Entries tagged with science

Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals
(tags: Interesting Publish or Perish academia culture science university )
Metal 3D printing and six key shifts in the 'second industrial revolution'
'From a 3D printer that you can build from stuff lying around the house to 3D printing steel, food or plastic in the home'
(tags: 3D printing awesome interesting living in the future technology )
Growing Up Unvaccinated - Voices for Vaccines
Someone growing up on a super-healthy diet/lifestyle, but still getting lots of vaccinateable diseases
(tags: vaccination health culture healthcare )
BBC disciplines Graham Norton for wearing AIDS awareness ribbon on chat show · PinkNews.co.uk
Do you make a list of approved symbols? Essentially the question is where do you draw the line on what stuff presenters are allowed to wear and thus show their support (and arguably plug) - e.g. political party rosettes during an election.
(tags: image BBC AIDS rules symbols culture the code is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules )
Can young people influence Government policy by voting? | ampp3d
Politicians woo the grey vote, because it makes a difference. They shit on the young people, because they don't vote.
(tags: voting democracy UK westminster benefits age )

BBC Blogs - What's behind the 'coldest winter for 100 years' headline?
From 2012, but the Express are doing it again this time
(tags: interesting science lies lies damn lies and statistics journalism money )
Texas, other death penalty states scramble for lethal injection drugs - CNN.com
'A federal civil complaint in Texas claims the defendants may have falsified prescriptions, lied to pharmacies and perhaps even broken the law, but they're not drug runners. They're officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, responsible for executing death row inmates.'
(tags: law crime death death penalty America drugs )
BBC News - Doctors and nurses may face jail for neglect
(tags: NHS UK crime fear healthcare law politics )

A £5,000 cap on donations?
'Manifesto at 2015 general election expected to include pledge to 'take the big money out of politics' - but it has yet to reach a consensus with Tories and Lib Dems'
(tags: party funding politics posttofacebook money westminster UK interesting Labour party )
Bacteria from slim people could help treat obesity, study finds | Society | The Guardian
'Experiments show microbes from thin or fat people's intestines can cause mice to lose or gain weight'
(tags: posttofacebook via James Graham poo interesting health biology science )

World's slowest-moving drop caught on camera at last : Nature News & Comment
'Once-forgotten 'tar pitch' experiment yields results after seven decades.' Like watching paint dry TIMES A MILLION
(tags: history SCIENCE!!! posttofacebook awesome science )

Children of unmarried parents to just run around doing murders
'ALL children born after 2022 will be born out of wedlock, and lead a life of devoid of any morals'
(tags: silly posttofacebook parody amusing children The Daily Mash marriage culture parenting )
A study of the Galaxy Song by Eric Idle
"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space ..."
(tags: music posttofacebook amusing Monty Python interesting science )
Russia Says It Will Arrest Openly Gay Tourists | Travel and Escape
'Putin claims the law doesn’t discriminate against LGBT people, but rather—in an argument riddled with faulty logic—is there to “protect children from pedophilia.”'
(tags: law posttofacebook discrimination people suck bigotry Russia wtf lgbt what the everliving fuck )