If I ask a science audience to guess, off the tops of our collective heads, which state would hold an irrational science position that was not only boneheaded but downright dangerous to each other…

I would show you pieces of pie, but no pie has stayed around long enough in this house to snap a picture of it. I tell you what  I'll do for my readers: when I'm shopping today, I'll buy some.…

Today's guess of the plot will be very poor of comments on my side, for reasons I will disclose in due time. Also, it is unfortunately a rather expert-only one, since it represents something that…

Okay, it's not really fair to call it a scam, but I just couldn't resist the alliteration. Here's what they say: Squid skin is normally thrown away, but the Fisheries Research Institute [of Taiwan]…

Starting from 1982 when I attended 2nd EU biomass conference in Berlin ICC for the first time till this 19th EU in a span of 30 years Biomass has received greater interest from EU and greater…

Othar Hansson, Software Engineer at Google.com writes: *** Today we're beginning to support authorship markup -- a way to connect authors with their content on the web. We are experimenting with…

One of my friends recently asked for help in designing a giant squid costume to be worn by multiple people. So I sketched this up: In case you can't read my AMAZING handwriting, here's the text: -…

Here, for completeness, is the last in this group about the BBC series  All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace A series of films exploring the idea that we have been colonised by the…

Most people know that we have tried to judge what may happen during global warming by creating gigantic models of the Earth system, and see how it responds to forcing from different factors. Another…

There are linear field equations of gravity called gravitomagnetism. It starts from the best starting place we have, general relativity. At the end of my talk last year at the 13th Eastern Gravity…

Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Glover jokes it is time to put a special mark on global warming skeptics - I assume he is joking, since he recognizes that is a little too Nazi creepy even for…

Wooo! I won a bloggy award thing from Steve Jackson Games! If you're not familiar with them, you should be. Zombies! Conspiracy! Cthulhu! What more could you ask for? Oh yeah, and hackers too.…

I suspect a lot of people will be posting this (today's SMBC), but hey, I will totally jump on that bandwagon, If only it was that easy! People don't subscribe to homeopathy for logical reasons…

Democracy should never be given for granted. So if you are given a chance to cast a vote, you should not overlook the fact that voting is both your duty toward your country, and a right you need to…

I heard recently on QI that apparently there was a "vacant" position in a museum somewhere for a skeleton of a human to be kept, to be used as the holotype - the reference specimen of Homo sapiens. (…

Argh it's taking me longer than I thought to write this fisheries post! Quick a distraction--Did you know that June 1st was Kraken Day over at Deep Sea News? Go read all their posts! There was one…

If a particle satisfies the minimum mandated by the uncertainty relation and is subject to no force, the fuzziness of its momentum causes the fuzziness of its position to increase, while the…

Recent articles are chronologically at: column. But here, articles are categorized thematically. Topics are in no particular order, starting with Physics before going to Consciousness, Drugs, Atheism…

Americans spend what I consider a long time getting breakfast, though nutritionists say it is "the most important meal of the day" - 13 minutes a day, it turns out.   I say a long time because…

Strawberries are going to be smaller and other crops with low yields due to poor rains and high temperature is it true for most of europe I read this news in a news paper here in europe.