Merck Pharmaceuticals created a phony peer-reviewed journal to tout one of its own products.
Thanks to Content Love for the link.
Archive for the ‘Hard and Soft Sciences’ Category
So disgusted I don’t have a clever title
Posted in Hard and Soft Sciences, Links, Society, tagged ethics, medicine, merck, news, pharmaceuticals on May 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Life in sixty seconds
Posted in Hard and Soft Sciences, Nature Awareness, tagged evolution, science, Videos on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A short video that condenses the timescale of earthly evolution to one minute. Pay attention or you’ll miss the invention of writing.
Thanks to Integral Options Cafe for the link!
Tapping the strands of the web
Posted in Art and Artists, Hard and Soft Sciences, Links, Music and Musicians on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New Yorker has a fascinating and slightly horrifying article about itching and how medical understandings of it have changed and are changing.
Mental Floss shows us some of the art of Henry Darger–janitor, recluse, untutored visionary artist.
Head Butler reviews Raising Sand, the astonishing collaboration between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.


