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Bare Facts About Barefoot Running
Posted on January 22, 2012 | No CommentsRunning barefoot, or in ‘barefoot shoes’ (thin-soled shoes that simulate the feeling of being barefooted) has become increasingly popular over the last few years. It […] -
Hotter Than You Think
Posted on January 22, 2012 | No CommentsWhen you observe a solar eclipse, the main disk of the Sun is covered but its outer atmosphere is still visible. What you can see […] -
Hooked on the Net?
Posted on January 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe topic of internet addiction is one which is sure to crop up, in some sensationalised form, every few months in the science section of […] -
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Glue!
Posted on January 19, 2012 | No CommentsWhen we hear the words “brain cells” most of us immediately picture the spindly, spider-like neurons that send electrical messages through our brain. But did […] -
If You Could Read My Mind…
Posted on August 10, 2011 | No Comments…Then I wouldn’t believe you. It doesn’t matter whether you use a top hat and a wand, or a multi-million pound fMRI scanner: reading thoughts is still far beyond […] -
What is it like to be a bee?
Posted on June 28, 2011 | No CommentsDo bees have feelings? What would that mean? And if they do have feelings, how should we treat them? Do we have a moral obligation […] -
The Placebo Effect
Posted on June 14, 2011 | No CommentsThe placebo effect is one of the best examples of mind over matter; we are able to affect our bodies through our beliefs. Most commonly […] -
Can Science Tell Us What’s Objectively True? Part 3
Posted on May 14, 2011 | No CommentsWe finished up the last post with a quote from Charles S. Peirce, founder of pragmatism. In it, he argues that something called a “social […] -
Can Science Tell Us What’s Objectively True? Part 4
Posted on May 14, 2011 | No CommentsPhilosopher (and scientist, mathematician, logician, etc.) Charles Peirce, in a well-known 1877 essay, tried to defend the scientific method on pragmatic grounds alone, saying it’s […] -
Can Science Tell Us What’s Objectively True? Part 2
Posted on May 2, 2011 | No CommentsIn this series of blog posts, we’re looking at the philosophical view of science put forward by Charles S. Peirce, the late 19th century American […] -
Can Science Tell Us What’s Objectively True? Part 1
Posted on April 27, 2011 | No CommentsCan science tell us what’s objectively true? Or is it merely a clever way to cure doubt—to give us something to believe in, real or […] -
Building Something out of Nothing
Posted on April 20, 2011 | No CommentsA good way to start to understand what cellular automata are, and why they are so unusual, is to have a play with them. In […] -
Nuclear over reaction?
Posted on March 26, 2011 | No CommentsTen days after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake hit Japan in the early hours of Friday 11th March, the events at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power […] -
Life as we (don’t) know it
Posted on February 11, 2011 | No CommentsPlanet Earth is under attack. Disc-like UFOs litter the night sky, radiating vertical beams through which silhouetted creatures descend. You clench onto your seat. It’s […]
