deals with HVAC, cooling systems, and maintenance, lacks the traditional qualifications to be an astronaut. But that doesnt mean he ...
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• Los Alamos has been running a demo quantum key distribution system

  
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  The first generation hardware. The authors are already building something that will be significantly smaller. The encryption that we rely on to secure network transactions is based on a simple computational challenge: its hard to find two prime numbers when youre only given the big number that they produce ...
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• Exposing Pre-Commitments

  
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  A Moment of Rare Honesty Every so often an Unbeliever comes along who shows he is aware of his assumptions and pre-commitments.  It does not happen very often.  The cry of our age is, "Just the facts, maam."  We just focus upon facts and follow wherever they take us.  The problem with this is that our ...
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• The ImPossibility Of Reconciling Science & Faith

  
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  Science & FaithAn article, by Gary Marcus, in The New Yorker raises the question on whether science can lead to faith, a question often asked by non-scientists and by the few scientists who want to have it both ways.Marcus writes:The relationship between science and religion has always been vexed. Most scientists ...
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• Is tea research all it is cracked up to be?

  
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  There are many reports of research carried out on various types of tea to determine their effectiveness in combating weight gain, cancer, heart disease, and so on. But just how much of this research is meaningful? Yes, the research happened and produced certain results, but those results may not be scientifically ...
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• Is SETI Science?

  
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  I recently receive the following e-mail question: Got a question for you: do you consider the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence to be science or pseudoscience? I recently got into an online debate and found myself in the minority because I maintained that the central thesis — that if intelligent life exists ...
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• The Scientific Method On TV

  
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  Last week Michael Edmonds asked “ Which TV Show Best Demonstrates the Scientific Method? “ Various shows where suggested such as CSI and NCIS. Bones made an appearance in the comments as one show that exhibits a fair amount of pseudoscience along with it’s “real” science. House was praised for it’s ...
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• The Scientific Method On TV

  
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  Last week Michael Edmonds asked “ Which TV Show Best Demonstrates the Scientific Method? “ Various shows where suggested such as CSI and NCIS. Bones made an appearance in the comments as one show that exhibits a fair amount of pseudoscience along with it’s “real” science. House was praised for it’s ...
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• Nature makes an effort to enhance reproducibility in science

  
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  Even this scientific journal includes photographs of its methods! Blue Yonder Yesterday, the scientific journal Nature published an editorial to announce a new policy that targets a long-standing problem in the biological sciences: reproducibility. Editors apparently recognize the papers ...
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• High-mass pulsar binary provides best test of general relativity

  
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  Artists impression of a binary system containing a pulsar (smaller object with jets of light) and a white dwarf. The result of their mutual orbit generates gravitational waves, shown as the ripples in space-time. Luis Calçada/European Southern Observatory The general theory of relativity is a ...
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• Remains of a supernova fall to Earth

  
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  Spectral analysis indicates that silica is present in this supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ O. Krause (Steward Observatory) Asteroids are old. Really, really old. They formed at the same time as the planets, so when their pieces fall to Earth, they deliver 4.56 billion- ...
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