Science

Voyager vs Smartphones

Perceptive and made me chuckle. Meanwhile my smartphone will be lucky to survive 34 months, and is only able to receive commands from Earth if I hold it out of an upstairs window… Source

Debunking the sugar hyperactivity myth

And yet, I’m sure countless parents will rather trust their own anecdotal experience. Let’s cut to the chase: sugar doesn’t make kids hyper. There have been at least twelvetrials of various diets investigating different levels of sugar in children’s diets.  That’s more studies than are often done on drugs. None of them detected any differences in behavior between …

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The Breakthrough Institute: Why Energy Efficiency Does not Decrease Energy Consumption

We've done a number of energy-efficiency projects at our house over the last year. While it may help us lowering our own energy costs and usage, it'd be naive to think that it'll decrease overall energy consumption.  Harry Saunders has done the research to explain this effect, know as "the rebound effect". Varying degrees of …

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Britain says Intelligent Design is not Science

Its good to read that the UK Goverment sees no place for the chicanery that is Intelligent Design in its school’s science curriculum.  It has also defined "Intelligent Design", the idea that life is too complex to have arisen without the guiding hand of a greater intelligence, as a religion, along with "creationism".