Oh my...

"You walk around it and you can't help but smile."

Conservatives are corrupting this great movie...

I loved the "March of the Penguins" movie. But conservatives are now taking the movie and using it for their own agendas. It makes me sick.

Cool blog

The owners of the Moxie Cinema in my hometown (Springfield, Mo.) are keeping a blog that shows the progress of the theater. It's actually a pretty cool blog.

Bad Science writing

From The Guardian

"There is one university PR department in London that I know fairly well - it's a small middle-class world after all - and I know that until recently, they had never employed a single science graduate. This is not uncommon. Science is done by scientists, who write it up. Then a press release is written by a non-scientist, who runs it by their non-scientist boss, who then sends it to journalists without a science education who try to convey difficult new ideas to an audience of either lay people, or more likely - since they'll be the ones interested in reading the stuff - people who know their way around a t-test a lot better than any of these intermediaries. Finally, it's edited by a whole team of people who don't understand it. You can be sure that at least one person in any given "science communication" chain is just juggling words about on a page, without having the first clue what they mean, pretending they've got a proper job, their pens all lined up neatly on the desk.

Of course a system like that will cock up. The proof is in Bad Science, every week. See you in Berlin.

· Bad Science will be continuing in the Guardian next week"