I was cautiously optimistic when Dr. Ernie Moniz was tapped as Energy Secretary, for two reasons. First, he wasn't picked because he was obsessed with CO2 and $9 a gallon gas, the way Steven Chu was,…

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Jimmy Duncan - A Prescient Politician John James "Jimmy" Duncan is a former Chairman of the United States House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation. In the United States, the "Safe Aviation…

The Science Play and Research Kit (SPARK) competition winners were announced today. The SPARK competition was a challenge to “reimagine the chemistry set for the 21st Century,” according to the…

This is a TV show which will be more appreciated in ten to twenty years than it is now.   The nation may not be as ready as we would like to hear this content from any host much less one like Dr…

When the second working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its fifth report March 31, its unexpected emphasis on the positive may have been more than a reflection of…

Underwater Acoustics - Searching For The MH370 Flight Recorder Australian and Chinese vessels have both picked up acoustic "pings" that could be from the black box of missing Malaysia Airlines…

Nothing says fun to a kid like talking about carbon dioxide and nucleation sites and surfactants. Actually, that sounds really, really boring. But if you instead tell them you are going to cause a…

When you’re sober, it’s so easy to tell yourself you’ll have just one drink. Or if you’re trying to be honest with yourself, you say you’ll stop at two; maybe two is enough to feel it, but not enough…

In a previous article I demonstrated an unbreakable code for secure communication through the United States Postal Service using One Time Pads created with Scrabble tiles (or Boggle cubes). It seems…

The television docudrama Cosmos: A Space-time Odyssey is in free-fall, having dropped in the ratings for the third straight week after a somewhat tepid debut. TV By the Numbers reports that only 3.91…

A decade ago, a well-orchestrated political campaign against Republicans in general and George W. Bush in particular turned everything into an anti-science issue. Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS),…

Britain's Air Pollution - It's Not Dust Having read in today's news that smog affecting much of England is caused by dust from the Sahara I decided to implement the incredibly scientific Mark 1…

As I mentioned a few months ago, lately I have been writing a science book for laymen. The idea is to focus on the history of CDF, a particle physics experiment that collected data from 1985 to 2011…

MH370 Transcript - Official Release Malaysian authorities have released the transcript of communications between flight MH370 and ground.  Unfortunately, most media outlets reporting this news…

Imagine lying in bed the morning after a binge as you reconstruct the night. Oh right! Now you remember going from the first party to the second. You remember the drink that put you over the edge.…

We often think of April 1st as more of a modern event, because it's sort of stupid and we think of our ancestors as being more serious.   Not so. Even the eminent biologist Charles Darwin got…

ndergraduate maths students at the University of Leicester have risen to the challenge set for them by building company Jelson Homes to work out the precise formula for the perfect cuppa- for their…

GWPF Hires Lord Monckton As I.T. Consultant Lord Lawson, founder of the Global Warming Policy Foundation is to pay Viscount Monckton an undisclosed retainer for I.T. consultancy services following a…