On the real possibility of human differences
I have discussed the reality that many areas of psychology are susceptible enough to false positives that the ideological preferences of the researchers come to the fore. CBC …
I have discussed the reality that many areas of psychology are susceptible enough to false positives that the ideological preferences of the researchers come to the fore. CBC …
One of the things I’m interested in is the perception by some that self-identified conservatives can mobilize better as a collective unit on the American political scene. To test that…
It’s been a while…what’s going on with Google+? I think we can conclude it isn’t a Facebook killer in anything like the medium term. After moving away from Facebook I started posting again because almost…
Bionic contact lenses—which would display navigation data, personal emails, or any other sort of info superimposed on the world before your eyes—have long been mainstays of science fiction. Over the past several years, researchers have been working…
What’s the News: Parents going broke to pay for their offspring’s braces and orthodontistry can finally blame somebody besides their mildly malformed children: our farmer ancestors. A study published this week in the Proceedings of the National …
When it comes to acetaminophen (aka Tylenol or paracetamol), taking slightly too much for a few days may be more deadly than taking way too much all at once. A study…
An interview with the creator of this year’s Innovation of the Year This year, for the first time, a camera has been awarded PopSci’s Innovation of the Year . The Lytro Light-Field Camera, a $400 gadget that allows photographers…
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Our good friends over at Popular Photography just posted a lengthy expert test of the iPhone 4S ‘s camera. It’s been called one of the best phone cameras ever released, and not just by Apple–but how does it stack up against point-and-shoots, superzooms, …
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How does an electric Phantom feel? Like a Phantom One of the highlights of the LA Auto Show was a chance to drive the Rolls Royce 102EX, a one-of-a-kind electric Phantom. Powered by two 145-kilowatt motors…
A new household servant robot made by the world’s largest manufacturer of industrial ‘bots can help people with disabilities or limited mobility move things around. It’s controlled…
Researchers at the Ishikawa-Oku lab at the University of Tokyo have gone one-up on augmented reality with a system they call “invoked computing.” Basically, that means computers will be embedded everywhere in your …
The Inkling is a digital sketching tool from Wacom that lets you create drawings in a notebook, sketchpad or even the back of a napkin and transfer them directly to your Mac. It uses a clip-on…
How Windows protects your PC Your Windows computer should, if you’re sensible, already have formidable defences in the form of advanced anti-malware. However, we’re now entering …
Best App Store image editing apps Manage, share and edit your photos with ease with the help of these helpful apps from the Mac App Store… 01. ImageConvert …
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week Flame Synthesis of Graphene Films in Open Environments
While inventing a device to ease phantom limb pain, Katherine Bomkamp, then in high school, found others to help her with the engineering.
On a review site for transport companies, it’s the company (not the consumer) that gets the final comment. And the Haggler wonders why.
LeBron James said he felt like his kids on Christmas Day, and the Clippers rookie Travis Leslie posted: “Crying tears of joy!”
Researchers at the MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces Group are prototyping new, novel and more natural ways for people to interact with computers and access and store information. Their innovations have been designed to improve and enrich our personal and professional lives, …
A host of events will be taking place in Europe for the five-day long Internet Week Europe festival. In Japan talented robots will be showing humans how they can help at Robots of the Future, and in America bloggers will share their passion for food at the…
The Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by Fedex. FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves to those in need and helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. See how.
With freshman David Ash assuming most of the starting quarterback duties for the Texas Longhorns, it’s hard not to imagine a bright future for the …
Fox News College Football Nation: Texas Tech Red Raiders ESPN (blog) The Big 12, while it was busy sorting itself out, showed Missouri a terrifying future of constantly …
THINQ.co.uk Future tech : tractor beams become reality PC Authority Star Trek coined the name ‘tractor beam’, but lasers that draw things in are already a reality. Tractor beams were first seen in the TV series Star Trek and pertain …
Hot Hardware Microsoft’s vision of everyday future tech (video) ZDNet (blog) In the future , devices like smartphones and tablets will reach the pinnacle of the “less, but better” ethos popularized by the design…
While my first column for Discover was on the multiverse, the second one is more down to Earth (as these things go): searching for new forces . Of course we are searching for new short-range forces at the Large …
You won’t find more mentally ill mice per square mile anywhere than in Bar Harbor, Maine. Mice who seem anxious or depressed, autistic or schizophrenic—they congregate here. Mice who model learning disabilities or anorexia; mice who hop around as though your …
A RadioAstron model points skyward in a Russian lab. Courtesy Astro Space Center Only in the Brobdingnagian world of radio telescopes is an 8,000-pound, 33-foot dish considered something of a runt. But while the new Russian space observatory, RadioAstron, is only a thirtieth the size of the largest radio telescopes…
Dienekes already mentioned it, but readers might be curious about the Ancient Roman DNA Project . Here are the details: I’m asking for $6,000 for this project, which will cover the cost of testing DNA from the 20 immigrants to Rome I found in my …
In the post below I stumbled upon a weird datum. Kuwait’s total fertility is now below 3 . The average estimates seem to be ~2.5 or so. This surprised me, as my impression was that Gulf Arab petroleum based states tended…
Last August I had a post up, The point mutation which made humanity , which suggested that it may be wrong to conceive of the difference between Neanderthals and the African humans which absorbed and replaced them ~35,000 years ago as a matter of extreme differences at specific…
Saint Mark’s basilica was where many Venetian polyphonic works had their debut performances, but the reverb presented a puzzle for historians. Ah, the Renaissance—lots of deep thinkers, gorgeous art, busty maidens, fried dough…
What’s the news : Viking legend has it that sailors could hold up crystal sunstones to the sky to help them find their way. Turns out the legend…
What’s the News: Epidemiologists have long noticed that people with drug addictions often start out smoking cigarettes before moving on to harder stuff. Whether that’s because there’s something…
Our friends at Sound+Vision just posted a review of the Libratone Live, a curious, triangular, compact audio system that plays music from an iPad , iPhone , iPod …
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Amazon announced yet another perk for those who’ve taken the plunge into Amazon Prime today: The Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. Regular library ebooks have only recently become available on Kindle, and they’ve long been kind of a pain to import, so this seems to…
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It’s been hard in recent years to tell how seriously BMW takes electric cars. In 2009, BMW-owned Mini put 600 experimental electric Mini Coopers into test fleets, but the cars were clunky and the program was beset with logistical problems. GM and Nissan have both been selling electric cars …
The most controversial scientific topic of the past few decades–predicting the fate of the planet–gets a huge dose of data Before the International Panel on Climate Change launched its Data Distribution Centre (DDC) in 1998, researchers who needed climate-change projections had to get them from …
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Buying a motherboard: Fusion and Bulldozer Simple but complicated. That’s PC motherboards circa 2011. On the one hand, there are fewer players in the motherboard chipset market than ever. With Nvidia…
Fractal Design Define Mini: Overview The perfect home for your mATX or mini-ITX mobo could well be the Fractal Design Define Mini. It’s a …
Power up Media Center: Sharing and display It finally feels like we’re living in the future, there are indeed flying cars, people are getting robotic limbs and our insect …
The car is an engineering achievement, but it could easily be even more appealing. After a week of driving the new 2012 version of the Chevrolet Volt in the Boston area, I’ve reached three conclusions…
Attacks on the wisdom of loan guarantees could restrict nuclear reactor construction in most states. Politicians are drawing parallels between the $535 million federal loan guarantee issued to bankrupt solar manufacturer Solyndra and loan guarantees that the U.S. Department of Energy is offering to utilities building new…
