Science!!!

[Kings Provisional]

Sorry to be Debbie Downer....

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/13/8591837/how-science-is-broken

Disheartening.

 

[Kings Provisional]

But now a good story about science!!!


http://phys.org/news/2015-05-playboy-centrefold-centre-science.html

 

[Krussadams]

The Opah, considered good eating by many, is also the first fish found to be fully warm-blodded:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...biology+(Marine+Biology+News+--+ScienceDaily)

 

[jammer06]

Its a press release but just to give you an idea of how close we are to becoming cyborgs

http://www.mclaren.com/technologygroup/news/views/mclaren-takes-wearable-technology-next-level/

 

[mrm55]

The Opah, considered good eating by many, is also the first fish found to be fully warm-blodded:

Opah's is a darn good restaurant in Aliso Viejo. Great fish and chips.

 

[notbob]

How Soviet Union science helped American sports heroes

 

[santiclaws]

3.3 Million-year-old stone tools found in Kenya, pre-dating the prior earliest known tools by 700,000 years.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7552/full/nature14464.html

 

[jammer06]

3.3 Million-year-old stone tools found in Kenya, pre-dating the prior earliest known tools by 700,000 years.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7552/full/nature14464.html

[MENTION=14232]geogirl[/MENTION] says those "tools" look like rocks

 

[WingHater]

Opah's is a darn good restaurant in Aliso Viejo. Great fish and chips.

Is it really? Now that Fatburger is closed I need another option.

 

[jammer06]

http://www.popsci.com/futuristic-concrete-heals-itself-built-bacteria-0

 

[santiclaws]

geogirl says those "tools" look like rocks

That's how they distinguish rocks from tools:

• Flakes of a similar size
• flakes oriented and overlapping forming an edge
• bulbs of percussion indicating strong short term force rather than long term pressure
• platform preparation
• small flakes along the edge showing a flintknapper preparing and edge;
• stone type selection
• use wear on edges, among others

 

[jammer06]

Lawyers and science hooray!

Aftershock

 

[jammer06]

UC Berkeley graduate, doctoral student find irregularities in same-sex marriage study/

For anyone wondering this is the basic scenario for Peer review. Articles to journals even Science are given a one over by folks who look at it and say "sounds plausible publish it". Then the article comes out and other people attempt to use that science to expand or push the data to a new idea...except when they can't replicate the results and then the authors start to look really bad.

 

[Kings Provisional]

Using herpes to cure cancer:


http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/scientists-use-herpes-virus-to-treat-cancer-in-successful-trials/story-fnpjxnqt-1227371455740

 

[LetTigerIn]

Physicists solve quantum tunneling mystery

 

[DRice]

http://www.discovery.com/dscovrd/te...m_medium=social&utm_campaign=DiscoveryChannel

 

[DRice]

The Truth About Toilet Swirl

 

[notbob]

Surgeons In Brazil Successfully Implant A 3D-Printed Titanium Skull

 

[notbob]

 

[DRice]

Iconic voice of NASA passes away