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In which I contemplate the ranks of the invisible - Mind the Gap Blog | Nature Publishing Group
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In which we experience the big thaw - Mind the Gap Blog | Nature Publishing Group
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Please pardon appearances while I renovate. While you wait, feel free to visit my main site or read the latest installments of The Synthesist , my column for OnEarth magazine about the intersection of technology and nature. Back in no time ….
Your broccoli's 1,458th cousin, once-removed. Creative Commons Kulac. S o let’s say you’re a wild leafy vegetable, innocently minding your own business on limestone seacliffs on the coasts of southern and western Europe. Suddenly, some prehistoric human takes it into their head that you are worth installing in their newfangled “garden”. Fast forward several thousand years, and the results of that domestication almost put Westminster to shame.
The Wolf of the Vegetable World
On the occasion of its 100th anniversary today, the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University put together a list of what it calls the “ 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years .” Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward are there.
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I'm posting this in honor of Stegosaurus Week at Dinosaur Tracking . Here's Day One , here's Day Two . Rob Pierce , my partner in culture-crime , recently sent me an email that touched on a number of creative issues that have been occupying my mind recently. I suggested that he post it on his blog and I respond; he agreed.
5 Pretentionist Statements
A Scientific Fairy Tale | Chemical Heritage Foundation
Fairy oxygen and hydrogen atoms forming a water molecule in Lucy Rider Meyer's Real Fairy Folks or Fairy Land of Chemistry. Image courtesy of CHF's Othmer Library of Chemical History. September 14, 2010 | Michal Meyer Fairy tales have no place in science.
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James Ball sent me the data for the Russian election vote counts this morning and asked me to test whether it deviates from Benford’s law, a test that can give a hint at whether numbers are the product of fraud. Posted below is my analysis, and also a check for last digit preference, which is another method for spotting sneakiness. Read the rest of this entry » Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 9 July 2011 Since I was a teenager, whenever I have a pivotal life event coming – an exam, or an interview – I perform a ritual. I sit cross-legged on the floor, and I imagine an enormous golden beam of energy coming out of my arse.
