Biocentrism - life and consciousness are the bottom line in understanding the universe Biology must be first among sciences in a theory of everything Consciousness is a physics problem Strange…

A Grammar of Questions. Quistic grammar is based on what I believe to be the biological basis of language in the brain: a set of models of our internal and external environment, specifically…

I Russell Ade have concluded my testing for fallout generated by above ground testing of nuclear weapons in the Independence County, Arkansas area. Just to get you up to speed on what's been…

There are very few lovers of truth, for truth's sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there…

One time, I was on vacation with my parents and we went to some garden. Oh man, I hate gardens. But that's not the point. The point is that the garden had some alpacas just hanging out, and this…

I just came across this little gem on the QED blog: De Wiskundige en de CanyonDon't worry - it's in English! Enjoy!  :)

What is Language ? We are tool-using social  animals. The most powerful tool known is the one we use to build every other tool: language - spoken or written. But tools can be used with little or…

In thirty minutes (4 PM Chicago time) a live streaming of the Omega_b discovery by CDF will be broadcast at this link: http://vms-db-srv.fnal.gov/fmi/xsl/VMS_Site_2/000Return/video/r_live.xsl Please…

Finishing my series of comments on the New Scientist magazine series “Eight things you didn’t know about the internet”, we have question 8, “Could we shut the net down?”, by Michael Brooks. It’s not…

Good news today. Yesterday afternoon Werner Faymann, the Austrian Federal Chancellor, announced that Austria will not leave CERN, as previously suggested. An official confirmation of this decision…

Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have great…

Over at Wired, read about gadgets losing their luster: When Arthur C. Clarke went to the great geosynchronous orbit in the sky last year, he left behind a huge legacy, not least of which was a quote…

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05182009/business/mags_ads_plunge_169779.htm Declining advertising continues to rock monthly magazines, which have seen their ad-page count tumble 23 percent for year-to-…

It appears that there is still a bit of a controversy and disconnect between the ideas in evolution relating to selfishness, cooperation, and altruism. In this series of articles, it is my intent to…

Anybody who wants to learn how to write a computer program is faced with a bewildering variety of programming languages.  The reasons for having so many computer languages are partly logical,…

Part 7 of my series of comments on the New Scientist magazine series “Eight things you didn’t know about the internet” goes into the “carbon footprint” of the Internet: “Is the net hurting the…

The recent Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco just held its annual meeting in Ireland; some fascinating research is happening all over the world. Researchers are looking at SNPs for…

The swine flu is spreading silently and slowly throughout the World, but it does not make headlines any more -or not yet again, at least. So far, a total of 8565 cases have been reported in five…

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric revels the organization of the entire tapestry. - Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, p.34

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