With virtual keyboards so common, it's should be easy for alternative, more efficient keyboard layouts to make headway, since, as we've all heard, the default QWERTY layout was designed to slow…

In the 1980s, computer generated characters were the rage so people were always looking for a way to use them in films, regardless of whether or not it helped or hurt the story.   So it goes…

Let it be clear on this publically, to show I am not kidding: there is a scientology ad on the right column today. If that is not gone by tomorrow from here, I will.

For once! Check it out: the colossal squid gets pride of place as the first entry in the Daily Mail's "Monster mutant animals" photo gallery. This species is believed to be the largest in the squid…

Statistically, whichever of these you are not will be funny.   The one you are, not so much.

Me, you and we... thats what the bacteria talk! Even more, like different people and races have different languages, different bacteria use different chemical 'words'. Broadly classifying, the gram…

Papua New Guinea is a treasure trove of new species - 24 new species of frogs, 2 new mammals, and nearly a hundred new insects, just from expeditions to PNG's Nakanai and Muller mountain ranges. I…

A Census of Marine Life expedition discovered a new character for the Mr. Men and Little Miss series - "Mr. Blobby," the fathead sculpin fish, lives in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans at…

National Geographic's Space Photos This Week is akin to dangling a shiny object in front of a kitten - the kitten may not knowledgeably be able to discuss the refractive index of said object, but it…

A few days back, it being the Halloween season (at least in America - do other cultures indulge in pagan madness of this sort?) I saw, on some social network or another, a neat carved pumpkin that…

I get unsolicited mail: ProEvo: Pro Evolution - Guideline for an Age of Joy Being on a variety of evolution vs creationism mailing lists, I wasn't initially surprised to receive an apparently…

Wait. Which one? Three, yes three, separate books with kraken in the title came out this year: China Mieville's Kraken, fiction of the New Weird literary movement. I understand it does legitimately…

The worst thing government has done is get into the recycling business but even worse than that is over-doing it.   Where I live, the local government recently started 'separating' garbage,…

Swamped by my course of Subnuclear Gauge Physics, I have little time left to surf the web and keep an eye on what happens in the blogs I usually visit. Nevertheless, today is Saturday and I have…

The National Mall, that is. The inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival is going out with a bang this weekend. And by "bang" I mean "Grand Finale Expo," featuring hands-on science exhibits…

If you are in the Washington, D.C. and only have 48 hours to kill, I have bad news - the USA Science&Engineering Festival has likely packed an entire month of good stuff into this weekend, so you…

Many alternative Bio Diesel fuels have been shown to have better exhaust emissions than traditional Diesel fuel. Jatropha Bio diesel holds promise as fuel alternatives for diesel engine because :-…

So, one time for my middle school gym class I was required to write an essay about a sport. Any sport. Unfortunately, I hated all sports. Fortunately, I was blessed with a creative spirit, so I…

Jessica Hilo writes in Miller-McCune, during an extensive analogy between bacteria and Mafia: Off land, the Vibrio family is a spritely bunch. They are one of few bacteria that can communicate…

I get quite a lot of press releases, as you can imagine.  Dozens or hundreds depending on the day.  Most are relevant, like the embargoed stuff from Cell or Nature (we don't get those from…