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FDA Study: Roach Carcasses in Airline Food Factory ‘too numerous to count’
Image via Wikipedia Courtesy of Vanity Fair (by way of USA Today), reporting on a recent FDA study of airline food safety — the news for anyone who travels is not good: According to USA Today, the...
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A Tour of Dubious ‘Science’ and Other Strange Claims in Vintage Advertising
Today our tour of vintage advertising is going to cover some unusual/disturbing territory. First, we’re going to review ”scientific” claims in vintage ads, then we’re going to check out a few ads...
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‘PepsiGate’ Rocks the Science Blogging World
Image via Wikipedia The latest buzz in science blog circles–and quickly spilling out into more mainstream venues–is that SEED magazine, owner of the well-regarded ScienceBlogs network, has stepped in...
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How Our Brains Outwit Cruel Gods
Image via Wikipedia Consistent across the big three Western monotheisms is a theme notable only for its inconsistency: God is love, except for when he’s a belligerent tyrant with an unquenchable...
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In Your Brain, Feet and Sex are Old Friends
Strange and perplexing meanders the path of science news in any given day. Earlier, I came across a story over at BBC News about the effect of celebrity endorsements of shoes on women’s brains. A Dutch...
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How Many Red Bulls Would Kill You?
Image via Wikipedia The folks at Energy Fiend have developed an online calculator called “Death by Caffeine” that tells you roughly how many Red Bulls, Monsters, Rock Stars, etc you’d have to drink to...
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The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense
This brilliant piece of work by Crispian Jago has been making its way around the Net, and I’m adding my endorsement. Nicely done. (click on the image for full size) HT: Why Evolution is True
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Back When Mickey Mouse was a Speed Freak
Mind Hacks recently ran a short post on the history of Mickey Mouse using amphetamines. As strange as it sounds, the notion wasn’t all that peculiar in the 1950s when anyone could buy legal speed...
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To Avoid Diabetes, Think like a Diabetic
Image by GDS Digital via Flickr Two things run strong and hard on both sides of my family: heart disease and type 2 diabetes. As a deluge of medical research tells us, the two are closely linked....
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Be Well, Do Good Work, and Keep in Touch
Since Michael is turning off the lights, I think it’s time I said my so-longs as well. True/Slant has been a regular part of my life for almost a year. I became familiar with the site when the...
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