Conveniently, the Law of Unintended Consequences that I was pointing out in a previous posting was demonstrated today by a genuine, high-achieving PhD-type working in a legitimate cutting-edge scientific organisation. The timing is perfect to point out the principle of the law, and how mankind is continually tripping over it.
Just as I mentioned yesterday, mankind […]
The headline of this story over at www.sciencedaily.com really does say it all - “Eating Less May Not Extend Human Life: Caloric Restriction May Benefit Only Obese Mice”.
The money quotes from the researcher is:
“Today there are a lot of very healthy people who look like skeletons because they bought into this,”
followed by
“The whole thing […]
Whether or not this discovery turns out to be the first real proof of extra-terrestrial life remains to be seen. The methane plumes observed by earth-bound scientists back in 2003 could be the result of some living things living under the soil, or they could be the result of some geological process. It’s going to […]
The story here isn’t the actual story. The story to which this headline was attached was really a rather benign piece about how heavier that average stars in globular star clusters which appear to be younger that the rest of the stars in the cluster. The presence of these stars was a bit of a […]
In the continuing unraveling of the theory of global warming, an academic in Great Britain, Faezeh Nick, has established that the computer models that predict a massive meltdown of the glaciers in Greenland thus raising sea levels substantially don’t fit the observed data. He does point out, however, that the computer model that predicts that […]
Well, it had to happen. The people who want to control your life in every respect have topped themselves - in this article scientists have put forth the idea that third-hand smoke is a killer too. Yep, you read right - third-hand smoke. Third-hand smoke, for those of your who aren’t aware, is the tobacco […]
For anyone who is an avid science reader, this article isn’t really news, but for the vast majority of people in the world, this is probably the first time you’ve seen it. The quick overview of the story is that a group of researchers have found microscopic evidence from places scattered around the North American […]
