A recent story article on the BBC News confirms the long standing belief that everything is bad for you. The latest ‘finding’ is that… Vitamins ‘increase cholesterol’.
So we better stop eating vitamins (at the same time as making sure we get our recommended daily intake).
Vacuum soup for lunch anyone?
Posted on Sunday 30th December 2007 in Blog tagged discovery, health, news, pointless, Science, with no comments.
A really interesting article by Steven Pinker in The New Republic, on why we swear and why it is still taboo. TNR Online | What the F***?
Quite long, but worth the read IMO.
found via John Gruber/Daring Fireball
Posted on Sunday 21st October 2007 in Blog, Science tagged homo-sapiens, language, Links, Science, with no comments.
NASA have now made their amazing montage of city lights across the Earth at night available as a layer on Google Earth.
To switch it on, go to Layers > Featured Content > NASA > Earth City Lights, but before you do that, for maximum impact, navigate to an area you know well, like Scotland, and [...]
Posted on Sunday 22nd July 2007 in Blog, Science tagged Computers, energy, environmental, landscapes, mapping, Photos, Science, space, technology, with no comments.
I have just finished reading “The God Delusion“, Richard Dawkins. He has written an interesting and thought provoking book, and although I do not agree with everything he says, I would tend to agree with his general viewpoint. If you are religious and easily offended, please look away now.
He starts off to explain why he [...]
Posted on Saturday 7th July 2007 in Blog, Reviews tagged book-review, religion, Science, with no comments.
Everyone should read this book. It should be part of the national curriculum, as it is much more important than Shakespeare.
The Revenge of Gaia
Yes, James Lovelock does have an outlying view of the Earth system we live in, but only by reading these theories that are not mainstream, do we truly appreciate the potential perils [...]
Posted on Friday 22nd June 2007 in Reviews, Science tagged book-review, books, climate change, environmental, Science, with no comments.
