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I'm a physicist and science consultant specialized in optics, lasers and optical engineering. This blog, StarkFX, looks at what applications physics is finding today. Or, if you are looking at my StarkEffects blog, it displays my views about and interest in the interface between society and science.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

World Science?

I recently subscribed to a newsletter. I found it advertised on my website, www.starkeffects.com and had to check it out. It is called "World Science". It claims to send you science information weeks before you'll see it in the newspapers. It is entertaining. Unfortunately, the only newspapers you'll ever see these stories in are the supermarket tabloids.

The first story was great! A genetic defect that turns back the clock on evolution. There was even a video clip showing a victim of this defect. The poor woman was walking around on all fours and babbling some primitive language. I suspect, since the video was supposedly from Turkey, that English would have sounded just as odd to her as her language did to me.

Reading "World Science" is not going to be one of my habits. I'm already less intelligent than I would have been had I skipped the first reading of "World Science" and just read some more spam.

Troy Stark
http://www.starkeffects.com
troy@starkeffects.com

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