You know you must be reaching “peak insane diet” when magazines like Cosmopolitan are calling your diet out for being nuts. And that’s exactly what happened on Monday when Yvette D’Entremont posted a piece called “All […]
As many of you know, I’m an avid proponent of non-scientists engaging with science. Sometimes that means engaging directly with scientific research and sometimes it means asking experts for help when you don’t understand. A […]
I don’t know why, but the personality test calling itself the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (and the added Keirsey Temperaments) keeps popping up again, so I thought I’d take a minute to remind everyone that it’s about […]
It’s the e-cigarette debate: “popcorn lung” edition. *** The headline hit the news sites last week that certain flavouring agents in e-cigarette liquids contain potentially dangerous compounds. Well, that’s what it would have said. Instead it […]
The internet is abuzz once again with the rumour that we’re (once again) about to discover the true identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. *** As of yesterday there are two new names you can […]
*** Starting yesterday, and running through to tomorrow, a group of scientists from around the world are meeting in Washington, DC to discuss the future of genome editing — more specifically, its ethics. There are […]
Neither self-contradictory nor absurd, the “Obesity Paradox” isn’t really paradoxical at all. *** Unless you’re talking about infinite hotels or cause following effect in a one-way timeline, I’m not keen on the use of the term “paradoxical.” […]