http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 07:17:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/why-cant-we-prevent-asteroid.html http://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/why-cant-we-prevent-asteroid.html#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:38:24 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=222215 Asteroids: Yet more evidence that (as a society) we aren't very good at prioritizing preventative measures against long-term risks.]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/03/29/why-cant-we-prevent-asteroid.html/feed 8 http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/the-other-problem-with-fake-va.html http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/the-other-problem-with-fake-va.html#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:53:37 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=220194 fake scares (and efforts to debunk them) are getting in the way of scientists publishing real evidence about actual problems with certain vaccines. These aren't the kind of broad "vaccines are poison" claims you're familiar with. Instead, we're talking about legitimate science documenting side effects that are usually very rare, but still have an impact on certain subsets of the population and need to be addressed. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/the-other-problem-with-fake-va.html/feed 5 http://boingboing.net/2012/10/09/follow-along-as-felix-baumgert.html http://boingboing.net/2012/10/09/follow-along-as-felix-baumgert.html#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:32:09 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=186069 Jennifer Bogo is on site and live blogging the whole thing. As of 12:18 Central time, Baumgartner was in his capsule and preparing for the inflation of the balloon that will carry him into the stratosphere. From which he will jump. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/10/09/follow-along-as-felix-baumgert.html/feed 8