Charles Fort's Brentford Science

What's an Acceptable Risk for Destroying the Earth?
see

http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0009204v6


"It is concluded that the costs of small risks of catastrophe have been significantly underestimated"

Do Scientists really get paid for producing this crap?
Is this what they doing in the new garage-universities?
 

Professor X of the Church of the Fucked Head: honey, I just doomed the universe!

High meat diet may lead to early puberty for girls

Now that one is a winner. Did this savant get paid for finding this out or was it the result of amateur experimentation?

Best Team Not Guaranteed World Cup Success

Where have you been for the past 100 years? 

Virtual storyteller: reader takes charge of story

They've been doing that for n thousand years

Tiny insect brains capable of huge feats

 We've seen that in the Gulf of Mexico recently

Hospital deaths rise at weekends

That's because there is nobody there to switch off the TV

It's just one long list of things to get done in Anguilla

There's always a lot to be done in places with names like that

Legionnaires' disease link to windscreen wiper water

Who writes this copy?

Brain 'distorts own body image'

Thank God for that.

Experience shapes the brain's circuitry throughout adulthood
People change as they grow up? Worth a Nobel Prize, that one!

Scientists to test Ozzy Osbourne's body to see how he is still alive

They should try this on Cliff Richard

 

June 22nd 2010

 

Here's this week's Breakthroughs:

 

Strangers influence our dating preferences

Did they get a grant for this thinking?
Restless stars: High precision study reveals surprising unrest in massive star clusters

In real time? Present tense, anyone? Get lost!

Scientists uncover the genetic secrets that allow Tibetans to thrive in thin air

This will be useful for ourselves, very soon.

Moving repeatedly in childhood linked with poorer quality-of-life years later

Ask the oiled bird in the net above if he or she is interested in a quick game of truth and consequences with no holds barred.

Antipsychotics  deflate  the brain

You'll come to love your ju-ju sticks

Exoplanet caught on the move (w/ Video)

In another real time? Same present tense? Get lost again!

Climate change scepticism is on the rise

You live and learn with lies that burn

Timing is everything for sharks that smell in stereo

When their gills are not full of oil, that is.

 

 

Moog says:

 

Another list of great scientific breakthroughs coming to your head next week!