tags: science

The New York Times published an article about how eldest children tend to be ever-so-slightly more “intelligent” than their younger sibs. (Found on Newsvine.)

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December

2007 Dec 31

models

I dig this quote:

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2015

September

2015 Sep 10

Pro-science, but anti-water-carrying for corporations

I am not anti-science by any means, but it seems clear to me that we shouldn't just take multinational corporations at their word that everything they do is perfectly safe and only in our best interests based solely on scientific studies that they funded because "Science!" and "Don't be a anti-science superstitious Luddite!" (And it would also be nice if regulatory bodies caught these kinds of adverse effects prospectively rather than retrospectively.)

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2015 Sep 12

SI units FTW

…in the American system, the answer to “How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?” is “Go fuck yourself,” because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”

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