When I say 'stop eating chocolate or you may die' it is in theory, as there have been no recorded cases that I could find, so generally you need not worry. Thus, if you are sure you’re human you…

    Proton Therapy (PT) is a high-quality radiation therapy and initially used to treat  human patients in Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. For about 50 years of its use in treating…

In considering some of the comments made on the original posting, I realized that there were some variations and refinements in discussing supply and demand that warranted additional consideration.…

Bertrand Russell was frequently abused as a child by his parents and elders with the titling piece of snark to this blog entry. While not a particular Russell fan (though he was a spectacularly clear…

Recently, there has been an outburst of data from Virtual Telescopes made by linking a number of radio telescopes to create continent wide virtual dishes. While the technique offers astronomers…

    Wilkinson, DA (2006). High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy quality assurance: a practical guide. Biomedical Imaging and Interventional Journal, pages 1-7.     The…

Sample Radiation Protection and Safety/ALARA Program based on Philippine Perspective Management CommitmentStatement from the management. I. Organization and ResponsibilitiesChairVice-ChairBoard…

    Liu, L., Prasad, S., Bassano, J.H., Keshler, B., Hahn, S. (2004). A dwell position verification method for high dose rate brachytherapy. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics…

When your famous exports are Italian mobsters, meatball hoagies, and the horrid track suit + gold chain look, and more recently corrupt mayors/rabbis, you pounce on anything that can give you a…

How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper, 2nd ed.  by Björn Gustavii link Copyright Gustavii 2003, 2008 ISBN-13978-0-511-39463-8 About the Author BJÖRN GUSTAVII became an editor of Acta…

It’s 40 years this week since the Apollo astronauts landed on the moon. Analysis of the tapes shows that Neil Armstrong did say “small step for a man” – and not “small step for man” – though he said…

Ministry Of Silly Tweets It could only happen in Britain.  Or the U.S.  Or just about anywhere where you find bureaucrats, which is just about everywhere, I suppose. A Whitehall…

Now we can contain whales in our starships!(sorry for just pasting and running, really busy...) "Scientists claim to have created a form of aluminum that's nearly transparent to extreme ultraviolet…

This really takes the cake - or, the rice krispies, as it were. As Josh so cleverly described, General Mills took one for the team when FDA sent a warning letter about the claim on GM's Cheerios box…

Vindication! For all of you fake-bake tanners in high school who spent countless hours and money in tanning beds thinking you looked so much better with tan skin, there is an additional layer of…

An exercise performed in class one fall afternoon to demonstrate the helplessness of the terminally ill has left me with much to ponder.  If I knew in advance that death was near, what five…

Thanks to Seth MacFarlane, we can all shake hands and be friends again, as he's solved the evolution versus creationism debate - it's both!

Medieval Alphabet Book Stays In Britain A unique alphabet book, offering a selection of spectacular and bizarre fonts to the luxury medieval manuscript illuminator stuck for inspiration, has been…

On the Big Ideas Blog there is a post about the different types of reasoning, Analytic vs. Synthetic, and their relevance to the existence or non-existence of God.  But, my favorite passage was…

"Non ho mai chiesto di occuparmi di mafia. Ci sono entrato per caso. E poi ci sono rimasto per un problema morale. La gente mi moriva attorno" (I never asked to work on mafia. I got to do it by…