In my earlier blog on Global Warming I went into cause and effect of the reflective ice melt. I included a formula for stabilizing the climate. Face it we have already started controling the climate…

Global Warming Solution What we can do as to change, we can do it now, or later as we become more affected by it. Global warming or cooling is caused buy more or less reflection or absorption of…

I guess the residents of Barbados are not as amused as we are about some fame-whoring scientist tripping over a snake they have seen their whole lives and naming it after his spouse. "How dare this…

The Panda's Thumb (PT) has a short post giving a quote from Michael Medved, a new fellow at the Discovery Institute (DI) (which promotes intelligent design, or ID). In it, Medved notes that…

There are some people who do not want you to read this as it can change the world for the better. I have created a new technology useing vortex's It can change your world with free energy. A long…

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Science blogger and University of Wisconsin scientist John Hawks recently demonstrated that it really is possible to blog and get tenure. Continuing this discussion, he now explains why scientists…

A paper in Cell is reporting the sequence of a Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA genome. Mitochondrial DNA, which you inherit only from your mother, has long been among the most useful DNA regions for…

Quick; who is against evolution the most? Right wing, religious fundamentalists or left-wing academics? Well, you're right. Both sides have something to fear and both sides attack evolution in…

The first post at Genomicron was called "My grad student made me do it", and explained that a then-newly-arrived PhD student in my lab was a blogger and got me interested in blogging. He is still a…

Let me start with the story of South African sprinter and double-leg amputee Oscar Pistorius, the “fastest man on no legs.” He wants to be the first runner with an amputee to compete in the Olympics…

Recently there was a post on this site that generated a lot of feedback, Conversation with a modern creationist. This was posted by Professor Lee Silver June 4, 2008. It is the record of an exchange…

A physics professor, writing in Inside Higher Ed, asks why intellectuals think it's ok to be ignorant of math and science, but not of art, music and literature. When among intellectual company,…

Physicist Nobel Laureate Philip Anderson on computers and physics: The prestige attached to computers and their erudite gimmicks impresses almost everyone, but especially the simulators. They often…

In case you aren't reading them yet, take a minute to check out these relatively new blogs by scientists: BdellaNea A blog about leeches -- Mark Siddall (American Museum of Natural History)…

I apparently missed this little episode in June, when a creationist (with no scientific credentials) read a news piece on the recent work of Michigan State biologist Richard Lenski, and then wrote an…

We don't have a lot of students reading here but if we did, I would tell them not to sweat the letter grades too much. You can be a 'C' student at Yale and be President of the United States. Heck,…

The mad scientist stereotype seems to be alive and well.  This time it is emerging in a disturbing way.  A US Army scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, committed suicide at the age of 62.…

I have been thinking a great deal about the big bang, and how there was supposedly a super dense primordial egg that exploded in less than a second to create the universe as we know it. Is it…

I spent last week at the 2008 Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology meeting at the University of Toronto. Don't be fooled by the name: this conference isn't about yeast in and of itself; it's about…