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Homeopathy really doesn’t work

A couple of years ago, I re-posted an old article of mine about homeopathy discussing its ludicrous claims, its feeble attempts to provide a scientific explanation for those claims, and basically pointing out that no solid evidence has ever been found ...

From DAVID BRADLEY, Sciencebase,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: National Health Service

Latest science headlines

Time to bring you up to date on the latest science headlines I’ve put together for other sites this last couple of weeks, so here’s a quick round-up: I also report on yet another “omics”, in which conservators take a leaf out of the biologists’ ...

From DAVID BRADLEY, Sciencebase,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

Genetically engineered heavy metal fans

The wastewater released from industry often contains high levels of toxic heavy metals, which can kill organisms, damage ecosystems, and accumulate in the foodchain. Electroplating, lead smelting, mining, and countless other processes produce enormous ...

From DAVID BRADLEY, Sciencebase,  13 Nov 2009

Juggling cancer nano news

Latest news reports from yours truly on Spectroscopynow.com Juggling matters on the brain – UK scientists have used magnetic resonance imaging to reveal that learning a complex task like juggling can causes changes in the white matter in the brain. The ...

From DAVID BRADLEY, Sciencebase,  12 Nov 2009

Berlin Wall falls in Australia

Twenty years ago today, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I lay on a bed in a cramped backpackers’ hostel in the Katherine Gorge National Park (now Nitmiluk), in Australia’s Northern Territory, watching news of the fall of the Berlin Wall (now rubble). ...

From DAVID BRADLEY, Sciencebase,  9 Nov 2009

Alchemical Anomalies

In the current issue of The Alchemist we learn how to stick methane molecules to metals without breaking carbon-hydrogen bonds and how to make impossible carbene catalysts without the usual prerequisite of an attendant metal centre. Another seeming ...

From DAVID BRADLEY, Sciencebase,  5 Nov 2009

Twitter science list categories

The manually compiled Scientwists list of science people on Twitter grew from around 100 of my contacts in January 2009 to almost 700 members, who asked to join or who retweeted the link as of October. Justin Reid helped automate the inclusion of bios ...

From DAVID BRADLEY, Sciencebase,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

My Whole Cell Twitter Interview

Laura Bonetta wrote an excellent article for the science journal Cell recently in which she quoted various science types who use Twitter on the subject of whether or not scientists should be tweeting. It’s a topic I’ve discussed more generally ...

From DAVID BRADLEY, Sciencebase,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  LinkedIn Corp,  FriendFeed,  Wordpress

Categories for science tweeps

Okay. Okay. Pressure was on to categorise my scientwist list…so I’ve made a start. First off, the spillover (lots of tweeps in the T to Z group from the TweepML.org version of my scientwist list, which has 650 members of thereabouts) have now each been ...

From DAVID BRADLEY, Sciencebase,  3 Nov 2009

Scientists on Twitter

However, just as I migrated the old manual list to Tweepml.org to help automate bio and avatar updates, Twitter announced the release of its own lists system. As far as I can tell Twitter lists are now public knowledge (I no longer see the request not ...

From DAVID BRADLEY, Sciencebase,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

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