Obesity Science Update: Fat People Smell Food Better And The Discovery Of An Obesity Gene

by SlantedScientist November 15, 2010

Two science news stories, one common theme today: obesity. Fat folk. Seat thieves. Blubberhouses. Call them what you will, they’re here to stay. First up is the news that scientists have determined that fat people are better able to smell food. Could this be the reason for their obesity, rather than an effect of it? [...]

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The Monday Music Mango: New Christmas Albums By Annie Lennox, Jackie Evancho, Pink Martini

by SlantedScientist November 15, 2010

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming music releases. No science here, just our weekly opinions on music. This time around there’s a full-on Christmas theme, with some classics from the ever distinctive voice of Annie Lennox, some classics from the bizarrely adult voice of Jackie Evancho, and a mixed [...]

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The Atheist’s Guide To Christmas: Available On Amazon’s Kindle For $1

by SlantedScientist November 14, 2010

Humanists and humorists rejoice! The wonderful book of essays by comedians, scientists and “personalities” is now available to download onto your Amazon Kindle for just $1. Well, actually $1.01, but we scientists could give a damn about a difference of 1%. Brit heavy, the author list includes humanist Claire Rayner, humorists David Baddiel and Charlie [...]

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The Physics Behind How Cats Drink. Listen Up, This Is Important Science

by SlantedScientist November 14, 2010

Cancer. HIV/AIDS. Malari. Cholera. All very important questions facing scientists, and which are producing hugely important results every day. We, however, have chosen to report on research which has revealed the physics behind the way cats drink. You know, that lapping/sipping thing they do. Oh, yeah. SlantedScience: always at the forefront of breaking scientific news. [...]

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Scientists Discover Self-Cloning Lizard In Vietnamese Restaurant

by SlantedScientist November 14, 2010

In news which will surprise nobody who has eaten in one, scientists have announced that they have made the chance discovery of a novel kind of life in a Vietnamese restaurant. It’s a lizard. Most lizards are like us: to reproduce they need a male, a female, and lots of alcohol. But a new species [...]

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Ranking The Top Google Keywords For Each Letter Of The Alphabet: November 2010

by SlantedScientist November 9, 2010

Google, as is well known, generates about 15 billion enormobytes of data every nanosecond. That’s a lot. And data in those quantities requires massive brains and huge computers to turn into meaningful statistics. Because we possess neither of those things, and yet still wanted to mine for some kind of Google data, we decided to [...]

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The Monday Music Mango: New Albums By Susan Boyle, Syd Barrett, Alter Bridge

by SlantedScientist November 8, 2010

Separating the sweet, juicy flesh from the stone and skin of upcoming music releases. Now calm down. Yes, this is a science news website (sort of). And yet you’re currently reading a music review. Don’t worry, we can explain. Susan Boyle’s initial TV appearance was a psychological experiment: look, the scientists said to the viewers, [...]

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Scientists Make Blood From Skin Cells: Miserable Teens Everywhere Begin Sucking On Their Wrists

by SlantedScientist November 7, 2010

In news which will delight all those teenagers who walk around in white facepaint and black cloaks, like they’re some kind of a frickin’ vampire and not just a deluded adolescent, scientists claim to have made blood from skin cells. Of secondary importance, patients suffering from cancer, anemia and a host of other diseases gain [...]

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Dead Soldier’s Hometown Protects His Funeral From The Disgusting Fred Phelps And Co

by SlantedScientist November 7, 2010

In news which we are describing as “better than finding out that Charlize Theron is totally into fat, balding guys who like science and beer” , residents of a Missouri town have banded together to stop Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church from pissing all over a soldier’s funeral. Phelps and his pustulent posse [...]

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Ozzy Osbourne ‘s Genome Sequenced: Drugs Feature Heavily

by SlantedScientist November 6, 2010

Oh, Ozzy Osbourne. You drug-taking, bat-head-biting, music-making, hand-shaking, wife’s-boobs-publicly-grabbing adorable lunatic, you. We feel like we know you better than ourselves. And now, we genuinely do, as your entire genome has been sequenced. And, in news which will surprise nobody, it reveals that you have previously unseen mutations in drug and alcohol metabolizing genes. Just [...]

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