This short post is my first contribution to ScientificBlogging: with it I am relocating my blog here from wordpress. I am thrilled by the opportunity to join a larger group of excellent science…

Tormented cries from mother as her cub is butchered and eaten... Does it pull at your heart strings? Mine, too. A rally of cries about a shark attack generally bring something less warm and fuzzy,…

India is a huge country. It has the richest cultural diversity, at the same time its economic diversity is also staggering. There are extremely rich people and also appalling poorer people. This…

After participating in The Depravity Scale survey (see part 1 of this post for more on the scale and The Rock of Love Bus), I brainstormed with my fellow survey taker for more uses for the depravity…

The Shortest Path Problem in a Dynamic Network. A method is needed by which efficient new network routes can rapidly becalculated to route traffic away from problem paths and nodes. Apossible method…

This is post zero, to be deleted after I check that things are in good order.

I know the science may be good, but it's too hard not to make fun of these research conclusions - at least the out-of-context, oversimplified versions of these conclusions. Look at what we've learned…

Religion and mental health seems to be a double-edged sword. Religion features in a lot of psychotic delusions, but there's also a lot of evidence linking religious belief to better mental health.…

Given my title, I believe this is my first official rant. NASA ran a press conference on STEREO today. As the First 3D Reconstruction of a CME, it... okay, let me pause here. There have been 3D…

Discover has an interview with genius physicist Murray Gell-Mann. Gell-Mann on Heisenberg: But by the time I knew him, although he was not extremely old, he was more or less a crank. On Feynman: [He…

Laurence Arnold has said: The communication between the past and the present is always polluted by interference from the noise of hindsight. So with this ringing in our ears, may I recommend The…

This is the second of a two part blog on commutative encryption.Part one was Using Encryption to Block Spam. In part one, I showed a commutative encryption scheme.  In that scheme, the…

200 new-born in the states of Florida and Georgia having high risk genes for type 1 diabetes are going to be enrolled for a research that would bring out the effect of genetics and the immediate…

That question, specifically, is: "What if a cuttlefish attacked an octopus?" And the answer can be found here.  It's a pretty amazing video.

Grizzly! We reach the end of Babcock Lake, the sixth body we will cross in completing the Bowron Lake circuit, we get prepared for our next portage. After packing up, I get my camera out to take…

A fierce debate is in progress. Human slaughter or natural demise.... Giant beavers, oversized ground sloths, and huge armadillo-like creatures all disappeared within a couple of thousand years — a…

This time I am going to have to declare an interest before starting. Autism Speaks is not an organisation I particularly favour, for the most part because of the nature of their publicity and…

One year is passed after Wheelr poneer in Physics and Astronomy said good by to this motral world and went to a unknown teriotory. How sad it is for loosing a gem of a person. It was on April 13,…

Happy Birthday to you, the sweeties who don't even eat cake! I am honoring here three sweet ones. One that just turned one today. OK I don't even know her but she must be sweet like all baby girls.…

Until a few months ago, the only connection that I was aware of between archaeology and Lego was the fact that I like both of them. But apparently other people do too. I recently played the Lego:…