It has come to my attention in a more recent comment thread on one of my articles that the quantum theory I advanced here has been experimentally verified. I have revisited this article and I find…

Normally, everything I write about here is at least indirectly connected to science in some way. However, today I am drifting into the world of music. The New York Times had an article a few days ago…

The Atlantic is asking Is Google Making Us Stupid? They quote a pathologist at the University of Michigan School of Medicine: “I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish…

Pharyngula has an interesting graph showing the steady improvement in survival rates of childhood leukemia over the last 40 years. A disease that was essentially an automatic death sentence 40 years…

Sorry - just had to make up that little title because I had a funny conversaiton with someone where I was trying to say, concisely, that Ryan Gregory, who has a nice blog called Genomicron, had…

With this first post, I will make an attempt to give a quick outline of the battery's invention and how a battery is structured. Hopefully, it will be accessible to those not from the electrochemical…

Energizing the Future is designed to cover recent breakthroughs and my own personal thoughts on energy storage and generation. As my primary focus in research is batteries, I will start the blog off…

The NY Times today has a profile on Congress's 3 PhD physicists. Congressman Vernon Ehlers (R, Michigan), PhD, tells the NY Times that he has had to stop his Congressional colleagues from trying to…

About a year ago an Angus Reid poll provided some information regarding the acceptance of evolution in Canada, which was taken by some as the basis for claiming that the level of acceptance of this…

One of the most useful things about having our brains is the ability to anticipate predictable events: we can see that it's going to rain, or that it's getting dark, and prepare accordingly. Some…

In my previous posting, "Fixing Soot Gains 20 Years against Global Warming" I found myself omitting some rather surely controversial comments in hopes the idea gains acceptance and distribution. I…

Curtis E. Hinkle of Organisation Internationale des Intersexués (Oii) has written “Zucker: Manipulation of Young Feminine Boys ” . To me this reads like just another attack on the very concept of the…

Jonathan Eisen, who blogs at The Tree of Life, has coined the phrase "Genomics by Press Release", and has even given out two ignominious awards for particularly egregious examples. The most recent…

I hopped over to Hudson River Park in NY to check out the Science Barge, first project of the NY Sun Works for sustainable engineering. Photo: The Science Barge Sarah Hanna, Educational Coordinator…

Let's say you're going to test a new ACE inhibitor drug for lowering high blood pressure. You would think that one of the obvious questions you want answered in this trial is whether the new…

The NY Times has another story about a possible link between cell phones and brain cancer. Apparently, this controversy has flared up not because of any new scientific research, but because several…

Over at Cosmic Variance, Sean tells us that the purpose of Harvard is not to educate people. Lately, there has been a dustup between Harvard, with its fat endowment, and various groups, including the…

Physicist and author Brian Green had an interesting opinion piece in yesterday's NY Times, arguing that we need to care about more than just science literacy - we have to promote excitement about…

If you have a subscription to Scientific American, make sure you check out Carl Zimmer's discussion of the question "What is a species?".  It's a good introduction to a long-running conundrum in…

In one of my snarkier moments, I coined the term "Dog's Ass Plot" (DAP) in reference to A graphical representation of data in any field that, through a lack of clear axis labels, selective inclusion/…