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Category: science
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Watermelon Rind: A Guest Post
This is a post from Tammie Darden, who I am proud to call friend. She’s an inspiration to me: she cooks, cans, gardens, and like I have been working at becoming, she’s a scientist. When I saw her talking about a paper on the use of watermelon rind, I asked if she would be…
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Heinlein Comes True
When science fiction loses the fiction. Papa Heinlein has predicted many things that came true, but this one… Well, there are serious ethical questions that arise from this idea. But it’s the route that Heinlein postulated in Methuselah’s Children: replacement of old blood with young blood. It’s almost poetic in an abstract sense. Given…
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Pandemic on the Easy Setting
I keep telling people that this whole Covid-19 thing is pandemic on the easy setting. I’ve been interested in infectious diseases for a very long time, and frankly we have been overdue for a pandemic in this era of global travel for quite some time now. That it has been so mild and non-lethal…
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Plandemic Debunking
I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories. For one thing, they buck human nature. You know the cliche – two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. Study criminology for any length of time and you’ll find that the vast majority of criminals undo their own attempts to conceal their crime…
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Random Science
I need to collect my scattered thoughts before I attempt an essay. In the meantime, some interesting science articles that caught my eye. Long-term consequences of life in microgravity: Cap’n! Spin up the space station! “Scientists have hypothesized that chronic exposure to elevated intracranial pressure, or pressure inside the head, during spaceflight is a…
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Data Not Collected is Not Data
In science, data is king. However, the problem with this becomes quickly evident to anyone clever enough to start asking questions like ‘what data? How was it collected? When? Where?’ and so on and so forth. Incomplete or incorrect data, or simply the lack of any data, means that the hypothesis cannot be supported,…
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Consider, if you will, the lowly worm
A friend pinged me on a share of an article about an exciting scientific find. I found his comment under many, many other comments with jokey gifs. Because the movie trope was what came to most people’s minds when they saw a headline about a giant worm with snapping jaws. Not having ever seen…
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Golden Cyberpunk Butterflies
Short one today – it’s been a week. I can’t talk about most of it here, maybe later. Suffice it to say I’m tired, and still have a full day ahead of me. The weekend with all it’s plethora of chores and obligations beckons with a promise of some time to relax and digest…
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Coronavirus: Don’t Panic
I’ve been pinged severally about the coronavirus in the last week or so, and I’m mostly going to point you at expert articles here, but first: there is no need for panic. This is certainly not the outbreak of 1918 flu, and while the projections do show a likely global spread, it’s not going…
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Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
I’m always fascinated with food science. It’s only natural – I like to eat, after all. But in this world of ever uncertain nutritional recommendations, it can be a little confusing for the average consumer. And it’s ultimately the biggest ‘First World Problem’ to use that derisive phrase in a true sense. If you…
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I’m Positive it’s Science
Even if sometimes the results aren’t what everyone was expecting. I was noodling around and came across a couple of things I thought I’d toss on here as I’m out of time this morning. Firstly, this is a scathing abstract, and made me giggle a little. If you read between the lines, as I…
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Human Nature and the Progress of Lying
I’ve been having a fascinating conversation this morning with friend and fellow writer Tom Knighton. It started out discussing the article on mouse utopias I’d used as a platform for my Mad Genius Club post today, and then it wandered as these things do into the human pysche and how it affects science. This…