http://www.realclearscience.com/ en Copyright 2010 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:37:08 -0400 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 19 May 2013 22:32:03 -0400 05/20/2013/00/00/00 Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you’re starting to do something about it. This cannot continue.Sure, there’s always been talk of health in America. We often encourage it. The thing is, we only want you to think about and talk about health in a certain way—equating health with how you look, instead of outcomes like quality of life and reduced disease risk.]]>http://www.realclearscience.com/2013/05/20/consumers_please_don039t_start_eating_healthy_253086.html?utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=rsshttp://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/dear-american-consumers-please-dont-start-eating-healthfully-sincerely-the-food-industry/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/05/19/dear-american-consumers-please-dont-start-eating-healthfully-sincerely-the-food-industry/ 100253086 AM Update Patrick Mustain, SciAm Consumers: Please Don't Start Eating Healthy Sun, 19 May 2013 22:40:21 -0400 05/20/2013/00/00/00 The manned space program was once like Green Bay Packers tickets "” the thing just sold itself. You've got the spacemen, we've got the eyeballs. Workplaces came to a stop and TVs were rolled into classrooms not just for an Al Shepard or a John Glenn, but for Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon going up aboard Gemini 11. Know about that one? Of course you don't. But everyone did back then.]]>http://www.realclearscience.com/2013/05/20/governments_can_learn_from_a_singing_spaceman_253085.html?utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=rsshttp://science.time.com/2013/05/19/lessons-from-the-singing-spaceman-what-governments-can-learn-from-chris-hadfield/?iid=sci-main-leadhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://science.time.com/2013/05/19/lessons-from-the-singing-spaceman-what-governments-can-learn-from-chris-hadfield/?iid=sci-main-lead 100253085 AM Update Jeffrey Kluger, Time Governments Can Learn from a Singing Spaceman Sun, 19 May 2013 22:18:47 -0400 05/20/2013/00/00/00 Most people associate brain drain with developing nations. The idea being: a country that can’t support its most talented minds will lose them to places that can. Most don’t come back. That’s now happening in southern Europe. Two cases just this week showed how the need to save five figures in salaries now could cost cash-strapped nations nine or 10 figures in valuable research down the line.]]>http://www.realclearscience.com/2013/05/20/europe039s_austerity_drives_out_talented_scientists_253084.html?utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=rsshttp://www.psmag.com/politics/what-cant-it-do-europeans-austerity-policies-now-giving-the-world-anti-matter-clones-58050/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.psmag.com/politics/what-cant-it-do-europeans-austerity-policies-now-giving-the-world-anti-matter-clones-58050/ 100253084 AM Update Marc Herman, PSMag Europe's Austerity Drives Out Talented Scientists Sun, 19 May 2013 22:01:50 -0400 05/20/2013/00/00/00 The prospect of a deep sea "gold rush" opening a controversial new frontier for mining on the ocean floor has moved a step closer.The United Nations has published its first plan for managing the extraction of so-called "nodules" - small mineral-rich rocks - from the seabed.A technical study was carried out by the UN's International Seabed Authority - the body overseeing deep sea mining.]]>http://www.realclearscience.com/2013/05/20/moving_towards_a_deep_sea_mining_039gold_rush039_253082.html?utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=rsshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22546875http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22546875 100253082 AM Update David Shukman, BBC Moving Towards a Deep Sea Mining 'Gold Rush' Sun, 19 May 2013 23:08:54 -0400 05/20/2013/00/00/00 Did you know that working around a certain chemical can make your jaw glow green and have to be chopped off? Not your teeth. Not your bones. Not your head. Your jaw. Learn what happens when biochemistry gets terrifyingly specific.Around the mid-1800s the first instances of "phossy jaw," cropped up. It wasn't called phossy jaw at first.]]>http://www.realclearscience.com/2013/05/20/scary_phenomenon_makes_your_jaw_glow_green_253089.html?utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=rsshttp://io9.com/the-terrifyingly-specific-phenomenon-that-makes-your-ja-506308553http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://io9.com/the-terrifyingly-specific-phenomenon-that-makes-your-ja-506308553 100253089 AM Update Esther Inglis-Arkell, io9 Scary Phenomenon Makes Your Jaw Glow Green Sun, 19 May 2013 23:18:02 -0400 05/20/2013/00/00/00 Alterations to the usual glass production process, such as putting the material under stress, can introduce effects that linger even after the material hardens. While manufacturers have long exploited this phenomenon to strengthen glass, a new theory aims to get closer to understanding why it happens.]]>http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/05/20/what_doesnt_break_gorilla_glass_makes_it_stronger_106537.htmlhttp://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/05/20/what_doesnt_break_gorilla_glass_makes_it_stronger_106537.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/05/20/what_doesnt_break_gorilla_glass_makes_it_stronger_106537.html 200253090 AM Update Sophie Bushwick, Inside Science How Glass 'Remembers' What Hit It Sun, 19 May 2013 22:43:15 -0400 05/20/2013/00/00/00 Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.Now, unlikely heroes may be coming to the rescue to prevent similar tragedies: sugar-craving honeybees.]]>http://www.realclearscience.com/2013/05/20/honeybees_trained_to_find_land_mines_253087.html?utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=rsshttp://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_CROATIA_BEES_VS_MINES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-05-19-07-33-19http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_CROATIA_BEES_VS_MINES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-05-19-07-33-19 100253087 AM Update D. Stojanovic & D. Bandic, AP Honeybees Trained to Find Land Mines Sun, 19 May 2013 22:56:11 -0400 05/20/2013/00/00/00 Twenty-five years after pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly unleashed Prozac on the red-braced 80s, SSRIs are still the world's most popular antidepressants. They are swallowed by more than 40 million people, from Beijing to Beirut, knitting a web of happiness from New York to New Caledonia. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, of which Prozac is the best known, are the defining drug of the modern age, the crutch of choice for the worried well.]]>http://www.realclearscience.com/2013/05/20/does_prozac_help_artists_be_creative_253088.html?utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=rsshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/may/19/does-prozac-help-artists-be-creativehttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/may/19/does-prozac-help-artists-be-creative 100253088 AM Update Alex Preston, The Guardian Does Prozac Help Artists Be Creative? Sun, 19 May 2013 21:57:12 -0400 05/20/2013/00/00/00 ack when Einstein first proposed his theory of General Relativity, his revolutionary picture of the Universe was met with a mix of curiosity, awe, and intense skepticism. It isn’t every day that your most cherished of all physical theories — the theory of Newtonian Gravity that had ruled the cosmos for nearly two-and-a-half centuries — gets challenged by a newcomer.]]>http://www.realclearscience.com/2013/05/20/einstein039s_greatest_blunder_was_a_big_one_253081.html?utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=rsshttp://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/05/17/einsteins-greatest-blunder-was-really-a-blunder/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/05/17/einsteins-greatest-blunder-was-really-a-blunder/ 100253081 AM Update Ethan Siegel, ScienceBlogs Einstein's Greatest Blunder Was a Big One Sun, 19 May 2013 22:15:03 -0400 05/20/2013/00/00/00 Just like Sylvia Plath and Queen Victoria, Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman — champion of scientific culture, graphic novel hero, crusader for integrity, holder of the key to science, adviser of future generations, bongo player — was a surprisingly gifted semi-secret artist. He started drawing at the age of 44 in 1962, shortly after developing the visual language for his famous Feynman diagrams, after a series of amicable arguments about art vs. science with his artist-friend Jirayr “Jerry” Zorthian — the same friend to whom ...]]>http://www.realclearscience.com/2013/05/20/richard_feynman039s_racy_sketches_253083.html?utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=rsshttp://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/17/richard-feynman-ofey-sketches-drawings/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/17/richard-feynman-ofey-sketches-drawings/ 100253083 AM Update Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Richard Feynman's Racy Sketches