Statheads Speak: Derek Jeter, You Stink!
Once upon a time, the only fielding statistic listed on the back of baseball cards was fielding percentage, a simple calculation of the number of assists and putouts a player records divided by total chances. But this only tells you how ...
She’s Already Got Science - Women, Skepticism And The Need For ...
Project Exploration is working to literally change the face of science - one student at a time. Project Exploration is a Chicago-based, nonprofit science education organization dedicated to bringing the excitement of discovery to the ...
NASA Hosts Next Generation Exploration Conference
Paul_graham_photo_ngec2 Twitter feeds, Second Life based attendees, and post Apollo birthdates were the norm at a unique NASA Ames hosted conference this week. For many of the young rocket scientists, engineers and scientists, ...
Housekeeping
Cheryl has been busy editing some of the back-end code for the site. Hopefully this means an end to the annoying “database error” messages. However, no software is ever perfect. If you happen to notice anything odd, please let us know.
Of Big Hearts
Slightly late for Valentine’s Day, we have an article about hearts. This, however, is not about romance, it is about love of a different kind. John Hertz has kindly allowed us to publish an article about the Big Heart Award that he ...
Quotes of interest - science news stories.
We have been told in science news stories since the early 1990s that biologists long neglected the potential significance of noncoding DNA. (Sadly, this is in line with the claims made by creationists, who claim that "Darwinism" is to ...
Brainscanning babies
And if you caught my segment about fMRI lie detectors on Wired Science last year, or if you’ve ever had one yourself, you’ll know that getting one of these scans involves being stuffed into a tube the size of a coffin. ...
Homeschool science fair at HarMar
Yes this is the weekend that the abortion travesty called the 2008 Home School Science Fair is held at Har Mar Mall in Roseville Minnesota. I stopped by briefly, until my protege had a meltdown got a time-out and we had to leave. ...
Obama, Clinton, and Contingency in Political Science
The bloggers of “The Monkey Cage” have invited me to be a guest post-er, and I’m delighted to accept – though I find this a curiously intimidating medium, unlike other types of writing that I am more used to. ...
R-MC students learn science by cooking up tasty experiments
What turns a hunk of chocolate into truffles that guarantee a second date? Magic. Only kidding: It's chemistry. But today, we're not talking Bunsen burners and beakers. We're talking about the dinner table, not the periodic table. ...