Obama recently said something about autism and vaccinations:

We’ve seen just a skyrocketing autism rate. Some people are suspicious that it’s connected to the vaccines. This person included. The science right now is inconclusive, but we have to research it. [
Washington Post ]

According to the Obama campaign, “this person” refers to someone in the crowd [...]

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I’ve had sleeping trouble on and off for several years, and in order to combat it I’ve tried to regain some sort of natural rhythm in sleeping. That means going to bed earlier than most and not relying on an alarm clock to wake me up. (Note that this latter is only possible because I [...]

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What I find really amazing about this synopsis of how Orange County is cleaning waste water and returning it to the county’s taps is not the process itself …

The program takes treated sewer water, runs it through the same reverse osmosis process that bottled water companies use to purify their artesian (or tap) water, and [...]

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Researchers in Franklin and Marshall College have a paper in Science (
Natural Streams and the Legacy of Water-Powered Mills, abstract only unless you’re a AAAS member) suggesting that the current model of water flow over land mass — at least certain kinds of land mass — is fundamentally flawed thanks to a primary [...]

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Part of why I like Alton Brown is he uses science in the kitchen. More than once I’ve seen him tackle a culinary tradition — brushing mushrooms instead of washing them, for example — with an actual experiment to discover whether or not that tradition has merit. (In the case of mushrooms, the advantage of [...]

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