Are you ready for a treat? Have you ever wished you could be with Charles Darwin on his travels just for one day? Perhaps -- when he first saw immense glaciers? Well, I've arranged…

Prepare to feel very claustrophobic.  My several recent blogs,  detail  unique black hole collision scenarios, to reprise these,   when three black holes collide in linear…

Are you seeking to serve humanity as a scientist but in a new way? This might well be your cup of tea: AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition. AAAS, whose mission is "to advance…

I like stirring, so here is this recent University Press Release (27 January 2009): 'Censoring' language is key to female survival in the boardroom New research from the University of Reading argues…

I like stirring, so here is this recent University Press Release (27 January 2009): 'Censoring' language is key to female survival in the boardroom New research from the University of Reading argues…

This is so cool (and the original source is here, but you have to scroll down a while to get to it).  Just don't let it get out to those crazy people who think that scientists don't do anything…

"It is in the realm of the public interest for society to help support our efforts," Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and one of the co-chairs of Obama's Council of Advisors on Science…

Has anyone else had that cold that lasts about three or four weeks? It's going around out here and I'm finally starting to get over it. Too bad I didn't know about the wonder flu cure Oscillococcinum…

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is getting a new president as well: Nobel laureate Peter Agre. He tells the New York Times that scientists need to get involved as…

I read this in today's Daily Telegraph: Campaigns to protect native species 'are racist' Have a read(LINK), and don't you think he is carrying things too far?  Although I have heard groundsmen…

Obama is playing good cop to Bush's bad cop, letting EPA know that his administration will not deny facts but be guided by them.Continuing efforts to overturn more of the last administration's…

From the designer Mark Weaver (Hat tip: Morbid Anatomy)

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The world got lucky on February 12th, 1809 with the birth of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. In the United States, Lincoln's 200th birthday will be celebrated in acknowledgement that he was…

This fascinating article at Scientific American, about human and animal consciousness, contains the following passage:"In humans, the short-term storage of symbolic information—as when you enter an…

In a Times News Review interview, Marcus du Sautoy, our new Oxford University Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, says: I became a mathematician and not a scientist because science…

For those of you who still are not reading Evolution: Education and Outreach, here's another reason to check it out. Eugenie Scott and Glenn Branch of the National Center for Science Education have a…

Conservatives "cling to their guns and god" and Liberals cling to their "good will" and government The further a culture moves from its religion the closer it moves to its government. Humans…

Here's some good news: The ultimate goal for the use of GRNOPC1 is restore spinal cord function by injecting hESC-derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cells directly into the patient’s injured spinal…

Do you enjoy hunting or eating seafood?  If so, then you are an agent of detrimental evolutionary change. In the past, I've never thought about how my hunting hobby shapes the evolution of the…