And you thought there was a Republican war on science? Check this out. Iain Murray has more thoughts.

For Kyoto:

Translated: the developed countries realize they aren

For Kyoto:

Translated: the developed countries realize they aren

For Kyoto:

Translated: the developed countries realize they aren

TCS Daily is on Al Gore’s case.

Gregg Easterbrook (who seems to be better at this stuff than he is at space policy) pans the “documentary” as well.

[Update on Thursday morning]

How Kyoto held back progress in solving the problem.

[Another update]

Al Gore’s penguin army.

[Late morning update]

Editor Nick Schulz responds to “rebuttals” to the TCS Daily piece.

For those who think that Intelligent Design is a “conservative” (as opposed to a religious) fetish, Anthony Dick has a review of what sounds like an interesting documentary, Flock Of Dodos, over at National Review. No new arguments in support of science, but he puts forth the old ones well.

Maybe.

Smart cooks know they can ferment beans, and make them less gas-inducing, by cooking them in the liquor from a previous batch. But Granito’s team wanted to find out just which bacteria were responsible for this.

When the researchers fermented black beans with the two bacteria, they found it decreased the soluble fiber content by more than 60 percent and lowered levels of raffinose, a compound known to cause gas, by 88 percent.

I haven’t seen a lot worth reporting since the wireless came back up, but I did run across this piece, in the “bears use the woods as a toilet” category, which claims–hold on to your hats, now–that men influenced by attractive women don’t always make great decisions:

“We all think we are rational beings, but our research suggests … that people with high testosterone levels are very vulnerable to sexual cues. If there are no cues around, they behave normally, but if they see sexual images they become impulsive…”

What would we do without researchers?

Here’s an interesting article on perceptions of bias. It turns out (not surprisingly) that we underestimate our own, and overestimate others’.

Here’s an interesting article on perceptions of bias. It turns out (not surprisingly) that we underestimate our own, and overestimate others’.