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Don’t Fear Your Phone, Virus Battles Cancer, Global Spin Marketing, To Catch A Cheater, Amphipod Claws, Interview w/ Sean Carroll about The Big Picture, Dancing Insect Hairs, Life From Comets, Of Peppered Moths And Butterfly Wings, Pot News, And Much More…
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According to the most cutting edge research in science…
A term paper will not write itself…
If a desk is messy today,
no amount of waiting around will find it organized again without work…
If a sink full of dirty dishes is left alone,
it will continue to be a sink full of dirty dishes,
or worse, without effort…
And if you break an egg to make your breakfast…
You can prepare that egg anyway you like…
but won’t wind up with a neatly unbroken egg at the end…
You will end up with a dirty dish
that you have likely left on your messy desk
where your unwritten term paper is still not finished…
This is just one of the quirks of living in a universe with an arrow of time…
And while entropy is a major obstacle to procrastinating your way to a completed term paper…
Entropy is absolutely necessary for a world in which term papers are possible…
As the world becomes more complicated it also becomes more interesting…
And the more interesting the world becomes the more there is to learn about…
And the more there is to learn about the more you will hear about it here on
This Week in Science
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Don’t Fear Your Phone
Another cell phone radiation study has been released that purports to show a link between radiation and brain and heart tumors in male rats. However, nobody’s talking about the many problems in the study.
Virus Battles Cancer
If you are suffering from a brain tumor, a new method involving a virus and cancer-fighting chemicals has passed Phase I clinical trials with the greatest of ease extending survival rates for those with tumors.
Global spin marketing
Words matter, but so does context.
Which came first, the cheater or the couch potato??
Male sparrows put less effort into raising their chicks when the female is likely to step out on him. They made their judgements based on the character of the female, not the paternity of the chicks, so the phrase “once a cheater” really means something in the sparrow world…
Hey baby, are you right or left-handed?
Amphipod ladies prefer a right-clawed gentleman, and despite it getting in the way, the bigger the claw the better. But why are there still lefties, then?
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Interview with theoretical physicist, Sean Carroll, about his new book, The Big Picture.
Life From Comets
The amino acid glycine and mineral phosphorus have been found on comet 67P by the Rosetta mission.
Of Peppered Moths And Butterfly Wings
Two studies out this week single out mutations in a gene called cortex as the source of variation in wing color variation in both the storied peppered moths and the wings of butterflies.
Dancing Hairs Tell Bees Where it’s At
…The nectar that is… The hairs on a bee can sense the electric signals coming from a flower. Is that like smelling a color? Or tasting a sound? Woah, man…
Cannabis and health
A New Zealand study delved into the health effects of smoking weed.
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