The Maya are having a tough 2008. First, the mystery of the cool blue pigment they used in pottery was solved and then we found out that all kinds of Mayans were building temples to do those…

When you saw 'bio-based lubricants' you thought it was just a way to appeal to that girl wearing a Greenpeace shirt at the bar around 2AM, right? Not so, perv. Aside from being non-petroleum based…

The site had 10 million members log on from the official launch August 2007 to the end of the year, and 2 ½ million in January 2008. Forty percent of the traffic is international. September 18, 2007…

I'm hosting the second issue of Berry Go Round, a new plant-focussed blog carnival, here.

I am not sure why Cali Lewis wore a tight t-shirt to discuss Chinese breast-massaging robots, but I bet there was a good reason. So let's chalk it up to another miracle of science.

Because we are basically clueless about what's happening in the blogosphere, I only learned about this flare up because a gentleman from PLoS who writes for scienceblogs mentioned us in his response…

This is what happens when you don't vaccinate. Even if the claims about vaccines causing autism hadn't already been thoroughly debunked, it's clear the infectious disease threat is much more serious…

Mike Farrell – raw, tenacious, principled Mike exemplifies a boy-to-man who dares to feel and learn his way through challenges, sorrows and joys to success as a confident, grounded, emotionally sound…

Think writing here is tough? Gawker Media fired someone they only hired a few months ago. Fired? From blogging? I'd rather work for free, thanks.

Dovetailing nicely with the autism spat on Seth's article, Wired tells us that scientists are reconsidering what they think they know.

Paweł Szczęsny, one of those rare eastern European names that actually is more difficult to spell than to pronounce, at Freelancing Science (I do that too, but I call it "working for peanuts") made…

From The Guardian in the UK. Professor Ken Miller tells James Randerson at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston why it's time to reclaim the word "design" from…

Sometimes enviromental responsibility goes too far.   Washable menstrual pads may be that threshold. Pretty colors though. 

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Apparently many here, yes even on SB. There seems to be a general reluctance among many here to engage in any conversations of a controversial nature. Personally,…

General Motors Corp Vice Chairman Bob Lutz is standing by his statement that global warming is a 'crock.' He says this has nothing at all to do with GM's commitment to environmentally terrific cars…

Wow...! I just discovered this site, and I'm completely amazed at what's here. I'm so glad that there is the option to register! And this "Latest Thoughts" concept is GREAT! I'm excited that I get…

Making biology easy enough for engineers: No, I'm not knocking the intelligence of engineers. But we're still not at the point where, in the words of synthetic biologist Drew Endy: ...when I want to…

News article from Florida Highlights: quoting: "Florida's current standards require the teaching of evolution using code words like "change over time." Also, the argument was to include "the other…

Looking for a lamp that's fed by good old Newtonian physics, lasts about 4 hours and outputs a lot of light? A VA Tech…

I have just completed the first in a series of youtube video's on quantum theory. This one deal with quantum states. In these video's I attempt to explain quantum mechanics in a way that anyone who…