Science In Action

I'm not sure why I stopped updating this blog some time ago, and I'm not sure why I'm doing it now, except that I have insomnia and was up reading cnn.com, and on the very front page of that same publication read the following two headlines:


Men want hot women, study confirms

A team at Indiana U apparently came to this conclusion by studying 26 men and 20 women at a speed dating event in Munich Germany. Hmm...I wonder if that trip to Europe was paid out of the research grant.


Study: rock stars more likely to die young


Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University studied 1064 stars from the "rock, punk, rap, R&B, electronic and new age genres in the 'All Time Top 1,000' albums published in 2000." They came to the conclusion that a lot of rock stars die from drugs and stuff.