Posts under ‘science’

From the amazing site “Information Is Beautiful” comes this visualisation of how billions of dollars are spent around the world, in relative terms.
You can instantly see, for example, that at first glance the cost of the Iraq War seems to dwarf all others, until you look further down and see the “worst case” total cost [...]

Just seen this on Digg…
Is it sad that I find this cool?

There are a lot of misconceptions in science – mostly fueled by the mass media. Some of this is just plain wrong, while others can even be dangerous.
Most of this pseudoscience – that is, theories that are cloaked in scientific-sounding explanations or extrapolated from honest research but misinterpreted. Some of this has seeped into the [...]

There are many great Science, and Popular Science books around – perhaps “A Brief History Of Time” by Stephen Hawking being #1.
Here’s a great list from Read Write Web that suggests some more, with many more possiblities mentioned in the comments:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_great_science_books.php
Along with authors such as Richard Dawkins (”Gods Rottweiler” )  these would make [...]