Philosophically, it stands to reason that everything that exists has a cause related to its existence. Religion, as you might expect, came up with that axiom. We know the universe exists and that…

The Giant's Causeway is a spectacular expanse of interlocking hexagonal basalt columns formed from volcanic eruptions during the Paleocene some 50-60 million years ago. These columns tell a story of…

In December 1979, smallpox was officially declared eradicated but it had already happened by then, thanks to the efforts of giants like Drs. Don Henderson and Bill Foege, not to mention 150,000…

Native Hawaiians have legit land use grievances but those have nothing to do with the Thirty Meter Telescope planned and approved twice over ten years to be built atop Mauna Kea.  Astronomers…

Z, a quantity known as the partition function in statistical thermodynamics and the generating functional in quantum field theory tell us that we are exactly right about black hole thermodynamics.…

Edwin Kim, M.D., and colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a new and effective treatment for patients suffering from peanut allergy. The treatment is called…

A critical examination of the three main claims made by anti TMT protestors.  Here are brief rebuttals to their sacredness and sovereignty claims and lastly a scientific reason why building…

No, the Amazon does not produce 20% of the Earths oxygen.  The real value is more like 5% to 6%.  This is NOT to minimize how bad it is to have out of control wildfires.  This is to…

eyesalve. It consists of two species of onion, wine, and cow bile.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11504166/Anglo-Saxo...

When I was a youngster, I typed on a 1950s portable typewriter.  I was not a hipster, I was poor. But I loved to write. When I got older our school had a computer lab but typing out…

The following table shows differences in responses to the science module of items deployed by the GSS during 2004 and 2006* by partisan identification. Some of the questions are inverted for viewer…

A few years ago, a study by the British Cheese Board queried 200 volunteers on whether or not they had nightmares after eating cheese prior to bedtime. Nary a one did.  Why would they ask such a…

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Americans love tradition and there is no greater tradition than the idea that if you can't be fired, you will do better work. Okay, that is actually the antithesis of America, but in the late 1700s…

What is sure to happen, since 50% of science funding is politically controlled, is that a giant wave of new PhDs will get teary stories on the floor of Congress and outraged Senators declaring that X…

Making fun of Michele Bachmann, when NCCAM is zealously protected by Democrats, only tell us how you vote. In December of 2012 when various members of Congress ranted at the CDC about vaccines and…

If you want to go into the clergy, study science It may sound strange to young scientists ot today who are thoroughly steeped in the culture wars before they get a bachelor's degree, but…

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/10030/title/What-P... Decades on, bacterium’s discovery feted as paragon of basic science MADISON, Wis. – Over time, the esoteric and sometimes…

And there is the beauty and the ugliness of it. Politicians, especially the ones you vote for, don't need to give you more funding because you are not going anywhere. It's the same mentality the WWE…

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