Science Saturday

Brian Spears bio ↓  ·  October 17th, 2009  ·  filed under Other

So, might time travel explain the problems with the super-collider?

For the first time, photographic evidence of the placebo effect in action.

Performance affects perception, even for professional athletes.

If you’ve always suspected that your bullying boss is an idiot, science has your back. I wouldn’t recommend emailing the story to your boss, however, unless you think he or she is too dumb to understand the implications.

If you get past the ridiculousness of the first sentence in this article, there’s actually some interesting connections between the push for self-esteem and the Twitter/Facebook/MySpace/YouTube universe. But good lord is that first sentence boneheaded.

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Brian Spears's first collection of poetry, A Witness in Exile, will be released in 2010. He blogs about politics and pop culture at Incertus, and is the Poetry Editor for The Rumpus. He lives in Florida. More from this author →

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