Gross and disgusting things are fascinating to Valerie Curtis. She’s a “disgustologist” who joined me on America weekend to discuss her book, “Don’t Look, Don’t Touch, Don’t Eat: The Science Behind Revulsion.” We talked about how being disgusted has helped us evolve as a species, whether different world cultures are disgusted by different things, and […]
You go to the refrigerator for milk and notice that the date stamped on the bottle was yesterday. Do you drink it, or throw it away? Most people do the latter, which leads to far too much food being wasted, because those dates on the labels don’t mean anything. That’s according to research by my […]
After reading Susan Perry’s MinnPost column about how homeopaths are exploiting the world’s most vulnerable people, I invited her onto my America Weekend show to explain why spreading such pseudo-science and non-medicine to the developing world is harmful. She talked about groups like Homeopaths Without Borders, who have taught earthquake victims in Haiti to use […]
Before you watch the “Breaking Bad” series finale tomorrow night, check out my interview with the show’s science adviser, Donna Nelson (as heard last month on my America Weekend show). While we’re on the subject, here’s the animated version of Badger’s Star Trek script by Matt Czap…
It seems like every week, there’s a report about something else we eat that causes cancer. But Dr. Steven Novella of Science Based Medicine, explained on my America Weekend show that while it seems like everything causes cancer, it turns out that very little of it does, and that eating a balanced diet will give […]
If you look carefully at this official NASA photo, you’ll see the LADEE spacecraft launching on its way to the moon last Friday — plus a frog that’s a lot further off the Earth than it ever expected to be. For a larger image, and an explanation of how it happened, click this link.