These are my links for September 21st 2009 through October 2nd 2009:
- Subliminal advertising really does work, claim scientists – Telegraph – "Subliminal advertising really does work, claim scientists who found that people subconsciously respond to flashed messages – especially if they are negative. "
- Ratchet-like genetic mutations make evolution irreversible | Eureka! Science News – "A University of Oregon research team has found that evolution can never go backwards, because the paths to the genes once present in our ancestors are forever blocked."
- Dan Brown swaps pseudohistory for pseudoscience | Salon Books – With "The Lost Symbol," his "Da Vinci" follow-up, Brown spins a wild Freemason conspiracy — then never solves it
- Brunel, Locke and Stephenson: the engineering giants who shaped our world – Telegraph – "Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Joseph Locke and Robert Stephenson are past giants of engineering whose legacy remains one hundred and fifty years on"
- Superstitions stay with us from childhood | COSMOS magazine – "Superstitious beliefs we hold as adults may be a by-product of the processes we use to make sense of the world around us as children, according to a novel hypothesis."
