ben goldacre witters on and on and on about things that are too long to post on twitter and not clever enough to post on his main blog at www.badscience.net
"Storyboard" watches a film with subtitles for you, takes a still when the words change, and so turns a film into a picture book. "Storyboard was born of my insane desire to consume videos without actually having to watch them. Normally that would involve putting the TV on in the background and ignoring the video while listening to the audio, but what about the reverse? All visual without the audio. On my kindle." I think this is a work of automated format-shifting genius. http://syntaxi.net/2013...
Here's a fun press release that just came in. The Nobel Prize committee have put out an own official press release saying they've never heard of this guy. What are they afraid of? http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/world-renowned-scientist-dr-rongxiang-xu-speaks-out-about-nobel-assembly-statement-claiming-they-have-not-heard-of-him-183013711.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mebo I Date: Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:30 AM Subject: Stem Cell Regeneration To: ben@badscience.net Hello Mr...
Just watched this over a sandwich: French electronic music pioneer Eliane Rodigue on her ARP 2500. I like her patch storage solution. If you're bored: I'm @bengoldacre on Twitter. My first book is Bad Science My second book is Bad Pharma My main blog is here. My throwaway blog is here. I did this TED talk, and this TED talk.
Compare and contrast. October 2012.... http://ukinromania.fco.gov.uk/en/visit-uk/great-campaign/great-romania-ro ...January 2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/27/uk-immigration...
The Guardian comes in for a lot of flak in this week's British Medical Journal for giving private healthcare to its staff. I'm not entirely sure what I think about this. I'm more concerned that public bodies - including the BBC, the GMC, the Science Museum - offer private healthcare to middle class staff on high wages. Is the NHS really so bad? I also think, whether this is bad or not, it is different to individuals paying for private education (or private healthcare), because it is the oganisation itself paying...
Sometimes academic nutrition researchers complain that I use "nutritionist" to describe quacks. http://www.badscience.net/category/complementary-medicine/nutritionists/ In case it's of interest, this is what I say, in a reply I sent to an email last night. But first, three minutes in, here is Dara O'Briain on the same issue: ================================= Hi there, thanks. As I think I say in the book: the word “nutritionist” has been lost by your profession. It now means - to more people than...
If you're bored: I'm @bengoldacre on Twitter. My first book is Bad Science My second book is Bad Pharma My main blog is here. My throwaway blog is here. I did this TED talk, and this TED talk.
I've been watching BBC News today. As with all such channels, it gets repetitive and supeficial very quickly, on topics that are deep and would benefit from long explanations. Here's what I'd like to see: a channel called BBC News Long. Today it might have... - One hour on the history of Mali. - One hour on the history of Algeria. - One hour on terrorist tactics, and counter terrorism. - One hour on what the current European treaty commits us to, and why anyone cares either way. It would be fine...
This game is completely addictive. The genius at xkcd did a graphic explaining how the Apollo 5 rocket worked... using only the 1,000 most common words in the English language. It's called "Up Goer Five" and I insist that you read it, because it is magnificent. http://xkcd.com/1133/ Now, some equally massive genius has created an online text editor, one that only lets you use the 1,000 most common words in the English language. http://splasho.com/upgoer5/# I used it (briefly, I could have been sucked...