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Pangolins Use Rocks in Lieu of Teeth

31 May 2018

Pangolins, or scaly anteaters, are amazing little mammals. There are eight species of them, and they are the only living creatures in their order of Pholidota. Spread throughout Asia and Africa,...

Correactology庐 or How to Identify a Pseudoscience

10 May 2018

What makes something 鈥減seudoscientific鈥? The answer to this question鈥攐f how to discriminate between genuine science and a wolf in science鈥檚 clothing鈥攃an be very complex, as it actually falls under...

Cancer: What Scientists Know Vs. What the Public Believes

3 May 2018

Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft wrote in Supernatural Horror in Literature that 鈥渢he oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown鈥....

Performance Enhancing...Headphones?

24 Apr 2018

Sport headphones are usually designed to be to be small, light, waterproof, and wireless so that they don鈥檛 get in the way while working out. Given this design standard, a pair of bulky over-ear...

Aristotle: The First Real Scientist

17 Apr 2018

What an amazing man Aristotle was!聽He lived in the third century BC yet he was so influential that his ideas dominated western scientific thought for almost two thousand years.聽This is especially...

Homeopathy: Aware or Beware?

12 Apr 2018

April 10-16聽is 鈥淲orld Homeopathy Awareness Week鈥 with the stated aim of 鈥渃elebrating homeopaths and those who have been healed with homeopathy.鈥 While I don鈥檛 think anyone has ever been healed with...

Science Is Not Just for Kids

29 Mar 2018

A persistent idea in the minds of the lay public is that science is for kids, and a recent survey does nothing to reassure me that this saddening and restrictive notion is being overturned.

God, Glycerine, Flavouring, and Kosher Coca-Cola

27 Mar 2018

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