Category Archives: Hard and Soft Sciences

So disgusted I don’t have a clever title

Merck Pharmaceuticals created a phony peer-reviewed journal to tout one of its own products. Thanks to Content Love for the link.

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Life in sixty seconds

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!

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Tapping the strands of the web

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 … Continue reading

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