The name of George Augustus Linhart is in fact "widely unknown". In effect, he was a Viennese-born USA-American physicist-chemist, partially associated with the Gilbert Newton Lewis' school of…

Okay, this is just bizarre. There's this "anti-aging consumer website," right? And they've just instituted an annual supplement award, called the "You Can't Be Serious" Award.  The award,…

The 99%, those people protesting current government and corporate greed, think banks are the problem, yet they don't seem to realize banks aren't the biggest problem - the government that enables…

In the OPERA experiment, the distance between CERN and Gran Sasso was approximately 450 miles. The difference between the neutrino arrival and the calculated speed of light was approximately 60…

The following entries are an exchange between myself and Helen Barratt regarding superluminal neutrinos and related topics.  I have removed them to this archive for anyone that wants to peruse…

In a Nature paper published Oct. 26 by Sicardy et al from the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, Pluto was promoted to the ninth largest body orbiting the Sun. Its evil dwarf…

Once in 737,000 times. That's how frequently happens what I saw yesterday evening, playing poker with my kids.  We were playing with eights and up since we were three, so 28 cards. And Filippo…

The phylogeny of the nervous system has been very well understood by evolutionary neuroscience. Since the first self-defense reactions (irritability) of the unicelular organisms, going through the…

Here's a little history, since some of my students are starting to look me up on the web.  It's also a story about how life is so weird that, if you wrote about it in a movie, the audience would…

I know that there are plenty of liberals and progressives that are scientific whacko's and embrace many anti-scientific sentiments.  I'm certainly not about to defend them, but .... Something…

I've been hearing about issues with seafood labeling (and mislabeling) for years. As it turns out, if you don't have a PCR machine in your kitchen, there's no way to know if the red snapper you…

As you circle Earth from your polar-orbiting perch 512 miles above, may your daily output of 4 terabytes of data enable the Science 2.0 community to help educate the masses about climate change.…

In the following TED-talk, cancer researcher Jay Bradner talks about the work in going on in his lab. How they approach understanding the way cancer works, how they proceed in designing potential…

The Hayward fault runs smack dab through the UC Berkeley football stadium; it is being retrofitted this year. In the last week, there have been 3 earthquakes on or near the campus, with a magnitude…

On Nov. 8th, Mississippi will vote on a proposed 'personhood' constitutional amendment that will outlaw the destruction of embryos created in laboratories. The amendment has been endorsed by both…

A couple of months ago, I picked up on the news that Archaeopteryx had been rebumped in its* phylogeny to now sit among the dromeosaurs. I also mentioned near the end... I will say this, though: don'…

Mix together 1) A badly broken medical device approval system (a classic House of Cards exemplified by the rising incidence of god-awful complications from metal on metal hip replacements) with 2)…

According to the Wikipedia, the Pleiades is a cluster of middle-aged hot stars located in the constellation of Taurus. My nominees are the following (all born Taurus and in no particular order…

In August of 2010, the nebula known as Ira's Ghost was photographed by the Hubble Telescope within the constellation Taurus. First discovered in 1983, it is a "reflection nebula" lit by an external…

Young people always think the previous generations were more conservative, repressed, etc.  Two years ago one young dummy in journalism even referred to 'the more conservative 1970s', which is…