Every six months or so, I come home to find a stack of new phone books waiting for me by my front door.  My shoulders slump as soon as I catch sight of them - because honestly, I practically…

I have watched two so far of a BBC2 TV series The City Uncovered with Evan Davis, of which the three parts are: Banks and How to Break Them: Evan returns to first principles, and explains exactly…

Being in college is somewhat hard, stressful, and fun. We does have a lot of coursework such as term paper, research paper, and some architecture students project (you know what i mean). I saw an…

Charles Darwin often gets lumped together with Karl Marx in an effort to ascribe the ills of the 20th century to Darwin's ideas about evolution. But science writer Matt Ridley explains why Darwin's…

I came across this brilliant and scarily insightful guide to dating geek girls and queried Boyfriend on whether he was aware of said guide. He wasn't, which makes it more amazing that he has…

Are we ""natural-born cyborgs", as Carl Zimmer argues? We tend to think of the mind as separated from the world; we imagine information trickling into our senses and reaching our isolated minds,…

I just randomly came across this Yahoo! Answers page with more "Election" questions at the bottom: Well Yahoo!, I'm glad we have that resolved. And why is "Aliens" capitalized? Is Sigourney Weaver…

Knew Today was comingClimate change, yes commaClimate change is changingWords to rhyme Alabama Have a new ticketTrain to love brothersHear the weak, meekRespect sisters and others Dare our science…

It is Back to the Future week at Overthinkingit.com, a fellow awesome science geeks blog. Over the past week, the Overthinking It team has subjected the Back to the Future trilogy to a level of…

As explained in the previous post, Aβ catabolic pathway may offer an effective way to prevent as well as treat Alzheimer's disease (AD). The enzymes involved in Aβ degradation and clearance are-…

Daniel at Genetic Future has posted the latest edition of Gene Genie. Go read about blog reactions to Steven Pinker's genome, a DNA database for Portuguese criminals, predictions on what super-power-…

Solar Astrophysics afficionados may be familiar with videos  showing  moving images of highly active Coronal displays  featuring  jetting sunspots.  This type of Sunspot is…

This is a well-documented Solar anomaly.  The effect  can be loosely  described as  "  the spinning dinner plate  wobble."   This evidences  a …

Mutants are always interesting, right?  (With the exception of sequels?)  Anyways, today's mutant offering is two-headed fish in Australia.  (First cane toads, now this?  Can't…

2009 will be an eventful year for Earth observation at the European Space Agency. I watched the ESA press conference in December 2008 immediately after the Ministerial where ESA's Director General…

2009 will be an eventful year for Earthobservation at the European Space Agency. I watched the ESA pressconference in December 2008 immediately after the Ministerial whereESA's Director General…

While the entertainment industry's awards shows are beginning to clog the airways with completely mindless fluff, a recent award by the editors of Science magazine is going relatively unnoticed. In…

The recent landing of a Airbus A320 on the Hudson was a tragedy narrowly avoided - thanks in no small part to the quick thinking of the pilot after a flock of birds took out both engines on the plane…

OK, here's more commentary on some of the interesting stuff over at Cosmic Variance, this time on the cult of genius: During high school or college, many aspiring physicists latch onto Feynman or…

At Cosmic Variance, find out how the once active physicist Frank Tipler now registers high on John Baez's crackpot index: In science, we tend to valorize (to the point of fetishizing) a certain kind…