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An article at TBD.com by Amanda Hess is about HIV-positive black gay men.  Okay, so far so good.   But it had an important typo, namely a key letter left out of a word, and the correction…

This article has basically nothing to do with baseball or Barry Zito's curveball so you can stop reading if that is your interest - or check out   The Science Of Baseball: What Is The Fastest A…

Yesterday's Guardian featured this gem, "This is a news website article about a scientific paper", by Martin Robbins.  It begins: "In the standfirst I will make a fairly obvious pun about the…

Behold true tales of procrastination!  Learn whether to get a PhD!  Or just kick back and enjoy fall.  Enjoy another science webcomics interlude!  The first two are 'long form',…

What do you get when you combine gravity, Bernoulli's principle, and a social media giant? An easy-to-understand explanation of how planes fly, courtesy of Facebook users. And you were worried about…

Tom Scott is a geek comedian who has been described as a "sometime internet funny man" by The Register has come to the rescue of science journalism with a list of warnings they can go ahead and…

Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier Retreat Scaremongering A guest post by my friend Lai Ying at the Greenwich Institute of Toxicology. Global warming is a get-rich-quick scam invented by Al Gore when he…

While passively watching an episode of South Park,1 my spidey sense tingled - something was amiss, and it wasn't the barely surviving buttons on Cartman's pants. I grabbed the remote from the huz and…

A witty scientist friend of mine asked me," What can an atom and a void can do with us?" I replied, "Atomic world lies far below and since we cannot see the atoms, their movements, atoms and void…