Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Why the BMI is a crock of...well, you get the idea

  Published: July 19, 2007, 1:56 pm

  Tags: Science And Technology

  I read this article today about the growing number of people who are overweight or obese. This really ticked me off.If people keep gaining weight at the current rate, fat will be the norm by 2015, with 75 percent of U.S. adults overweight and 41 percent obese, U.S. researchers predicted on Wednesday.I'm overweight. In fact, according to the BMI

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• Solar Cells

  Published: July 20, 2007, 4:48 pm

  Tags: Math Science

  Chemistry and Environmental Sciences. "Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own power stations"..."Developing organic solar cells from polymers, however, is a cheap and

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• Washington State--On Its Way To A Clue?

  Published: July 20, 2007, 4:22 pm

  Tags: Testing Assessment, K 12 Issues, Math Science

  Here's hoping.An outside review of Washington's standards for mathematics found them sorely lacking with key concepts missing, a lack of focus and insufficient clarity, especially when it comes to the basics.Consultant Linda Plattner, hired by the state Board of Education, says Washington expects too little of its students in math, even though

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• The Astronaut’s Wife

  Published: July 14, 2007, 9:21 pm

  Tags: Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Not Recommended, Reviews

  there before. As a lifelong science fiction reader I’ve made some leaps before to accept a story’s premise but this is just so poorly done that I couldn’t get over it. And Depp is so blond! Maybe if he had dark hair I would have liked this. But I doubt it, a lot. not

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• Judge Dredd

  Published: July 14, 2007, 6:08 pm

  Tags: Science Fiction, Crime, Action, Recommended, Reviews

  This 1995 flick, which I watched the other day since it was on the HD On Demand list, is a fun adaptation of a longrunning British comic that works for me mainly because director Danny Cannon keeps each scene to a bare minimum (not the bangs and the booms but the dialog and length) and star Sly Stallone plays Dredd as so straight you’ll need

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• In Brief: Why aren't our nation's researchers studying ...

  Published: July 26, 2007, 4:55 pm

  Tags: Penises, What We Need More Of Is Science

  Why aren't our nation's researchers studying the vitally important "big shoes, big cock" hypothesis? It's an outrage! [WCS]

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• The Sixth (Feline) Sense

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:49 am

  Tags: Health Science

  If you find this cat at your doorstep, you'd better call the funeral home.

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• Because I said so, thats why!

  Published: July 23, 2007, 5:44 pm

  Tags: Health Science, Religion Society

  It was bound to happen. Not content with declaring all living scientists on their side, Darwinists are now turning to the past and declaring that all dead scientists were really on their side too, if they'd only known it. Thus, a writer for The New Republic, James Kirchick, states that, were Isaac Newton among us today, it's quite likely he

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• Woohoo! New Story

  Published: June 18, 2007, 11:23 pm

  Tags: Personal, Entertainment, Magazine, Science Fiction

  For any of you short fiction fans, I've got a story in the current (August 07) issue of Realms of Fantasy Magazine. The title is "Time Tells All." Though I'm far from unbiased, I highly recommend it. The issue is on stands now, and should remain up through August 6.

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• The rise and fall of prefrontal lobotomies

  Published: July 25, 2007, 9:05 am

  Tags: Science

  Found this intriguing, if unsettling, post on the Neurophilosophy blog: A brief guide to the rise and fall of prefrontal lobotomies. The blogger draws no conclusions, leaving me to wonder whether I should either be grateful for the plethora of...

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• The man who fed the world

  Published: July 25, 2007, 6:55 am

  Tags: Science

  Exciting news last week Norman Borlaug won the Congressional Gold Medal. And that's exciting why? Well, only five people in history have ever won that award as well as the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom....

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• How much would you get for an arm and a leg?

  Published: July 24, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Health, Science, Weblogs

  My body is worth $3,475. Well, if I was dead and in America. ScienceBloggers have been having fun discussing the (admittedly unscientific) Cadaver Calculator, which works out the value of your body parts to medical researchers. Take the test and...

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• The ScienceBlogs page on Wikipedia needs your input. [Adventures in Ethics and Science]

  Published: July 26, 2007, 4:11 pm

  Tags: Blogospheric Science

  to become an entry about ScienceBlogs. And I can't help noticing that you're reading a ScienceBlogs blog. (Nice shirt, by the way -- it really suits you!) So possibly you have some idea of what kind of information might be useful to the person turning to Wikipedia to try to understand what this whole ScienceBlogs thing is. If you do,

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• Danica McKellar exclusive for Scienceblogs [A Blog Around The Clock]

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Science Education

  Tara of Aetiology, after reviewing Danica McKellar's book "Math Doesn't Suck", posted an exclusive blog interview with Danica, which you can (and should) read here. Read the comments on this post...

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• Science in The Simpsons [A Blog Around The Clock]

  Published: July 26, 2007, 3:20 pm

  Tags: Science Reporting

  Michael Hopkin interviewed Al Jean, the executive producer of The Simpsons show, about math and science, sometimes central, sometimes hidden, in the episodes of everyone's favourite show... Read the comments on this post...

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