Autism Speaks wants us to go blue. I sit here in my 2011 WAAD tee, all in blue, from hair to shoes. I am blue. Blue to celebrate today. Celebrate seems a weird word, doesn't it--what are we…

As a gullible sucker myself, I appreciate the cultural tradition of having one day out of the year when I know not to take anyone seriously. Technologists may produce the most labor-intensive April…

WARS   Predicting that the human race has wars in its future requires no insight. We humans have never had a community that has built a lasting peace. The beliefs of Buddhism have come…

The Autism Blogs Directory has approximately 1,000 blogs, websites, and forums representing autistic bloggers, family members, professionals, and other disability-related bloggers. It's…

This article discusses a new method of mathematical physics, self-field theory (SFT), used to analyze the atom including its nucleus. Like quantum theory, SFT can be used in many other…

I got a private message from Gerhard Adam which went "I'm getting used to being called a moron, etc. but why do they have to pick on the cowboy hat?" Why indeed?  Hats used to be cool but they…

This article looks at the mathematics of Self-Field Theory (SFT) and how it impacts on electromagnetics and thus on physics.  As we saw in the article 'A new mathematics for the hydrogen atom',…

I hear "yeah, but" all day long. I hear it from students at school. I hear it from my children. I read it and see it all over the internet; from autism-land to politics, we have become a nation of…

Yesterday morning, I wrote that the The Canary Party's Ginger Taylor broke the embargo(courtesy LBRB) and revealed the new 1 in 88 rate that the CDC released later that morning. Age of…

Herbal medicine is still the mainstay of about 75-80 per cent of the world population, mainly in the developing countries, for primary health care because of better cultural acceptability, better…

The Hubble Legacy Archive is now open for you to browse ! Thousands of unscrutinized images of the sky as pictured by the Hubble Space Telescope are there for you to browse, reprocess, analyze. They…

One of the more whimsical squid news stories I've seen in a while: A squid, a dog, and a mini-mystery solved at a Minnesota lake."Of course, squid are not found in Minnesota lakes," reports…

Dr. Heidi Ledford at Nature says physicists enjoy more generous funding, more commercial interest and more popular support than biologists.   Thousands of physicists in the United States stopped…

Previous posts, examined possible plant cognitive functions with the Dodder’s parasitism and the complex ability plants have to communicate with other plants and fungi. More impressive are the…

Previous posts, examined possible plant cognitive functions with the Dodder’s parasitism and the complex ability plants have to communicate with other plants and fungi. More impressive are the…

I do not usually shoot of little posts re-tweeting stuff I found, but the total destruction that is David Albert’s New York Times book review “On the Origin of Everything” reviewing “A Universe From…

There are 20,000 miles of pipeline in Nebraska criss-crossing the Ogalalla aquifier.  A company wanted to add 400 more but President Obama overruled scientists and declared the addition…

Acacia catechu Willd. Vernacular Names :- Assam : Kat, Khair, Khoira, Koir ; Bengal : Khayer, Kuth ; Bombay : Khaderi, Khaira, Khera ; Central Provinces : Khair ; Ceylon : Karangall, Kashukutta,…

Although for at least 10 years, since the WMAP satellite first measured the amounts of dark matter in the universe, scientists have known the recipe for the universe (4.5% Matter,22.5% Dark Matter,…

Do you use sunscreen?  If not, you aren't as crazy as those anti-science hippies who are trying to give their kids smallpox or starve poor nations, but you are not exactly up on the literature…