Ok, so Canada elected a conservative government again, meaning that the Conservative Party of Canada(a merger of the former right-centre Progressive Conservative Party and far-right Canadian Alliance…

Says our UK Education Minister, Jim Knight: If we get it right, the lessons learned at school will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Although Euclidean geometry and the dates of the…

Thanksgiving doesn't always get the respect it deserves.   It's wedged between the heathen/pagan/godless/goth/vampire wanna-be/sexy nurse/sexy witch awesomeness that is Halloween and the rather…

This was such a great beginning to a story, I had to include it in a blog. AP's Mike Schneider had this winner posted recently: The smoked turkey resembles sliced deli meat but stiffer, the candied…

My displeasure with media stories continues today with another over-the-top, speculative, and tailor-made-for-quote-mining article from Discovery News. The gist of it is that some people saw a very…

Most scientists have a rational basis for experimentation but then there were (and are) others who ran with their own rules.   These are the people I am referring to as 'Mad Scientists' rather…

Cancer cells of all types have one thing in common: they have escaped the built-in controls of cell reproduction, and as a result, tumors grow as the out-of-control cells keep dividing. This out-of-…

OK, this isn't strictly science, but take this U.S. civics quiz and then see if you do better than your average US government official. Is it really surprising that government officials did worse…

...at Redneck Genetics. It's now Dr. Redneck Geneticist. Justin successfully finished his PhD this week - head on over and congratulate him, now that he's sober again.

Running out of excuses for not hearing the request to take out the trash or do the dishes? Rejoice, you who avoid sharing common household chores - a new excuse has emerged. Avoid drinking any liquid…

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I envision a Walley World outpost on Venus, or perhaps the next passing comet...what, you have a better idea? Then send it to NASA. The space agency announced an opportunity for PI-led space…

There is an interesting story in New Scientist about The Science&Entertainment Exchange, a program initiated by the National Academy of Sciences to improve the science in movies and TV [New…

Did you know that the kind of water you drink affects your wellness? Research in Japan and Korea in both hospitals and farms with using alkaline ionized water with patients or livestock supports the…

This comment by Andy was too good not to repost. Generic press release for genome sequencing Scientists map genome of (insert name). A team of researchers from (insert university/institute/lockup…

This is why women should just stay in the kitchen and leave the real work to the men. (I'm still bitter about being told in 1997 by a construction foreman that I hammer like a girl.) A spacewalking…

Not so long ago, geneticists considered the vast stretches of non-coding regions in DNA to be “junk,” nothing more than the remnants of our evolutionary history. If it wasn’t a traditional gene, and…

With apologies to Jonathan Eisen for encroaching on his annoyance specialty, here is yet another case of science via press release. Big hop forward: Scientists map kangaroo's DNA Taking a big…

This is the topic of a recent Telegraph Blog (here) by Daniel Hannan, a Member of the European Parliament. The Hedgehog would like to know, WHAT SORT OF SCIENCE should the "some" be?  Any…

Move over, Malibu - ancient Mars may take the solar system's top beachfront destination prize. It possibly had not just one ocean, but two! An older, wiser ocean, surrounding a younger version that…