Category Archives: Science news

There’s 12 days left until the deadline for The Giant’s Shoulders #20!  It will be held at The Lay Scientist, and entries can be submitted through blogcarnival.com or directly to the host blog, as usual! On a related note, we … Continue reading →

Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral. Via Megan at Rigel, follow Doctor Who as he travels to the Silver Spiral and explains the physics behind a supernova! Evo. Anthro. Study Suggests You Might Be Running Wrong. I always suspected something … Continue reading →

I’m a little delayed this week, because I’m at a science conference in San Francisco and, surprisingly, internet access is somewhat scarce. Nevertheless, here are this week’s selections: Were the Maya noble savages? Everyone knows that the Mayan civilization collapsed … Continue reading →

Prehistoric ballistics, or Mythbusters meets archaeology. The Mythbusters have been amazing promoters of science, but who knew that they actually do peer-reviewed science?  Julien Riel-Salvatore of A Very Remote Period Indeed describes a collaboration between archaeologists and Mythbusters to answer … Continue reading →

The nineteenth edition of The Giant’s Shoulders is up at The Renaissance Mathematicus!  Many thanks to Thony C. for assembling a great edition! The deadline for the next edition is February 15th, and it will be held at The Lay … Continue reading →

Nyamulagira Volcano and Human Evolution. Greg Laden of Greg Laden’s Blog describes some of his own published research speculating that humans may have split from chimps on the slopes of volcanoes!  It is a fascinating post with great personal anecdotes … Continue reading →

There’s 10 days left until the deadline for The Giant’s Shoulders #19!  It will be held at The Renaissance Mathematicus, and entries can be submitted through blogcarnival.com or directly to the host blog, as usual!

More on Korean linguistic exports. Ingrid Piller at Language on the Move discusses an interesting project undertaken by a Korean organization: the “saving” of small languages by giving them a written form using the Korean Hangul characters. But does the … Continue reading →

Can modern day gadgets help combat prejudice? We have come so far as a society in combating prejudice, but there is clearly much more to be done.  William Lu at The Quantum Lobe Chronicles discusses attempts to use technology to … Continue reading →