More bizarre news out of Florida. What do you think this has in common with this? If you answered, "they both look really disturbing," then I can't disagree. But the more pertinent answer is that…

I confess. I am a stem cell scientist.I might even be an evil scientist because you see my lab works with human embryonic stem cells. Hopefully even if I am an evil scientist, I am not an evil…

This just to report progress on the Quantum Randi Challenge. It has changed a lot, so please have a look to see whether you think it is now attractive enough for you to help “internetizing” it, which…

A mystery has emerged in the past three weeks that may have a very simple answer -- but an answer that we're not aware of -- and that's the mystery of what happened to the butterflies? The question…

Recently, New Scientist (with the Royal Academy of Engineering as competition partner) started a poll/competition where readers could send in a brief statement of what they thought would be the 'nex…

The game of quantum mechanics is rigged, but I will let you in on the rules. The wave function has all the information usually written as complex values. Operators are used to grab out different…

Empathy erosion is a logical response. You know it is. Or you wouldn't be able to eat meat. If you turn the dial up all the way on empathy, you end up like that strange offshoot of Hinduism, walking…

"I envy University Professors. They are paid to question people who know nothing but try very hard to say something, while I have to question people who know everything but do their utmost to say…

Way back in 1982 in USA  I had a chance to discuss with the old botanist Laetsch  who published scholarly research paper detailing structure of chloroplasts in C4 plant using electron…

Renewable energy for climate change mitigation andsustainable development. Ashwani Kumar The continued use of fossil fuels willrequire a significant amount of carbon dioxide to be removed by either…

In their seminal paper of 1935, Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) put forward the following criterion, which they considered reasonable: If, without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict…

I discovered several of my articles at http://onbilgi.com/ today, all of them lifted from here, all of them without my name as author, all of them without links back to here. Not only did I find…

A few years back I heard Joy Christian give a talk on his disproof of Bell's theorem, where he explained his idea for an experiment involving two hemispheres with a mass stuck on each. To me it…

The American Tradition Institute would like to know who, besides taxpayers, pays prominent NASA researcher James Hansen, a leading voice in climate change discussions. The American Association for…

I am quite happy today to announce here that there is a new blog to visit, and to bookmark!, for those among you who are interested to know what does a PhD in physics do after he or she graduates. In…

Harry Lonsdale, a 79 year old millionaire scientist, has launched a $50,000 prize to promote research in the origin of life. The prize could potentially be complemented by $2,000,000 (!) of research…

Ponds are interesting things because their boundaries are always changing.  On a very small scale there's a lot of drama, such as the snakes fishing for Mosquito fish (gambusia) trapped in a…

In the immortal Richard Donner classic "Scrooged", the following exchange takes place between Frank, the president of the network, and his boss, Preston: Preston: Do you know how many cats there are…

Yoda, a 14-year old female dog of mixed breed (chihuahua and Chinese crested dog) has won the World's Ugliest Dog competition, held in Northern California. Abandoned behind an apartment building, the…

How could I miss it - and you did too. A very comprehensive article on standardization as a way to reduce environmental pollution has appeared here, and has almost gone unnoticed. I think it is worth…