River ,'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My office just got our first (and last?) holiday swag -- a nice box of snacks from the headhunter we use. I was just bemoaning the fact that we don't have any vendors, so don't get any treats!
I can't actually think of a random act of kindness, so I'll try to do something later.....
I can't actually think of a random act of kindness, so I'll try to do something later.....
I think Good Stuff totally counts
That's not a random act! Now it's just maintenance.
but it makes people happy, and some of them are even people you don't know!
Totally counts
Our division chips in on a goat through Heifer International in lieu of cards and gifts to each other. And that was the last act of kindness I participated in, although as I've been doing it for the past four years its not really random.
Woot! Thanks.
I'm making brownie cookies later in a random act of kindness for my family. And, um, me.
I have a question about scientific reporting. IO9 is pretty resoundingly crap at it--often the articles are based on the abstract and I can find more information than that in a ten minute search. The primary writer who does this is also pretty crappy with numbers in general and stats in specific, and flippantly conflates groups in ways that are at best, damaging to the strength of his argument, and at worst pretty deeply offensive.
Now, when he writes an article like this, titled...ahah! The shithead just changed the title. It used to be "Scientists confirm that homosexuality is not genetic but it arises in the womb", but now they've stricken "confirm" and replaced it with "claim"--that was my entire question--I don't see how this can possibly be definitively proven by just what was written, but I guess he got properly called on it (he's responded to me with "don't cares" when I point out that his language is implying untruths, but he just has no shame) I imagine someone on staff called him on this, because he ignores commenters.
I skipped over that article because of the original title.
Is there a shortage of good science writers, or are they just not getting hired by places like IO9?
I believe there's a general shortage of good science writers.