While my late Professor Dr Neumann was showing me a museum on the outskirt of a German town , the instruments to fight each other were swords . He commented " The most significant progress makind has…

This week's friday fossil is Tribrachidium. Tribrachidium is from that oddest of time periods, the Ediacaran, and because of that we can partly excuse it for its weirdness. It's basically an Isle of…

"The observed exclusion limit is found from the point where the 95% quantile (dottedline) crosses the median value of the distribution of Q values for the QCD prediction(dashed line). This occurs at…

A new bill, sponsored by Alabama Congresswoman Martha Roby, is going up before Congress - HR 205, The Geometric Simplification Act, which declares the Euclidean mathematical constant of pi to be…

Watch the videos in this YouTube channel carefully: http://www.youtube.com/user/SaveLibya?feature=chclk and you will realize that the people being mowed down in the street are by and large kids, 35…

What do you get when you are against fighting and for talking with crazy dictators while you are running for high office, yet decide to fight the elected leader of a country which is no threat to…

In the first post I introduced a view on 'complexity thinking' which presupposes a life-world where ambiguity, uncertainty, indeterminacy and other hard to grasp concepts play an important role, both…

When I was student at University of Rajasthan and lived in Gokhle hostel room number 6 in 1965 there was strong debate on nuclear reactors, nuclear energy, nuclear power, nuclear non proliferation…

Methodological Stuff: 1. Introduction 2: Patterns3: Patterns, Objectivity and Truth4: Patterns and Processes The Pattern Library: A pattern of Difference 2: A Pattern of Feedback It has been a year…

This might become the title of a series of posts, much like my "say of the week" series. In fact, the Large Hadron Collider is back in operation since earlier this month, and the instantaneous…

How many beans make five? 6.25 Caveat: the above answer is only a ballpark statistical assumption. In many jurisdictions there are statutory requirements relating to the sale of goods.  Of…

There has clearly been enough controversy around the risks and hazards created by the Fukushima reactor problems over the past days.  Part of the controversy seems to originate with the idea…

The New York Times has not just gone astray with its payment scheme; it’s gone completely off the deep end, gotten lost in the forest, fallen off the cliff and into a pit, and is knee-deep in any…

Back in October I made my picks for the hotly contested Etsy/NASA contest.  And now the winners are announced.  Neither of my picks (stenciled glass bottles and wooden toy blocks for alien…

As we are already talking about light bulb jokes, the many useless comments to my rather more serious articles lately got me to compile the answer to the following question, although it is certainly…

Coastal areas and inland water bodies , salt marshes have their own flora and fauna. High tides and low tides have their role to play. During monsoon season rain water allows the growth of certain…

I'll confess it. Even though they're the divas of the ocean, the quintessential charismatic megafauna, even though they overshadow all the other weird and wonderful marine life, I still like whales.…

Rosa alba Linn. Rosaceae Stem,flowers It is cultivated to some extent in Bulgaria and Turkey for extraction of oil (otto) from the flowers. Common Uses . The flower is bitter, acrid, pungent,…

Yesterday I had to explain what a light bulb joke is - to somebody from Mongolia – they seem to not have discovered that joke yet or don’t find it funny. The joke in question was already highly on…

Friday night a storm moves in. Raindrops start to lazily fall. Lightning lights the night sky (but eludes the camera). The clouds reveal their power. They loom overhead. The clouds remain on…