There’s a new book out about the sociology of driving called Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) that looks pretty interesting and includes the fun fact cited in the title of this post: more people are killed in crosswalks crossing legally than jaywalking. Looks like it’s [...]
The September 2008 issue of Consumer Reports has an article on sleep, and their data shows that sound machines work almost as well as the latest prescription meds in helping you get to sleep with meds helping 75% of the time and sound machines helping 70% of the time, with far fewer side effects.
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Anyone who works in science should listen to this fantastic speech from Robert Krulwich on why scientists should be more like Galileo and less like Isaac Newton. Hard-won data is a powerful thing, but that same data narrated and illustrated and, ultimately, understood in the minds of the world has an impact that is much deeper.
