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The Nobel laureate Tim Hunt has apologised for comments he made about female scientists. Hunt had told a conference he had a reputation for being a chauvinist, before saying: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall…
Scientists should work in gender-segregated labs, according to a Nobel laureate, who said the trouble with “girls” is that they cause men to fall in love with them and cry when criticised. Tim Hunt, an English biochemist who admitted that he has a reputation for being a “chauvinist”, said to the World Conference of Science…
CONTENT OF THE POST Anti-vax Twitter consists of several thousand vaccine denialists whose present project is stopping California’s mandatory vaccine bill, through campaigns of lockstep tweeting to lawmakers, workplace and home-based harassment of dissenters, and coordinated SEO campaigns that muddy the waters for concerned parents who try to research the subject. Renee DiResta (a vaccination…
“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of German researchers had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 percent faster if they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front page of Bild, Europe’s largest daily newspaper, just beneath their update about the Germanwings crash. From there, it ricocheted…
Story highlights Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, is struck by a tornado At least 13 deaths have been reported It is the same storm system causing floods in Texas At least 13 people were killed, including three children, Acuña Mayor Evaristo Lenin Perez said. Another 200 were injured. Photos from the scene, which sits right across the…
In a television commercial from a few years ago for Abilify — one of the world’s top selling drugs — a sad cartoon woman looks down at the ground and sees an expanding black hole with bulging eyes. “Here’s my depression,” she says. Regular antidepressants weren’t working to keep her depression in check, she explains….
/.byline-inner How would you describe a woman who has decided that she never wants children? Selfish? Just going through a phase? Bound to feel alone as she grows older? Our culture has a lot of labels for childless females. One word you don’t often hear in reference to a woman and her personal choice not to procreate? Empowered. But, that’s…
Who should save the sight of an uninsured South Carolina man who can’t afford eye surgery? That’s the question the Charlotte Observer asks in a story about a 49-year-old Republican who declined to sign up for Obamacare because he “prided himself on paying his own medical bills,” and is now upset that the Affordable Care…
any images in the post content will be duplicated here as well adding this for mobile swiping Slide: 1 / of 1 .Caption: Lung cancer. Coloured X-ray of the chest of an 84 year old woman with a malignant (cancerous) tumour (yellow) in the apex of the right lung (top left). DU CANE MEDICAL IMAGING…
OK, some facial growths may look like a toilet brush, but that’s as far as it goes. Photograph: Alamy According to multiple news sites, beards can contain more poo than a toilet. Here are a few of the headlines: “Some beards contain more poo than a toilet shocking study reveals” – the Mirror “Shock new…