On Halloween, your Planter's peanut butter is going to skyrocket in price; as much as 40%.  I predict riots that will make this Wall Street 1% stuff pale in comparison because all of them eat…

In today's world where far too many people already defer spaying/neutering of pets, we have an article that provides another rationalization for those people.  Apparently, we should be concerned…

In the last couple of years STEM organizations from across the nation have come together in an effort to engage the next generation in potential science and engineering careers. Gaining in…

In the last couple of years STEM organizations from across the nation have come together in an effort to engage the next generation in potential science careers. Gaining in popularity rapidly, local…

I'm working to make a list of potential conferences for meeting other Cubesat (picosatellite) builders.  A quick search on 'cubesat conferences' primarily turns up past events and past…

We're hearing a lot about the failures of government and I am on that bandwagon - chronic runaway spending, the foolishness with Gibson guitars, delays for an energy project that helps poor people…

Stem cells by virtue of their potential for self renewal and capacity to differentiate into diverse cell types have remained a primordial force in ensuring evolution of the species and sustenance of…

I sit in the mornings and watch the other four about me, bustling around. I get ready last. With four of us using one bathroom (and the second bathroom being used by the boy and Aphrodite, the foot-…

Gravity is the force conquering the structure of the universe. By recognizing the components of the universe, we are estimating the quantity of components composing the universe through size of…

Science and our legal system intersect frequently and everywhere - climate, health care, intellectual property, you name it. It wouldn't make much sense to hire an environmental lawyer for a case on…

"We consider the scattering of charged W bosons [...] the sum of all diagrams still diverges as s/Mw^2. Heavy leptons cannot help us, so the only solution is to introduce a scalar particle which…

After writing, then discarding, a particularly snarky bit because it was too snarky for even me, I realized I am still due this week's entry.  Fortunately, to my rescue comes Blackboards in Porn…

The news cycle spins quickly, and spinning it does, the news that is. Neutrinos forgotten faster than light speed. What neutrinos? Foxy Knoxy got away without spilling the beans – well done. Stupid…

A few weeks back I flew to Los Angeles to have some meetings about technology and media outside the Science 2.0 world - well, sort of.  A surprising number of people outside science know of…

Two items of tremendous note today, to wit: The 2011 International Cephalopod Awareness Days begin tomorrow! It's no accident that this date also marks TONMOCON, the fourth biannual gathering of…

To say that a system implements a given computation is to say that something about that system - some aspect of its behavior - is described by the computation. It is thus a way of characterizing the…

This TED video of Christoph Adami is about life, and how to look for it. He begins by talking about the apparent difficulty in defining life (click here for a post about inorganic life) (funny that…

Humboldt squid have been fished in Peru for years. The government has now decided to make some new regulations, with noble intent: The Government also aims to ensure the rational and sustainable use…

I didn't need to be persuaded that evolution happened. In fact, upon finding out in my teens that there were people that rejected it, I can say that my reaction was one of utter confusion. Why on…

As a society we tend to fuss about creativity and its role in society.  While there is little doubt that creativity and innovation are immensely important in many endeavors, it is still an open…