Wikipedia’s Women Woes

Wikipedia’s Women Woes

Last year I wrote about somewhat silly claims that Wikipedia must be sexist because it had poor female representation. Wikipedia is an open, voluntary community, I argued, some people are just not…
Eugenics - Coming To A Rich Country Near You

Eugenics - Coming To A Rich Country Near You

Eugenics, the darling of elite, educated progressives 100 years ago in their quest to create Utopia, has been out of favor since those crazy Germans took it too far in the late 1930s, but there is…
Food Fear, Food Labels, And My Two Cents

Food Fear, Food Labels, And My Two Cents

If you want to scare somebody, convince them that there is a remote chance of danger in their food, water or medicine. Even if there is no evidence to back up the claim, people respond strongly to…
Future of bioenergy:

Future of bioenergy:

 In a number of scenarios of the global food and agriculture system in 2030, we examine to what extent increases in livestock and crop productivity, and changes in human diets, may expand the…
Figuring Out The Mind Of The Psychopath - Or Not

Figuring Out The Mind Of The Psychopath - Or Not

Are psychopaths made in a certain way and unable to change? Perhaps, says Aina Gullhaugen, a psychologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, but there is a discrepancy between the…
Blind Man’s Cane Sees DNA Double Helix

Blind Man’s Cane Sees DNA Double Helix

This is an almost verbatim copy of a press release from the London Centre for nanotechnology. When Watson, Crick and Wilkins discovered the DNA double helix nearly sixty years ago, they based their…