One of the favorite themes in transhumanist discussions is considering the melding of human intellect with "machine intelligence" to arrive at superhuman abilities.   Right from the beginning we…

No matter how bad things get, there's always something trivial we can completely take out of its big picture context and blow up into something dramatic.   Mountains, molehills and all that.…

Food and Biofuel Production: New Challenges Ahead Energy is a crucial and vital ingredient for the modern development of economic activities of our society. It provides services for cooking, space…

It is estimated that biomass covers currently up to 15% of the world energy demand, almost 1/3 of all energy consumption in the Less-Developed Countries. This rate was over the last years rather…

Herbs and human health can never be separated. Medicinal plants are now in a "come back" phase with the last two decades seeing people shifting their focus back to the forgotten traditional natural…

My ancestors have used this plant for generations.  The fine qualities it has to offer us, is by far,  more than just a spice or seasoning.  but that is how I have been sharing it, for…

Man is going away from nature and many of the present day diseases are life style diseases. its is important to know more about the plants of our surroundings to which man as an evolved animal (sorry…

  Cassia sena Linn  ( C. senna Linn. var. senna syn. C. acutifolia  Delile; C.    angustifolia  Vahl; C. obovata  Baker Family  Fabaceae (Caesalpiniaceae…

Asparagus adscendens  Foxb.( Liliaceae)White tuberous roots have aphrodiasic functions. Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh,  and Kumaun up to an altitude of 1,500 m. Tubers boiled in milk and…

Sometimes I forget that my time constraints force me to make a choice between writing on my blog and reading other people's, and so I start reading random stuff in physics blogs I am acquainted with,…

Some people believe in fate, others don’t. I do and I don’t. I may seem at times as if invisible fingers move us about like puppets on strings. But for sure, we are not born to be dragged along. We…

This applies to many facets of life, including scientific experimentation: "Things are getting worse faster than I can lower my standards."

Sadly, this is probably accurate for a good number of us... As is this... For the physicists among us: And the geologists: And the microbiologists: And for the high-schooler in all of us:  …

Belemnoteuthis antiquus is technically not a squid, but a belemnite. Belemnites were the first cephalopods (as far as we know) to develop the ingeniously internalized shell that led to the radiation…

As a relaxing Friday treat, here are two science-related webtoons from occasionally NSFW  Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.  Fortunately, these two are appropriate for all ages.  We…

Welcome to Traceback, where I find articles other people have written on Project Calliope.  Having publically announced less than a week ago and with just 2 pieces written, I can safely…

This story caught my eye.  "China currently accounts for 93 percent of production of so-called rare earth elements — and more than 99 percent of the output for two of these elements, dysprosium…

Not really, but Paul Krugman is laying out some criticism of economics that's in the same spirit of my recent criticisms of networks and computational biology. "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?":…

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was closed Monday as wildfires came within two miles of the facility.  The decision to give most of the 5,000 employees the day off was made Sunday evening.…

In February of 2010, Scientific Blogging, the flagship of Science 2.0, will turn 3 years old.   Yep, you all are getting old.   But by then it will have changed, even from what it looks…