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Two Slits Are Better Than One
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 09/05/2007
The article does not claim to have resolved the issue, read it over again and check out the discussion with the research author, Prof Wiseman. (see comment)
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The Müller Formula (or: Predictable Color Preferences)
Comment in News (2 diggs, 1 reply) - on 09/03/2007
I don't get it, those supposedly "ugly" combinations look nice to me (no, I'm not colour blind). Meanwhile, here's how to use a colour hex code to earn brownie points with your partner - http://www.sciencetext.com/compliment-your-partner-with-hex-code.htm … (see comment)
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Chocolate Does Not Contain Caffeine
Comment in News (5 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/03/2007
I've searched PubMed for papers about caffeine in chocolate, there are plenty, and quote from the UK's Institute of Food Research on the small, but definite amounts of caffeine in chocolate. Why is this late 2001 paper with a dubious claim on Digg at all? … (see comment)
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The Right Way To Fix Inaccurate Wikipedia Articles
Comment in News (2 diggs, 1 reply) - on 08/08/2007
Wikipedia is not a valid journalistic source for fact checking and many editors will tell their writers as much. Despite the best efforts of those who have built it, you simply cannot trust any given entry at any given time to be accurate. In some sense, … (see comment)
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10 Ways to Instantly Build Self Confidence
Comment in News (1 digg, 1 reply) - on 07/26/2007
You could just try an oxytocin spray - http://weirdscience.ca/2007/07/19/shyness-be-gone/ (see comment)
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The 6 Most Prominent Global Warming Deniers
Comment in News (-1 diggs, 0 replies) - on 07/18/2007
Didn't the UN panel talk of 90% certainty? 90%, so there's a one in ten chance that they're wrong? One in ten is pretty good horseracing odds isn't it? (see comment)
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The perpetual myth of free energy
Comment in News (7 diggs, 2 replies) - on 07/10/2007
Regardless, a vacuum is not "nothing", check out Heisenberg, there are particle-antiparticle pairs popping and and out of existence perpetually in even the highest vacuum, you cannot avoid them, they would ultimately slow the motion of even the most frict … (see comment)
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Is Darwin due for an upgrade?
Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 06/28/2007
Darwin 2.0 anyone? (see comment)
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20 Ways to Use LinkedIn Productively
Comment in News (-7 diggs, 0 replies) - on 06/15/2007
Nice, been trying to figure out what on earth to do with those dozens of network connections...now I know. Time for a spot of procrastination... (see comment)
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Scientific journals reject office 2007
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 06/08/2007
Staff and students at Imperial College London are rebelling against M$ products too http://sf-ic.org/aims.rhtml (see comment)
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MIT Cracks The Code of Déjà Vu
Comment in News (-7 diggs, 0 replies) - on 06/08/2007
I swear I've read this comment before. (see comment)
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Calculate pi by throwing frozen hot dogs
Comment in News (-4 diggs, 3 replies) - on 06/01/2007
Comes out as 2-4 if you do this in Canada, hey? (see comment)
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The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century
Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/28/2007
Alongside the insidious environmental disaster of arsenic poisoning, is the endemic fluorosis seen on the Indian sub-continent and as discussed by Chakraborti and colleagues http://www.soesju.org/arsenic/arsenicContents.htm?f=misc_crip1a.htm … (see comment)
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Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health
Comment in News (3 diggs, 1 reply) - on 05/27/2007
Chemophobic scaremongering? I think so... http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/toxic-chemicals-in-soda.html (see comment)
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Common soft drink additive may cause damage similar to alcohol abuse
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 05/27/2007
Yet more toxic, chemophobic scaremongering? I think so - http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/toxic-chemicals-in-soda.html (see comment)
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Sleep Adjustment - Gain 10 days per year
Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/25/2007
There was some interesting research this week into the underlying mechanisms of circadian rhythms. The first showed how shining light on to a fungus makes it apply sunscreen, while the second discussed the positive effects of Viagra on treating hamsters w … (see comment)
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Darth Vader's Psyche: What Went Wrong?
Comment in News (6 diggs, 11 replies) - on 05/23/2007
At best the use of this fictional character in a scientific treatise is a misguided publicity stunt, at worst it suggests a complete lack of sensitivity on the part of those involved in the research who have provided nothing but yet more fodder for the me … (see comment)
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The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century
Comment in News (7 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/22/2007
It may be strange but there are even more insidious natural disasters still ongoing that are affecting hundreds of thousands of people and very little is being done to address the problem - http://www.sciencebase.com/arsenic.html … (see comment)
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Pharma Wont Fund Cancer Cure, But You Can. Cant Donate? DIGG!
Comment in News (-1 diggs, 0 replies) - on 05/21/2007
As has been alluded to above, DCA is not a panacea, no single intervention will "cure nearly all types of cancer". Cancer is not a single disease but an umbrella term for a range of diseases, albeit linked by the facile description of runaway cell multipl … (see comment)
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14 Great Ways You Can Use OpenID Right Now
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 05/16/2007
Isn't OpenID decentralized? (see comment)
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