NPR's Science Friday was about cephalopods two days ago! I've no time to opine at length, but basically it's awesome and you can take a listen here. It's an interview with Roger Hanlon, who is pretty…

Racist S.O. B. Satoshi Kanazawa said “Asians can’t think”, are raised to be conformist, plagiarize by copying ‘verbatim’  the work of established scientist while sincerely thinking it’s honoring…

GM bacteria from Germany?  Don’t panic, Captain Mainwaring, we’ve got it all under control! Yes, there is indeed a lot of worry in the air, about the potential for escape of Genetically Modified…

Yesterday I mentioned the idea that fishermen killing sharks might have allowed squid to proliferate and eat up some of the smaller fish that fishermen like to catch. What goes around comes around!…

As I am halfway around the world right now, using the magic of the internet and Science 2.0's 'scheduling' function, here is a fun little graphic of 'the universe'.  It shows various sizes of…

In Proofiness - How Gender And Pay Statistics Are Used To Do Bad Things, I noted that some of the statistics regarding gender and pay in science were misconstrued to make it look like science…

In many ways, things here are undoubtedly like they are for countless other families: our kids whine over chores, they bicker with each other, they push each other's buttons countless times a day,…

It's Shark Week! Not that I begrudge the elasmobranchs their ten thousand minutes of fame, but come on, Discovery Channel, you do Shark Week every year. When are you going to switch it up and do…

I wrote an article talking about the spate of "X is awesome" and "Y is bad for you" articles that came out every year and even had a little quiz asking people if they could identify what superfood…

Blogging will be non-existent for three days, and please do not expect me to answer your comments in the various threads -I am going to be on a ship carrying me to Greece, and, God bless it, there is…

I am happy to read from a message by our publication board chair that CMS has reached the important goal of publishing 100 scientific papers. The majority of these are analyses of collision data (75…

I like to think at this blog as a place where both full outsiders and highly knowledgeable insiders coexist and exchange information. I know I often err on the side of producing posts which are…

"Particle Accelerators Full of Spin and Fury, Signifying Something" Standard stuff written well. I particularly liked the end: After some 70 trillion collisions, the Large Hadron Collider has seen no…

My work on gravity received a fatal blow in the Spring of 2007. A patient, creative exploration in the neighborhood of a deep truth might find an alternative expression to dodge the bullet that…

It is always disappointing to see agendas being rationalized by what passes for "research".  A good example occurs in this article examining the impact of smoke-free laws in rural or urban…

Came across this video of comedian Louis CK on Letterman, where he argues that we should add lions as selection pressure on human beings. In his words:    “I think human beings are still…

Two theories that have been making the biological rounds have been group selection which argued for evolution and selection operating "for the good of the group" and the "selfish gene" which argued…

I am told "Transformers: Dark Side Of The Moon" is a good film.  I enjoyed the first movie well enough, even if it was noisy in all of the wrong ways.   The sequel hurt both my eyes and my…

Over the past several years, a growing number of trade associations, foundations and science and engineering companies have started major efforts to get scientists into schools and hopefully inspire…

My car Runs On Snake Oil There are far too many people trying to con money out of ordinary people with offers of gadgets that will supply you forever with free energy. ... we're a wee bit skeptical…