If you've ever splurged on more expensive grass seed in hopes of a better lawn, you may have been derailed by the frustratingly long time it takes to actually grow once planted. Up in New England, we…

Ok, I promise - my next post here will be a highly interesting article on the status of searches for new heavy Z bosons. In the meantime, however, I allow myself another "personal" post. After an…

A question occurred to me the other day, which was to consider how science might have developed differently had humans possessed different senses.  As an example, humans are significantly visual…

I’ve been having a peek at the Science Codex, and come across this cluster of articles. Gesturing while talking helps change your thoughts New research says words, gestures translated by same brain…

The Mystery of Entropy (1)     What is entropy and what does entropy have to do with order and disorder? We know what order is. The concepts of order and disorder have been part of our…

In case you haven't noticed, there is a new paper in the arxiv which you should not ignore if you are doing Higgs physics at the LHC. Of course, most of you are not involved in this, but still, it…

One of the more commonly known facts about squid is that they squirt ink. When I ask kids, "Why do you think they do that?" the answer is usually "to escape predators" or something similar. This…

2011 is the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity and I am thinking a blog of the puzzle would be a timely topic. When I was 17 I prayed to God for a challenge worthy of the skills…

Happy New Year, and welcome to the first "Where on Google Earth" (WoGE) of 2011.  I was shocked to find out that my guess at WoGE #245 was correct, (Plymouth, Montserrat being the most post…

Record setting year for highs and lows - global warming doesn't just mean hot, people.H/t Toothpaste for Dinner

Seems to be a time for retrospectives! I couldn't resist the chance to muse on the history of Squid A Day . . . I started posting sixteen months ago, on September 1st, 2009, having been brought to…

NEW THEORIES OF COSMOLOGY for OPEN DISCUSSION      History of the science always showed that the science is like a mirage. People will think that science has reached to an…

This is the second of two parts. Read part one here In this discussion we will attempt to perfect the definition of eudaemonia by replacing the word "flourishment" with the word "promotive."…

In this first of two installments defining eudaemonia we will attempt the impossible, circumnavigating the sphere of "the good." For something to be eudaemonic it must be conducive to our happiness…

"2010 was a banner year for science news and also a good one for Science's news department. This year, our reporting team garnered six awards for stories published in the magazine or online. You…

I know that some of the visitors of this blog are surprised to find personal stuff in my column every now and then. However, a blog is an online diary, and I do leave here my personal thoughts if I…

The sudden switch from one to another provider of visit statistics last September prevents an accurate assessment of how this blog fared in 2010. However I can collect some information from some in…

Strange but true! Oil supertankers cool themselves by pumping water from the ocean through their overheated innards, but as it turns out, there's more than just water in the ocean. Market squid have…

Will your new year start with a BANG? Well, it might, if you bring it in with this molecule.  This is trinitramide, a compound newly synthesized at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in…

Aravalli hills are around 600 km long and cover very rich diversity due to their peculiar location . However unlike temperate hills this hill range passes through hostile climate of Rajasthan and…