Why You Don’t Need 8 Glasses Of Water A Day
Adam Conover, host of "Adam Ruins Everything" on TruTV, explains...
A Cup Of Crap
After US swimmer Michael Phelps showed up at the Olympics with round purple bruises on his body, there have been a ton of stories explaining why. The short answer: he's fallen for pseudoscientific bullshit. It's called cupping, a technique that dates from before...
Best Thing I’ve Read Today
Zack Kopplin is right that Hillary Clinton saying "I believe in science" should not be noteworthy, but it is, unfortunately. Thirty minutes into Hillary Clinton’s speech accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, she made a simple admission that, in...
Five Things
With 100% of the precincts counted, the total number of people whose minds were changed about Hillary Clinton today comes out to exactly zero. House Republicans, of course, are furious she won't be indicted, and are calling for an independent prosecutor to look into...
Wieger Wamelink, Making Martian Food
Wieger Wamelink is a scientist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where he has been doing research for the Mars One project. In particular, he's been trying to figure out if it's possible to grow food in the Martian soil. After he published some positive...
The Prayer Non-Controversy
Much was made yesterday of David Perdue, a Republican Senator from Georgia, joking about praying for President Obama's death: “We should pray for him like Psalms 109:8 says: Let his days be few, and let another have his office.” He said those words at some get...
Gel (OH!) Shots
For years, we've heard about companies developing male contraceptives. I've always been skeptical because I don't think women are going to trust men just because they say they're fixed. It's not that the burden of contraception should only be on the woman, but the...
Science Advocate Of The Week
This is 12-year-old Marco Arturo at home in Mexico...