If we're going to make fun of people who think the earth is 6000 years old or that cavemen frolicked with dinosaurs we should also make fun of berserk "environmentalists" who say blatantly stupid…

First, I have a disclosure: I had no idea where Masai was before I googled it. It turns out I have never heard of it because it's not a place, it's a tribe. In Kenya and Tanzania. They don't read…

Instead of NASA scrapping the two space shuttles. Why not fly them up to the International Space Station and incorperate them into the station for much needed square footage. Maybe even as an escape…

I'm hosting the 102nd edition of The Tangled Bank, a blog carnival dedicated to science medicine and natural history over at Further Thoughts.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, April 1 /PRNewswire/ - Science 2.0/Web 2.0/Internet Media Darling/Start-Up Scientific Blogging announced today that it has agreed to acquire Scienceblogs.com, a unit of Seed…

What ecological niche does a site like this occupy in the world of science journalism? Nature this week has an editorial ("Critical Journalism", subscription required) about the fact that coverage of…

In case you've been canoodling with your supermodel and not reading this blog, you may not know that the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is due to go online.(1) Or is it? No one can really be certain.…

The heart muscle cells, cardiomyocytes, can be destroyed by the result of hypertension, chronic insufficiency in the blood supply to the heart muscle caused by coronary artery disease, or heart…

The Eurocopter BO-105 CBS 4 twin engine helicopter with a Rigid Rotor system can do some amazing aerobatics. Stock model with a Rigid Rotor system, the fixed rotor is why it can do aerobatics. "…

Nathaniel Abraham got a job as a biology post-doc at Woods Hole and then chose to disclose that he wasn't necessarily hip to every little aspect of evolutionary biology - like the whole evolution…

A recent Czech study about a supposed inverse correlation between beer-drinking and scientific output (the more beer you drink, the less productive you are - read the NY Times report) has been the…

This piece is slightly old, but it's amusing: over at Inkling Magazine, they're examining why beards may not be the best thing for a job that requires sterile conditions. Among the findings they…

This was my first post. A total of three people read it, it didn’t take long to be relegated to the garbage pile of scientific dribble. I am not going to give up on this post, if it can’t make it…

The promoters of Ben Stein's anti-evolutionist movie Expelled have been holding screenings around the country to drum up enthusiasm for the movie. But to keep that enthusiasm from being dampened by…

Euan Adie, who works for Nature and runs their Postgenomic tool, ran an analysis of Scienceblogs.com common terms in response to the big blow-up a few weeks ago at Bayblab called the state of science…

A newly described plesiosaur, Nichollsia borealis, has been named for the late Elizabeth (Betsy) Nicholls, a renowned paleontologist from the University of Calgary. Betsy holds a special place in…

While I recently slammed bad science writing, I do enjoy good science writing and recognize that there are many good science journalists out there. To help scientists learn to communicate with the…

If you had a sample of bacteria taken from an environmentally sensitive area, or from a patient with a severe infection, would you be able to tell if any of these bacteria had been genetically…

That's right, it's not just scientists who are funny. In trolling the internet as I do, I came across mention of Increased Complexity: Is This The First Rule Of Evolution? on a site called…

We have a much bigger audience than Physical Review Letters anyway. From New Scientist: Scientists who want to describe their work on Wikipedia should not be forced to give up the kudos of a…