A Brit Celebrates July 4th I've only been writing here for just over a year.  From day one I have been made to feel very welcome, and I want to thank everyone here and all of my readers for that…

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is nothing but a plain disaster. It was of course a topic at ESA's Living Planet Symposium in Bergen this week, where use of satellites to help mitigate this…

Scientific Blogging has a post up, as does Science Daily, that just gets it wrong. Here's where it seems to have gone wrong: the original press release. Glitches happen (like not being…

The nation who passes the ball to the fellow players wins the world cup ? Its team work and working together. Come together to win. Its friendship and brother hood that will win in the world and so…

Total Football Versus The Beautiful Game Anyone who predicted Brazil would not be the World Cup winner, much less get beaten in the quarter-finals, was just being contrarian.  Virtually no…

We've all heard all about how the ice sheets (Greenland, Antarctica, glaciers) melting will result in sea level rise. One could easily believe that it is a one-to-one correlation between diminishing…

Here’s another cute gadget, shown to us in the NY Times Gadgetwise blog: Size AA rechargeable batteries with built-in USB plugs, so you can plug the batteries directly into your computer to charge…

I have a theory (not like a science theory… more like a personal theory) about patriarchies (male led cultures) – they don’t exist. I suppose, on the face of it, many human cultures appear to be…

Through a casual browsing of the Arxiv's hep-ph section, I got to read the following title: "CAMORRA: A C++ Library for Recursive Computation of Particle Scattering Amplitudes" Authors are R.Kleiss…

Satellites are being used to look at practically everything you can think of. Well, maybe not. But if you take a single subject like ice, it is amazing how many ways you can look at it with a…

Here’s an amusing little device that Eric Taub writes about in the New York Times: All of this is why a new product from Zomm may wind up hitting a nerve. A small electronic disc that fits on a key…

ESA and friends are celebrating the success of the Living Planet program in Bergen Norway this week. It cannot be described as anything but a success actually, with a number of new advanced and…

X-ray in characterization techniques 1. X-ray      X-ray is a form of electromagnetic wave with wavelength in the range of 10 to 0.01 nm and energies in the range of 120 eV to 120…

(updated - more formal, removed some parts and improved general clarity) Over years, I come again and again back to Halting Problem and it's unsolvability ..now I have created a system, which is…

I introduce the term "topological identity of computer programs" and show it in relation to halting problem and similar problems - what we need to detect in code to suspect it? I think that…

Aschner and Ceccatelli (2010) review the relevant data for thimerosal as a cause of autism. They conclude there is "no reliable data indicating that administration of vaccines containing thimerosal…

A subtle rainy morning of June sets in with enduring smell of the soil waking me up. A life of a scientist does not begin with a cup of coffee, but with engaging emails. Just back from a hectic work…

Remote access ... for lab equipment?     Labshare Australia wants to create a shared network of remote laboratories.  Yep, with costs going up - and science and hospitals are two…

Let's say we have 1D cellular automata, bounded at beginning. The following is solution for halting problem - mathematically unproven, somewhat open here and there, but basically very near to what I…

I have gotten the dig dates, which will be the last two weeks in July,  and we have the students we'll be working with all signed up. They appear to be a great group of kids, I honestly can't…