The Latest Diet: Scientists Say That Working For Food Makes It Taste Better

by SlantedScientist November 6, 2010

We know diets. We’ve done the cabbage soup, the WeightWatchers, the Jenny Craig, the high fiber, the low fat, the high protein, the low carb. One time we deliberately swallowed a tapeworm so we could eat anything we liked and still lose weight. Sadly, our diet was so poor – basically, pizza-sandwhiches and Sprite -  [...]

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Halloween Science Part Two: Death By Hay Bale, Razors In Candy And Costumes = Marijuana

by SlantedScientist October 31, 2010

Welcome to the second edition of our Halloween science special, in which we show you the many dangers scientists have identified as connected to this most evil of holidays. Today: harmful hay hides horribly hideous…moulds; razors in candy are an urban myth; and students who dress up definitely inject crystal marijuana into their eyeballs. //

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Halloween Science Part One: Dangerous Eggs And How Halloween Candy Interfered With Science

by SlantedScientist October 30, 2010

It’s almost Halloween, that time of year when ghosts float amongst us, children are encouraged to eat their bodyweight in chocolate, and college boys try to have sex by walking around bars with a cardboard box over their faces labeled “Mobile Mammography Unit”. Meanwhile, SlantedScience spends its time trawling the scientific archives for stories with [...]

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SlantedScience’s Monday Cancer Roundup: This Will (Not) Kill You

by SlantedScientist October 30, 2010

Oh boy. The terrible things that happen when tabloids latch onto University science departments’ PR releases: The list of substances which are claimed to either cause or cure cancer is astounding, and grows weekly. It’s confusing. Curry, cats, cabbage and corndogs. Come up with any noun you want, and there’ll be a scientist out there [...]

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Alcohol Lightweight? Scientists Find A Gene To Explain Why

by SlantedScientist October 24, 2010

People handle booze differently. We, for example, can put down the liquor all night and still be the same sexy, with-it entity we always are. Then there are the folk who just need to sniff a large Southern Comfort and suddenly they’re a hot mess, staggering around the bar and starting fights with biggest guy [...]

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SlantedScience’s Monday Cancer Roundup: This Will (Not) Kill You

by SlantedScientist October 24, 2010

Oh boy. The terrible things that happen when tabloids latch onto University science departments’ PR releases: The list of substances which are claimed to either cause or cure cancer is astounding, and grows weekly. It’s confusing. Curry, cats, cabbage and corndogs. Come up with any noun you want, and there’ll be a scientist out there [...]

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YouTube Cat LOLZ: Cat Translator

by SlantedScientist October 24, 2010

We are unnaturally obsessed with YouTube cat videos. Talking cat, keyboard cat, spider cat: we hoover them all up like Lindsay Lohan at the Annual Colombian Farmers’ Conference. Read on for our current favorite, from the cat translator guy SlurpyJ. //

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Sex In Space: One Small Squirt For Man, One Giant Screwup For Stem Cells

by SlantedScientist October 17, 2010

Who among us has not thought long and hard (*chuckle*) about having sex in space? The floating, the spinning, the innumerable physical positions not possible on our gravity-cursed planet. Well keep on dreaming, perverts, because Australian scientists have declared that sex in space is harmful to adult stem cells, the hardworking little fellas which maintain [...]

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Do Not Get On A Plane With This Man: Malaria Clinical Trials Volunteer Goes Missing

by SlantedScientist October 12, 2010

This is a public service piece: look at the guy on the left – police have also supplied us with an image of how he may currently appear – and fix that face in your head. Now, next time you fly or take public transport, spend a moment scanning the other passengers’ faces. Because that [...]

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Scientists To Men: You Sweat Too Much. Men To Scientists: Meh.

by SlantedScientist October 9, 2010

People in Victorian England hated talk of bodies and their functions. Pubic hair was out of bounds as a topic of polite discussion, as was any talk of nudity. In those crazy Victorian times, just the briefest mention of pounding German bukkake would see one asked (politely) to leave the dinner party. Such prudes. Even [...]

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