New Estimate for Climate Change-Related Casualties Released, Not Pretty.
A European humanitarian aid consultancy, DARA, has released a study that claims to define the various ways that 100…
Today in Dubious Trends: Are Spaniards Really Resorting to Eating Garbage?
Yesterday, a prominently placed story in the New York Times claimed that Spain’s economy has gotten so bad,…
Data Dump: Lance Armstrong Looks Even More Screwed This Morning
Former teammate tells all to the Guardian. Plus, what do the finishing times up the Tour's most fearsome mountain tell us about Armstrong's performance?
Today in Research Video: Last Tango in Paris as Performed by Praying Mantises
This stunning video of a praying mantis making a meal of another praying mantis, linked to yesterday in…
Killer Whales are Momma’s Boys
And apple pie Via Science 2.0: Marine biologists have determined that male killer whales have an apron strings…
Should India Build a Beachfront Nuclear Power Plant?
The Debate: How to calculate, and engineer, for risks like this Last week, somewhere between two and eight…
Moon Above Politics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jAlE_HLDj8 This morning’s announcement that NASA wants to build a manned moon base by 2017 suggests Democrats and Republicans…
Regarding Libya
An open thread: The attack that killed US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three of his staff appears to…
Caring for Aging Parents Will Age You
Via MedicalExpress: Just in time for the largest generation in American history to retire, Case Western University researchers…