What if society could identify aggressive behavior in individuals before a criminal act was committed? Sound a little like the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report (2002)?,well it should. Researchers at…

A nerdy R&B-esque science music video that's been stuck in my head since I watched it. I want to buy one right now. Scientists don't always take themselves too seriously. I also thought this…

Michael Shermer on why we're not really hard-wired for statistics: Thanks to our confirmation bias, in which we look for and find confirmatory evidence for what we already believe and ignore or…

The following statements are based on the personal experience of WSTEWART: 1) People who exercise aerobically every day or two are less susceptible to respiratory and other infections. 2) Lack of…

Michael Creighton's latest thriller, Next, presents all sorts of what-if scenarios for the genetic community. While most of us will not have to deal with foul-mouthed orangutans or smart-ass parrots…

The technology community in the US ain't what it used to be, argues Judy Estrin, a technology entrepreneur and former Chief Technology Officer of Cisco. She is the author of Closing the Innovation…

This is some of my work and life experience, I have simplified it so the average reader can hopefully understand. If this post can help even one wheelchair bound sufferer walk, or a chronic back pain…

Here is a somewhat provocative article by the Chief Exec of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Have a read, and please tell me what you think. (For non-UK readers, GCSEs are taken at the end of year…

Why is it so hard to find national Republican leaders who don't espouse creationism? Why does opposition to the very successful science of modern biology have to be part of today's definition of a…

Via Cosmic Variance I see that it's blogger book-list time again. Cocktail Party Physics gets us started with a list of the best popular science books. Great science books are always neglected in…

Along with chimps, orangutans, elephants, and dolphins, some birds are smart enough to recognize themselves in the mirror. We're naturally inclined to think of mammals as the creatures most likely to…

Here is your opportunity to influence the policy makers at the the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-15) to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark during November-December 2009. Specifically, the…

I sent the Professor Meg Urry interview to a colleague who is quite high-up in graduate teacher training. Here is his reply . We do have a lot of evidence about student motivation and about their…

This piece is a little old, and is ostensibly about Presidential candidates, but the advice applies to anyone with a 'wired' job who needs to think, including scientists and science writers: In…

An explanation in RAP format of what the Large Hadron Collider is all about. It's nested in the following Daily Telegraph article. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/26/…

Teaching evolution to a bunch of graduate students is easy; conveying something about evolution to a diverse group of high school students, some of whom have been coached to be openly hostile towards…

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Don't think you have time for science? Cracked.com ("America's Only Humor & Video Site, since 1958" - we've got humor and video here at Scientific Blogging, but we haven't been around since 1958…

Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer - GOCE will be launched in a few weeks (10 September 2008). It is one of the biggest event within geodesy this year, hell probably in the…