Most conspiracy theories wouldn't gain much traction without unhinged academics: "The most destructive people linked to conspiracy theories and denialism are those with academic appointments - and…

A Science Of Human Language - Part #4 In Part #1of this series, I suggested that a grammar heavily based in syntax was not sufficiently scientific as a general theory of how language functions. Part…

Drosophila can't catch a break.  Even Nature, which never runs a press release about one of its studies without putting 'prestigious' in front of its name, fell prey to a glaring error regarding…

The Bookworm And The Encyclopedias - The Solution Last Monday I posed a simple math puzzle: A set of 10 encyclopedias is sitting on a bookshelf in left-to-right numerical order. Each single volume…

If you happen to be in the San Francisco metropolitan area the week of August 16th, 2009 and can't get enough science, I'll be emcee'ing a symposium on communicating science to the public at the 90th…

During the Miocene and Pliocene, 12-1.6 million years ago, a diverse group of extinct proboscideans, elephant-like animals walked the Earth. Most had four tusks and likely a trunk similar to modern…

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A Science Of Human Language - Part #3 In Part #1of this series, I suggested that a grammar heavily based in syntax was not sufficiently scientific as a general theory of how language functions. Part…

No one disturbs his fellow men with a new view unpunished. - Ernest Mach, "A New Sense", quoted in Edmund Bolles, Galileo's Commandment, p. 27

Here's a 15 minute video of Scientific Blogging featured writer Jane Poynter talking about her 2 years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2, along with what she is doing to save Biosphere 1 (errrr, that…

Not all job rejections are equal. Being turned down from the 'Wally the Whale' fish sandwich stop at age 17, for example, was probably a blessing in disguise. Also humorous, as it was my first…

David Pogue's secrets to his productivity: I use typing-expansion software...I use dictation software...I know where everything is. Years ago, I started using an address-book program that’s now…

Let me introduce myself an environmental activist when I was young now older I am a scientist solving problems. I work every day in my field environmental agriculture lab. I am an expert in various…

Electrical arcs stabbed through the violet dusk. Heated solutions groaned toward their boiling points. Bubbles rose helically through luminous green liquids. Miniature explosions occurred in distant…

More incredible finds from the Messel Pit: "These 49 million-year-old freshwater turtle fossils are believed to have died of poisoning during copulation." (Photograph: Jonathan Blair/Corbis,…

I have a hard time believing this is for real: Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Buffalo Museum of Science say we've been making a mistake using DNA to contend that humans…

Over at the Monkey Cage: Fact: Academicians tend to be politically differentiated according to discipline, with those in the social sciences and humanities on the left, those in the natural sciences…

Stimulated by Michael White  (who just posted his Morning Science Quote,  "Light is the principal means by which we are able to transmit and receive information from objects around us and…

Light is the principal means by which we are able to transmit and receive information from objects around us and throughout the universe.  - Raymond Serway, Physics for Scientists and Engineers…

After the Pandora vase of Berlusconi's private life got opened, there are news trickling out from it every day. In the last few days we learned that the parties thrown by the Italian premier in his…