This morning I was on the nationwide agriculture radio program, AgriTalk, hosted by Mike Adams. This is the rational Mike Adams, not the "Health Ranger" conspiracy theorist. Mike brings up all of the key points - that people simultaneously say they want to embrace science but then pick and choose the science that matches their other cultural beliefs, that over-regulating food in ways that don't...
read moreProf. Jean-Claude Bradley, a true open science pioneer, has passed away.Many people worked with him, he was willing to challenge the status quo and that means a lot of people wanted to be around him - he was one of the earliest scientists to sign up to help Science 2.0 after this first component launched. I don't know how he heard of us, he was just in tune with the broad science community that...
read moreIf you're like me, you always throw a little Pabst Blue Ribbon on meat. Some people use whiskey in their marinade.At the Templeton Rye Distillery in Templeton, Iowa they are cutting out the middleman - they are trying to create pork that already tastes like whiskey. read...
read moreAs former NSA director Michael Hayden learned on an Amtrak train last year, anyone with a phone can become a livetweeting snoop.But why use a person when you can use a lamo? Two artists, Kyle McDonald and Brian House, have built Conversnitch for less than $100. It resembles a lightbulb or lamp and listens in on nearby conversations and posts snippets of transcribed audio to...
read moreIn the Wall Street Journal, Science 2.0 columnist Amir Aczel tackles the biggest question of all; how to reconcile religion and science when people on the fringes of each are doing the best to declare war on each other.He notes that 51% of Americans don't believe in the Big Bang. Startling, yet if we ask that 49% that do believe in it how it actually worked, they have no idea. They just have...
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