Category: science
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The Horrible Lives of Grad Students
Since I’m old, and the hair on the top of my head hasn’t turned gray yet (my goatee did long ago), I started to read an article claiming to have found the reason hair turns gray by researching the biology of the hair follicle as it ages. It was all pretty dull, and I was…
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Astronomy Made Simple
What We Know I love astronomy. Partly from reading a lot of science fiction as a youth, and partly because you get to make most of it up. All you really need to know is a little about heat, light, and gravity—and you already know about those—some of the simplest concepts of geometry (a sphere…
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Whatever Happened to Skepticism?
Science! is a big thing these days especially among politicians who insist that you have to listen to the experts because, presumably they know more than you do. Don’t trust your own common sense because that’s the kind of thing that told people that the earth was flat. Except, whoops, nobody ever believed that except…
Musings of a Restless Mind 