Scientists discover living power cables made from bacteria. Why We're Hooked On Social Networks. Genetic Manipulation: The First 50,000 Years. This site seems a bit overconfident in GMO given its actual track record.
I understand the mindset of, genetics equals science equals GOOD! But the truth is more complicated, and the science gets mired by both politics and corporate interests when it comes time to make policy. Definitely we should be exploring these things scientifically. However, we are not yet any where near the level of understanding needed to comprehensively tinker so intimately, radically, and irreversibly with our food supply and ecology. You're Worrying About GMOs For the Wrong Reasons. When it comes to feeding the planet, there are many more variables than GMO vs non-GMO.
I'll let someone else argue about GMOs. Here's a bigger concern: Some studies indicate that up to 40% of the food that we produce goes uneaten. And when we do eat food, we eat substantially more than what our bodies need. 6 Creepy Brainwashing Techniques You Can Use Today. You're standing in line at a Starbucks.
A busy-looking suit taps on your shoulder and asks, "Do you mind if I cut in front of you? " Why the Pigeonhole Principle Is One of Math's Most Powerful Ideas. You Have a Painkiller Six Times Stronger Than Morphine In Your Saliva. 10 Reasons You Aren't In Control Of Your Own Decisions. Humans If there’s anything in the world that should be ours and ours alone, it should be our thoughts.
They’re in our heads, after all, and if there’s any place that should be sacred and private, it’s there. Turns out that’s not exactly true, though, and there are so many outside influences shaping your thoughts that you might be left wondering just how many of your emotions, beliefs, and feelings are actually yours. 10 Your News Feed Can Change Your Mood For all its popularity, Facebook isn’t without its share of scandals. According to the study, people don’t even have to be physically around another person in a bad mood to absorb the negativity into themselves—negativity can be “caught” just from looking at a computer screen. 9 Facts In Story Form Are Much More Effective You’re sitting in a sales meeting, and you’re presented with a first-person story about how the boss locked down the first tough sale of his career. 8 Subliminal Messaging Works.
10 Mysterious Graves That Defy Explanation. Mysteries People have been burying dead bodies for a very long time—even Neanderthals buried their dead with flowers before we got in on the act.
Given the billions of bodies that have been put into the ground, a few mysteries are inevitable. Sometimes, the body is a source of unanswered questions. 10 Shockingly Simple Things That Save Lives. Health Modern medicine can do some pretty miraculous stuff.
Yet many dangers that kill people every year don’t need sci-fi technology to solve the problem. Often, humans are just careless, lazy, or shortsighted. Changing our habits prevents millions of deaths, and the solutions are sometimes shockingly simple. 10A Box Of Clothes Vastly Improved Finland’s Infant Mortality Rate During the early 1940s, Finland had a big problem with infant mortality. Damn, this periodic table is beautiful. 11 Things You Didn't Know You Could Eat. Lightning map USA, Canada – thunderstorms and lightning strikes. 5 Great Ideas That America Should Steal from Other Countries. America gets a lot of things right: interstate highways, tap water, fried chicken and waffles ... the list goes on and on.
But we're a young country, and we'd be smart to turn our eyes to the older and wiser members of the global community every now and then and take their advice. Not on, like, health care or welfare or anything. But maybe with stuff like ... #5. Legal Street Drinking. The 6 Weirdest Things That Statistically Lower Crime. You might not have noticed this in the middle of all of the bad news that floods the daily headlines, but crime in the U.S. is at its lowest point in pretty much ... well, ever.
It's been steadily falling since the early '90s. And nobody knows why. Of course, such a giant, sweeping trend doesn't have just one simple cause, but studies have shown that it might have a few shithouse-crazy ones. 5 Optical Illusions That Prove You Can't Trust Your Own Mind. You've been seeing optical illusions probably since kindergarten.
They're fun little party tricks that you look at on the Internet and go "Eh, that's weird" before immediately forgetting about them. And that's too bad, because these images are actually exposing glaring gaps in our brain's fragile sense of reality. 10 Pseudo-Science Theories We'd Like to See Retired Forever. 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing.
Not everyone sees the same color when they stare at this spinning disk. Making Sense of Chemical Stories. Leading scientists, toxicologists and dieticians debunk common chemical misconceptions People are still being misled by chemical myths.
This needs to stop. We urge everyone to stop repeating misconceptions about chemicals. The presence of a chemical isn’t a reason for alarm. 10 Scientific Ideas That Scientists Wish You Would Stop Misusing. 5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted. So, the headlines say somebody else has died due to video game addiction. Yes, it's Korea again. 5 Ways Stores Use Science to Trick You Into Buying Crap. A big chunk of the world economy runs on human weakness. Peer pressure, vanity, insecurity, the fact that we just cannot resist the sight of melted cheese -- all of these will make us fork over our cash. And really, we're fine with that.
A Lunar Discovery Reveals The Secret To Building Deflector Shields. Illusion tricks you into thinking these celebrities are downright hideous. Genetic Manipulation: The First 50,000 Years. I Can't Figure Out Whether This College Study is Sexist or Not. The Diderot Effect Makes You Want to Consume, Consume, Consume. A Drug That Could Destroy Political Movements. Scientists Say They Need Philosophers to Continue Their Research. Wait, hasn't thousands of years of philosophickal work answered these questions already? I get that you're trying to make a funny, but a lot of folks who purport to be pro-science (and one would assume, pro-knowledge) could use a grounding in philosophy to better understand their own positions.
In general, philosophy is less concerned with providing answers than with preserving the questions and shedding light on the positions one can take. For instance, a lot of people presenting themselves as skeptics or atheists (even when theism is a non sequitur to the topic at hand) are in fact espousing philosophical Materialism, and an unconscious and poorly reasoned strain of Materialism, at that. The Heinz Dilemma Might Reveal That Morality Is Meaningless. I don't know where you get the idea that morality is chaos. Morality has become increasingly logical over the millennia as people have become more sophisticated. Kohlberg was comparing moral logic to the cognitive development that Piaget studied. I think part of it may have been that if you want to teach moral logic logically, you need to know what level of logic people are at. He also found that people are attracted to the logic one or two levels above the level they understand.
Preliterate societies never went above Kohlberg's stages 1 and 2 (based on my reading of a lot of early texts, e.g. Can Animal Behavior Help Us Understand Empathy and Dehumanization? Here's how city life is actually affecting your health. "Going with the Crowd" Causes Us to Make the Wrong Choices. "Going with the herd makes us feel safe, but herd behavior can go very wrong.