The Science Behind Why Heat Feels SO Good For Pain
How does heat help your aches and pains, exactly?
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New Study Finds A Simple Science-Backed Way To Boost Confidence
Certain behaviors point to low self-esteem, but a new study found limiting them can have the opposite effect.
Randall "XKCD" Munroe has a New York Times column where he answers weird science questions
Randall Munroe’s “Good Question” column in the New York Times is in the vein of his How To and What If books, in which he answers weird science questions with equally weird...
Crowdfunding to help science fiction great Mike Resnick pay off the medical bills from a near-death experience
Mitch Wagner writes, “Talented and prolific science fiction writer and editor Mike Resnick, who has written extensively over the course of a long career about colonialism and...
Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions?
Robert Skidelsky is an eccentric British economist: trained at Oxford, author of a definitive three-volume biography of Keynes, a Lord who sat with the Tories as their...
Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy is looking for engineering, social science, law, and policy "visitors" for interdisciplinary one-year positions
Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy is a marvellous interdisciplinary research center, and it is advertising for “visitors” for one-year stints: postdocs,...
Thanks to an article about why science fiction great John M Ford's books are out of print, they're coming back
John M Ford — AKA Mike Ford — (previously) was a spectacular and varied science fiction writer who performed brilliantly across a wide range of genres and formats, from RPGs...
5 Science-Backed Herbal Immunity Boosters — Which One’s Right For You?
A beginner-friendly list of herbs for immunity.
Cute "mouse-deer," long lost to science, has been photographed again
This is a silver-backed chevrotain, aka “mouse-deer,” from Vietnam. Until this and other camera trap photographs were taken in the last two years, no scientific evidence of...