Ross Pomeroy

Scientists are widely known for their inclination to drone on about esoteric topics in a language of jargon. But every so often, they can surprise us with conciseness. 

In the long term, a life-changing earthquake in America’s heartland is almost certainly inevitable.

We Earthlings have lots of growing up to do before we reach the shimmering standard of equality set by Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets. 

Richard Feynman: “Social science is an example of a science which is not a science… They follow the forms… but they don’t get any laws.”

Last fall, John Cisna — a science teacher from Des Moines, Iowa — ate nothing but McDonald’s for 90 days and wound up losing 37 pounds! Hold the mustard! How the heck can that be right?

Coca-Cola is by no means the first company to ignore inconvenient animal behavior facts, so we shouldn’t be too hard on them. To Coke’s credit, they do support polar bear research and conservation efforts. 

Faced with unfortunate facts or inconvenient truths? Here’s a handy guide for denying scientific consensus. 

The upright tail is probably the clearest way cats show their affection for us.

Have you ever considered all of the ways just a single poor night of sleep may be messing with you?

The more scientists discover about our prehistoric ancestors, the further they seem to fall down Alice’s Rabbit Hole. Things just get curiouser and curiouser.

Richard Feynman was struggling with an existential crisis only a member of the Manhattan Project could truly experience: “Put another way, what is the value of the science I had dedicated myself to–the thing I loved–when I saw what terrible things it could do? It was a question I had to answer.”  

Within some non-Western cultures, voice hearing is valued and it would not be seen as indicative of any illness at all. 

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there’s no place for it in the endeavor of science.

“There’s no such thing as a stupid question.” We’d now like to present eleven more, courtesy of the same esteemed panel of “logic-dodging” jokesters over at Reddit that came up with the original list. 

Ecological footprint measurements, as currently constructed and presented, are so misleading as to preclude their use in any serious science or policy context. 

Gender, like so many things, is occasionally in a gray area. And that’s okay.

Thanks to some scientific sleuthing courtesy of a dedicated toxicologist, nicotine may have to surrender its infamous position.

While hundreds of flossing studies have been conducted, many are plagued by potential issues of researcher bias, as well as poor experimental design. In the past decade, three systematic reviews sought to navigate these muddy waters.

Americans severely under-report how much food they eat, and this has affected decades of nutrition data. 

Since open access publishers are effectively paid up front, the more papers they accept, the more money they make.

Whether we concede it or not, humanity longs for its cosmic significant other. 

Since our ancestors supposedly would rest on days after big hunts, where as many as 8,000 calories might be expended, athletes should be sure to rest after huge training days.

Athleticism is commonly believed to rely on two factors: genetics and practice. Which is most important? 

For most Americans, the Amish way of forgiveness is difficult to comprehend. It’s sourced deeply within their way of life, which is grounded in compassionate, unyielding faith.

Americans should be aware that sugars subtly creep into their diets through fruit juices, caffeinated beverages, sweetened breakfast foods, and especially sodas. They can, and do, add up.

Take a moment to rub the top of your skull. With a little motivation — and the aid of a drill or pick — one could easily unlock the squelchy pink organ encased within. 

Everyone should be aware that a multitude of men are either chemically or surgically castrated for a variety of reasons in contemporary Western society.

Perhaps the most obstructing barrier to treating neurological conditions is quite literally a barrier.

Over the past sixty years, the global birth rate has steadily declined with clockwork consistency. 

Drifting in the deep, the hulking, yet streamlined mammoth unleashes a string of sound, a booming, but delicate song.