Taking the Wonder Out of Science Education
A couple of years ago, the London Science Museum produced its own travelling act for children called “The Energy Show”.
Emma C Williams
· 7 min read
Science / Tech
A collection of 56 posts
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
There will always be things that we haven’t figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.” But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect.
Brian D Earp
· 8 min read
Good News on Rain Forests: They Bounce Back Strong
This was the vision of tropical deforestation held in the popular imagination for many years, but the reality is more complex – and more hopeful.
Susan Letcher
· 6 min read
Heritability and Why Parents (but Not Parenting) Matter
Non-additive effects don’t breed true with the same degree of fidelity—in fact these effects bust up the clean transmission of traits from parents to children (to use a sports analogy, it’s a bit like a cornerback in football deflecting the quarterback’s perfect spiral aimed at the receiver).
Brian Boutwell, Razib Khan
· 13 min read
How to Find a Parenting Effect
Practically no one these days will fight you on the idea that genes and environments interact (GxE), and it is in these interactions, perhaps, that we can discover if parenting truly does impact children.
Brian Boutwell
· 17 min read
Bitcoin Might Not Change the World, but the Blockchain That Makes It Work, Might
The blockchain acts as a public database or ledger, and is the technology that stores the details of every exchange of bitcoins.
David Glance
· 4 min read
Why Distance Running Is the Perfect Lab for Studying Sex Differences in Competitiveness
Data from 92,000 marathon runners and 1,100 collegiate athletes consistently shows men are more competitive — and the gap isn't closing.
Robert Deaner
· 6 min read
How a Rebellious Scientist Uncovered the Surprising Truth About Stereotypes
Studying the accuracy of stereotypes is risky business. For many, investigation into stereotypes is tantamount to endorsing bigotry.
Claire Lehmann
· 11 min read
Why Parenting May Not Matter and Why Most Social Science Research Is Probably Wrong
Parenting effects usually play some role in our conception of why some people behave differently than others
Brian Boutwell
· 13 min read
GI Diets Don't Work – Gut Bacteria and Dark Chocolate Are a Better Bet for Losing Weight
The GI theory goes that there are many different types of carbs and they can be graded into how rapidly the body converts them into glucose.
Tim Spector
· 5 min read
Inside the Superforecasters
Tetlock recruited 284 pundits and had them make 82,000 individual predictions from 1983 to 2003.
Michael Story
· 6 min read