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The EU Has A Poll About Daylight Saving Time

The European Commission has started a public poll that has the goal of finding out whether Europeans want to keep or abolish daylight saving time. Daylight Savi...

ASMR Has Real Physiological Effects According To New Study

If you’ve stumbled upon the incredibly bizarre but wildly popular world of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) videos on Youtube, you’ll have probably w...

Sci-Hub & the future of publishing: Library Science Talk in Zurich

Here is the recording of a presentation I recently gave on June 26, 2018 at Zentralbibliothek Zürich in Switzerland. The topic is Sci-Hub and the future of publ...

The “Pit of Despair Experiment” Trump is Recreating

Trump has offered immigrant families a Harlowesque choice In the 1970’s, psychologist Harry Harlow ran an experiment that should never have been conducted but i...

England doesn’t know it yet, but it should be celebrating a major victory

Enemies of intellectual dishonesty in public discourse, rejoice! This week Paul Dacre, editor of the UK’s best selling newspaper, the Daily Mail, announced he w...

r/science admins admit routinely deleting top posts

Reddit’s science subreddit is the undisputed front page of popular science on the internet. The subreddit introduces millions of people to high-quality science ...

Looking Out For Friends

A few days ago I lost a best friend. He died far too young. I will always regret not doing more to help him and be there for him through his internal struggles....

How Blockchains Could Fix Science

I began this series by saying: I have a dream for science on Steem. If you haven’t already guessed by now, my dream is for a decentralised, blockchain-based, sc...

Why Science Blogging Needs Saving

You would never guess from reading the newspaper, but much of the very best investigative science journalism today actually originates from blogs. Science blogs...

What Is Steem and Why Do I Think It Could Be Revolutionary?

Around a couple of years ago, after several years of science blogging and watching the demise of blog network after blog network, I took the decision to stop bl...

Step away from the computer game

Source: Pexels Some people can come up with a brilliant idea for a steemit post, then immediately sit down and dig up the required research and reading. Having ...

I Have a Dream for Science on Steem

Hello Steemit, thank you for welcoming me into your blockchain tribe! I’m fairly new here, but I’ve been observing this blockchain for some time and having seen...

A Quick Heads Up

I'm starting an exciting new science academic publishing blockchain crypto project tomorrow at 1PM BST (8AM EDT) Watch this space!...

How the bitcoin boom could help bring legal medical MDMA by 2021

This is my first post on Steemit, a blockchain-based platform where contributions are paid in cryptocurrency based on the votes they receive. I’m a science jour...