Except for a very few people who know everything, nobody knows in detail how the universe started or what happened between then and now. But we’ve been given many interesting suggestions. Some, biblical in nature, tell take-it-leave-it stories. Others offer some combination of evidence and logical reasoning. John Baez‘s majestic “The Earth—for Physicists” appeared in […]
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How to tell a story
Tim Radford, science editor of the Guardian ’til recently, mastered the art of telling a gripping, good story — no matter how tough the topic. One day Tim wrote some notes about how to do it. Here’s the start of his “Manifesto for the simple scribe” (to see the whole list, click on the link): […]
Pepsi is a new Mythbusters, he says
Who is a new Mythbusters — meticulously debunking pernicious (or just plain silly) myths about science? A report by William Weir in the Hartford Courant — in his profile of Pepsi’s science laboratory (which is in New Haven, Connecticut), reveals the secret: Eric Milgram, senior fellow at the lab, used to work in the pharmaceutical […]
13 unclean to 1 clean: TV cooking
Doug Powell‘s Barfblog highlighted an unappetizing study (by Powell and colleagues) about the food safety practices visible on TV cooking shows: “Spot the Mistake: Television Cooking Shows as a Source of Food Safety Information,” Mathiasen, L.A., Chapman, B.J., Lacroix, B.J. and Powell, D.A., Food Protection Trends, vol. 24, no. 5, May 1, 2004, pp. 328-334. […]