general homeopathic hospital

Debates over homeopathic medicine are making a big splash across the pond, which of course encourages comedians with to mercilessly mock alternative medicine. For example, take this gem from the British sketch comedy show That Mitchell and Webb Look[...]

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Helsinki Dahlia, 1

tags: Dahlia, Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, nature, Helsinki, image of the day

Dahlias.

Photographed at Rautatientori in Helsinki, Finland.

Image: GrrlScientist, 3 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image)

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Homeopathetic

I can rant and rail against homeopathy, how it’s useless, how it’s nothing more than water, how there is no real methodology or mechanics behind it, how it’s been shown over and over not to have any efficacy over the placebo[...]

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/03/homeopathetic/

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Down Under with Jim Bell

by Susan Lendroth Planetary Society President Jim Bell will give a talk in Melbourne, Australia on July 10. Jointly sponsored with the Mars Society, the event will take place in the Fritz Loewe Theatre at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. Jim is the Payload Element Lead for the Mars Exploration Rover "Pancam" multispectral, stereoscopic imaging systems on the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. So, expect great images in his ....

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http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002007/

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Notes & Queries 7/3/09

Night Flight to ItalyI’m off tomorrow night to Italy, specifically to the Sixth IAA Symposium on Realistic Near-Term Advanced Scientific Space Missions. I’ll be delivering a talk at the conference and a public lecture in the town of Aosta[...]

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http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=8533

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Machines Like Us interviews: Ann Grand

Ann Grand started her working life in the late 1970s as biology teacher. She retired after ten years but continued to be passionate about the excitement and exhilaration of science. Later, she took a degree with the Open University, studying topics from geology to systems theory. In 2003, she founded the Bristol Science Café and, in her spare time, sustains the work of the national and international network of science cafés, running the website and supporting and mentoring new café organizers. In January 2009, she started work on an interdisciplinary PhD research project, based at the University of the West of England, Bristol, seeking ways to bring Open Science and public engagement together in a fruitful and symbiotic way. The research project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

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NASA’s Plan B

According to Discovery News, NASA has a "Plan B" program in case something happens with the Constellation program. It’s an alternative way to get back to the Moon, and they made a video for it. There are some obvious advantages with[...]

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Scientia Pro Publica -- It's Almost Here!

Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux).

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power)
-- Sir Francis Bacon.

Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a blog carnival that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing targeted specifically to the public that has been published in the blogosphere within the past 60 days. To send your submissions to Scientia Pro Publica, either use this automated submission form or use the cute little widget on the right (sometimes that widget doesn't upload when the mother site is sick). Be sure to include the URL or "permalink", the essay title and, to make life easier for the host, please include a 2-3 sentence summary. If you wish to read the archived issues to see those contributions that were included previously, visit the Scientia website. All essays must be written for the purpose of communicating with the public and non-specialists, and all submissions that qualify as either advertising or pseudoscience will be rejected.

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Today's Mystery Bird for you to Identify

tags: mystery bird, identify this bird, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz

[Mystery bird] photographed in Arizona. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]

Image: Richard Ditch, 25 November 2006 [larger view].

Date Time Original: 2006:11:25 08:07:50
Exposure Time: 1/200
F-Number: 8.00
ISO: 320

Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.

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World Conference of Science Journalists

Just back from the 6th World Conference of Science Journalists in London this week. Tired, suffering the after-effects of overheating in old London buildings with no air conditioning, such as Westminster Central Hall.Regardless, it was an excellent conference, a grehttp://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=4029&message=1at opportunity to meet a hugely diverse range of people. Some of them old friends known [...]

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