https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rese...done-wrong

EXCERPT: Fraud in science gets a lot of attention and condemnation — as it should. But fraud is relatively infrequent. And it isn’t terribly interesting, says Alex Reinhart in Statistics Done Wrong, “at least, not compared to all the errors that scientists commit unintentionally.” Most of those inadvertent errors, it seems, result from the abuse or misuse of statistics, the mathematical methods used to test hypotheses and draw inferences from data.....

http://climatechangeworld.blogspot.com/2...arbon.html

EXCERPT: The space agency has released a video of high-resolution imagery documenting carbon emissions released over an entire year. The result is what looks like the world’s biggest storm stretching the length of the northern hemisphere. The video is the first time scientists have been able to see in fine detail how carbon dioxide moves through the atmosphere, showing the source of greenhouse emissions and their destination. [...] So what else does the map show? For starters, the world’s top three emitters—China, the U.S., and Europe—are easy to spot....

Part I

https://plus.maths.org/content/physics-e...-particles

EXCERPT: The realisation that the great diversity of the world stems from a handful of elementary particles acting under the influence of a few fundamental forces was one of the triumphs of twentieth century physics. But the path to this realisation was not straightforward, and at one point physicists were faced with a bewildering collection of "fundamental particles" — more than there are elements in the chemical table! It has taken an understanding of mathematical symmetry combined with experiments into conditions similar to those soon after the "Big Bang" to bring physicists to the elegant understanding of today....

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Part II

https://plus.maths.org/content/physics-e...es-part-ii

EXCERPT: In the first part of this article we looked at the elementary particles and the forces they feel. Now we will explore some mysteries of particle physics that still remain open....

I was watching SNL Saturday night and static interrupted a State Farm commercial, displaying the words "May 11 Tune-in Earthlings". I thought I was seeing things at first. Needless to say I continued watching TV till about 12:45 for any other messages, but none appeared. A Sunday morning Google search confirmed my experience:

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=c...4.3371j0j8

God I hate insurance companies...

http://phys.org/news/2015-05-zombie-bacteria.html

EXCERPT: A trio of researchers with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has found that bacteria that die as a result of silver poisoning can serve as a means to continue to kill other bacteria in the same environment. In their paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, the team describes how examination of dead bacteria revealed the silver that remained trapped inside of them and how it later caused the death of other bacteria....

http://phys.org/news/2015-05-mystery-ind...llion.html

EXCERPT: In the history of continental drift, India has been a mysterious record-holder. More than 140 million years ago, India was part of an immense supercontinent called Gondwana, which covered much of the Southern Hemisphere. Around 120 million years ago, what is now India broke off and started slowly migrating north, at about 5 centimeters per year. Then, about 80 million years ago, the continent suddenly sped up, racing north at about 15 centimeters per year—about twice as fast as the fastest modern tectonic drift. The continent collided with Eurasia about 50 million years ago, giving rise to the Himalayas.

[...] "When you look at simulations of Gondwana breaking up, the plates kind of start to move, and then India comes slowly off of Antarctica, and suddenly it just zooms across—it's very dramatic," [Leigh] Royden says.

[...] For years, scientists have struggled to explain how India could have drifted northward so quickly. Now geologists at MIT have offered up an answer: India was pulled northward by the combination of two subduction zones—regions in the Earth's mantle where the edge of one tectonic plate sinks under another plate. As one plate sinks, it pulls along any connected landmasses. The geologists reasoned that two such sinking plates would provide twice the pulling power, doubling India's drift velocity.

[...] "In earth science, it's hard to be completely sure of anything," says Leigh Royden, a professor of geology and geophysics in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. "But there are so many pieces of evidence that all fit together here that we're pretty convinced."...

"If you didn’t know, Pabst Blue Ribbon is the hipster beer of choice. I didn’t used to believe this was possible, but I’ve personally witnessed the prevalence of Pabst Blue Ribbon in the funkier parts of four North American cities in the past two months. It’s the truth.

I find the popularity of Pabst Blue Ribbon surprising and upsetting. Surprising because, in Vancouver at least, hipsters are responsible for producing most of the best craft beer and innovative food. Upsetting because Pabst Blue Ribbon tastes not very good. It scores a whopping 2/100 on RateBeer. Needless to say, I’m not a big fan of PBR.

BUT WHY THE HIPSTER LOVE? I mean, there must be a reason, and I’m quite sure it’s not to do with taste. PBR was first brewed in 1844, so maybe because it’s old? But then there’s lots of old beers, why aren’t Abbey beers the coolest? Maybe because PBR is pretty cheap? But there’s lots of other beers in the same price range, or cheaper. Maybe because it’s so uncool that it’s super cool? I don’t know, I don’t get hipsters.

Turns out other people on the internet were also wondering why PBR is so cool with the kids who aren’t trying to try to look cool. As it would happen, PBR is actually popular because it was so uncool that it became cool with the ironic crowd in the late nineties. A PBR marketing manager jumped all over this and began sponsoring indie music, skate shops, art galleries, weird sports, facial hair clubs, and other hipstery things. This Quora thread and this Wikipedia blurb do a good job of explaining what went down. I find it really funny that PBR themselves decline to acknowledge their hipster fan base for fear of becoming inauthentic.

But now that everyone knows PBR is cool, is it uncool? Probably, since hipsters sort of got punked into drinking bad beer. Hey cool kids, maybe start drinking better tasting local craft beer?"====http://lovegoodbeer.com/2012/11/why-do-h...ue-ribbon/

Heres snack recipe i found:::

Poor a tablespoon or so of good tastin extra virgin olive oil over a mixin bowl fulla kale... swish the kale around to get a coat of oil on it... spread it out on a cookie sheet an bake at 350 for about 15 minutes... when its done it will start to brown some an be a bit crispy (taste for doneness while its bakin)... when done it tastes a bit salty so no added salt needed... an its good wit or wit-out some garlic powder sprinkled over it after its done.!!!

I snacked on raw kale while it was cookin