Dietary guidelines used to be a relatively easy process. They were considered authoritative, mainstream media dutifully portrayed them as such because they had government backing, and people obeyed.…

Insects exhibit breathing patterns called discontinuous gas-exchange cycles that include periods of little to no release of carbon dioxide to the environment. Researchers who studied the respiratory…

Brain training has come into the spotlight with Tuesday’s announcement by the Federal Trade Commission that the popular website Lumosity will be forced to pay a $2 million settlement for making false…

Farmers jumped in because higher prices due to clever marketing meant higher profits - but demand for feed caused expenses to rise.  That has meant consolidation because smaller farmers cannot…

Lisa Jackson is leaving the EPA, she has announced, and virtually no one is going to be disappointed. The EPA was created to be anti-business so no one can really claim that being anti-business is a…

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Science writing resists metaphors because no one seems to a Science journalists don't think much of science bloggers (1) and they have a good reason, at least given the bulk of blogging.  It is…

Progressives shriek "false equivalence!" every time the numerous anti-science positions of people on their side of the aisle are mentioned, but that is a reactionary defense mechanism - a large part…

The United Kingdom Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation has  http://blogs.bbsrc.ac.uk/index.php/2014/04/practical-school-science-is-v... Before a bunch of people go off on some…

A short history of IQ - it wasn't the worst thing from 1920s education theory we are still stuck with What to do?  If there is no metric, there is no way to educate http://www.thestar.com/living…