George Monbiot wrote in his Guardian column a couple of weeks ago:  "For years we’ve been told that people cannot afford to care about the natural world until they become rich; that only…

Dr. Francis Collins, former head of the Human Genome Project and current Director of the National Institutes of Health, has a $30 billion problem. Taxpayers are spending that much money each year,…

The May 26th 2014 issue of Chemical&Engineering News reported on a promising drug with a future to be determined by the courts. Cancer researcher Wafik S. El-Deiry of Pennsylvania State…

The good news is that science remains, for the most part, self-correcting. After peer review, numerous errors are uncovered and one site, Retraction Watch, is devoted to being an internal watch dog.…

In 15 seconds, name as many drugs as you can. What did you come up with? Does the list include heroin, marijuana, and meth? Maybe you also thought of cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, alcohol, or the wide…

They key issues in the discussion of the BICEP2 result center around the way BICEP2 accounted for dust in the foreground.  They based their analysis on a presentation graphic which was shown at…

Cosmos, hosted by Science 2.0 fave Dr. Neil Tyson, is wrapping up and it seems to have found its niche. Its 3,450,000 viewers yesterday is way down from its debut but it is nowhere near the crash…

Programmers may not be the guys with the best sense of humor around, but I found it quite entertaining to read a web page with a collection of source code comments arising a smile. The one I liked…

"After the 1974 London Conference, with its strong confirmation of the quark model, a general change of view developed with regard to the structure of hadrons. [...] the quark structure of hadrons…

Not horrified by PETA's graphic images of food processing or titillated by their penchant for exploiting naked women enough to stop eating meat? The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have…

When included in addiction treatment and relapse prevention programs, mindfulness and meditation strategies have been shown to reduce anxiety and help to prevent relapse. But mindfulness and…

For some time now in Britain, our “great and good” have been belabouring the more conservative part of our population [1] with accusations of Islamophobia and Homophobia.  The implication of…

Four simple reasons that Ebenezer the dinosaur does not prove young Earth creationism. Young Earth creationist are happy to have their own museum at which to present their case. In brief, a dinosaur…

SETI scientist Gerry Harp writes of a "secret" experiment involving Kepler 186-f.   The senior scientist look only for a tuning fork like signal.  The least likely signal ET would send…

Somewhere south of a sunny childhood are emotional and physical abuse and neglect. There are four possible combinations: emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical abuse, and physical neglect. If…

Did you cheer when Julian Assange and WikiLeaks made the news but boo when Snowden showed the NSA is spying on American citizens? Are you boycotting NASA because of an espionage-prevention rule that…

http://nypost.com/2013/10/08/us-adults-are-dumber-than-the-average-human/ The study, called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, found that it was easier on average to…

Samuel Arbesman and K. Brad Wray, 'Demographics and the fate of the young scientist', Social Studies of Science April 2013 vol. 43 no. 2 282-286 doi: 10.1177/0306312712470218

two Representative are Republicans - Richard Hanna and George Miller (but he is a Californian, so pretty much a Democrat) Sen. Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat, he is an Independent Democrat…

Science is hard.  Because it is hard, the people teaching it should not be determined by how long they have been in a union.  In 1980, the same percentage of teachers voted for Jimmy Carter…