Guest Thinkers — December 12, 2010

Myspace – The Devil?

Watch The Daily Show’s Short on Myspace.Just hilarious… As a recovering myspace adict, I actually think Myspace has been brought to us by the devil and no longer use it, but when the man’s right on emo rock, he’s right on emo rock.

good for a larf.

Starts With A Bang

Ask Ethan: Why is there no antigravity?

In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can't there be an "antigravity" force?

An old black and white photo of a man practicing phrenology on a bust.

Neuropsych

The lies that skulls told us

The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.

A black and white photo of a building that has been destroyed in New Jersey.

13.8

The most important lesson about being a scientist I learned in New Jersey

"I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic."

An visualization of dark matter across the universe

Hard Science

Scientists rule out a popular alternative theory to dark matter

The paper does not prove the existence of dark matter, but it mostly eliminates a rival theory called Modified Newtonian Dynamics.

Black and white photo of a woman holding a stack of papers, illustrating Parkinson's Law.

Business

Overcome your fear of deadlines with Parkinson’s law

How to figure out the right amount of time for any project.

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