“I’ve read these papers fairly carefully, looking for weak points ... but I can’t find any.”

See, now that’s how science works. An article by Carl Zimmer in the New York Times (I expect you’ll need to register; it is too fresh for Aaron’s Link Generator) describes a couple of recent papers...

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Oh, the vagaries of travel and wasted time. There I was last week, sanctimoniously blogging on about being a (reformed) chipper smoker, without even wondering why. And all the while The Economist of two weeks before had the answer: Limitation of cigarette consumption by CYP2A64, 7 and *9 poly...

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That’s irony, up there in the headline. Steven and Stephen (The Fabulous Freakonomics Brothers) point to a competition, organized by Jews, for anti-Semitic cartoons.

“We'll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published! No Iranian will beat us o...

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“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.”

Mark Twain had it right. It is easy to stop. The hard part is not to start again. I’ve decided to try again. But this time I’m better informed. According to Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point,...

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A speaker at a meeting I was at this morning, about agricultural biodiversity and nutrition, said that fortified sugar was now on the market. There was a knowing chuckle from some in the audience, which nicely hid my gobsmacked ignorance. First chance I got, I checked. And blow me if it isn't true:...

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