Is It Time For A Global Health Fund?

Is It Time For A Global Health Fund?

Governments of developing countries have done a fantastic job managing international aid money. Today, 44% of international health aid money cannot be traced in the budgets of the receiving countries…
Another Way To Annoy The Relatives

Another Way To Annoy The Relatives

A recent LiveScience article entitled "Ancestry Search Can Annoy Living Relatives" expressed the point that all the interest displayed in researching one's family tree could annoy relatives. …
Americans Critical Of Health Care Reform

Americans Critical Of Health Care Reform

A comprehensive review of national opinion polls taken before and after Congressional voting and when President Obama signed into law a major healthcare reform bill last month has found that the law'…
Cake v Pie: A Scientific Analysis

Cake v Pie: A Scientific Analysis

"I love cake.  Cake is wonderful.  But it is too easy to get caught up in the idea of cake.  When you compare the data, it is clear that pie is a better choice. " And so Hyperbole and…
The Unscientists 2010 awards

The Unscientists 2010 awards

The Unscientists 2010 awards Shamelessly stealing the Festival Of Idiots central theme and with no proper credit given to its originator, The Rugbyologist, the Chatter Box proudly announces The…
Philip Pullman on the Right to be Shocking

Philip Pullman on the Right to be Shocking

Here is an amusing quote from novelist Philip Pullman. At the 2010 Oxford Literature Festival, on the early afternoon of Palm Sunday, March 28th, in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre, Philip Pullman gave a…
Social Networking Benefits Real-Life Communities

Social Networking Benefits Real-Life Communities

Web sites that foster online communication and interaction are not merely vapid echo chambers of self-promotion, according to a new study in American Behavioral Scientist. In fact, just the opposite…
Help Me Solve A Mystery!

Help Me Solve A Mystery!

You probably think that because I started a hybrid social media/science media darling like Scientific Blogging, adored by many, I must know a lot of people.   Just the opposite is true.  I…