Bitcoin Boom? The price of Bitcoin zoomed past $750 this week, its highest point in fourteen months, and chances are it’s going to go higher in the near term. The “prime mover” (if you will) […]
Another battleground for gender equality | Image: US Government / Selective Service Publications, CC0 (Public Domain) *** In September, I wrote about how particular brands of bad people like to point out all of the […]
A new(ish) paper up on the arXiv servers poses an interesting solution to the Fermi Paradox — basically put, if we’re normal, then we’ve got a while to wait. | Photo: Hubble / NASA *** […]
Photo: Sancho McCann, CC BY 2.0 *** I am heartbroken, and I am outraged. Over the past few days, I have been trying to deal with the mass murder of members of the LGBTQ community […]
*for healthy adults. | Photo: Ryan Snyder, CC BY 2.0 *** Motherboard announced rather triumphantly that “Probiotics are useless, GMOs are fine, and gluten is necessary” last week, but as usual, claims like that require […]
Well, Peter Thiel has won in his quest for revenge: Gawker Media is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and will likely be sold once its assets are realigned. I don’t like that they published […]
A healthy T-Cell | Photo: NIAID, CC BY 2.0 A Potential Cure for Some MS Patients This week a Canadian medical team published a paper in the journal The Lancet detailing the procedure and long-term follow-up […]
So it’s been a very, very long week, and I’ve had a couple of days where the bad news just keeps coming. I’m filled with more rage than I can stand at the entire Brock […]
I was going to post this back at the beginning of April, but it got out of hand and now it’s a thing. So because time is short and I don’t feel much like writing […]
Photo: Mike Jennings, CC BY 2.0 Today’s post is about a new study on copper, and about the results of trying to look into how much is too much on wikipedia. Read on! *** Copper: […]