"And why do we measure areas with square centimeters ?" "Because it would be much harder to fit in there round centimeters, silly!" (From a conversation with my daughter)

Age of Herbals somewhere  during  1565 in this part of globe saw many medical man searching for medicines for relieving patients of pain.  The surgery  was done without anesthesia…

Social Bonding and Nurture Kinship - Compatibility between Cultural and Biological Approaches.Author – Maximilian HollandAvailable from Amazon and online at http://maximilianholland.com/  …

I mentioned at the end of last week's post about the new "earliest bird" that there were murmurs of discontent about the authenticity of the fossil specimen of Anchrionis. This fossil has come from…

This morning I arrived to my office with one idea to develop, and I decided to work on the blackboard that is hung on the wall opposite to where I sit. I seldom use it, but for some reason it seems…

What with all the current talk of GMOs, I would remind folks here that some 20th century methods also raised fears.  A more “traditional” method has been to double the chromosome content of…

News (?), Top-Secret (?), Latest revelation (?)Strange, the EU was aware of the NSA (spying) global gathering of electronic data since 2001.  Sorry folks, this is not news.  I wrote about…

I am used to odd looks when I say I'm flying a satellite to convert the ionosphere to music.  The field of art/science hybrids is hard to assess.  What's your call on putting a TARDIS in…

University of New Mexico professor Geoffrey Miller is a social/evolutionary psychologist so it's no surprise he is clueless about people - like what it takes to have the willpower to get a Ph.D,…

Congressman Raul Grijalva, (D-Arizona), has some interesting ideas about science. Namely, he thinks that all of the government scientists in the State Department who did numerous environmental impact…

"The abandonment of superstitious beliefs about the existence of Phlogiston, the Cosmic Ether, Absolute Space and Time, ... , or Fairies and Witches, was an essential step along the road to…

This describes the maths behind the sloth canon number sequences described in my Self Similar Sloth Canon Number Sequences article It simplifies the proofs here to use a 0 based notation. So we…

Architectural Folly And Trumpery In 1984 Prince Charles provoked controversy when he called a proposed extension to London's National Gallery a "monstrous carbuncle". What is good and what is bad…

If you want to have a good time, visit Spain.  It isn't just the tapas. They have bars. A lot of them.  The average is one bar for every 132 residents. For comparison, the US state…

One has to be careful how one reads.  A few years ago I used this short bit from Darwin’s Descent of Man (page 174) to tease a Welsh friend: Given a land originally peopled by a thousand Saxons…

Everyone says they care about science. And everyone says they care about developing nations. Chocolate may be instrumental in deliciously helping people care about both. Ivory Coast, the world’s top…

In A. D. 1300 in Poland, more precisely in the region of Kashubia, was coined the term "nachzehrer" to define the female vampire, or "chewing the shroud" or "devourer of the night."  The…

In the half year since I wrote last September, the CubeSat field has greatly moved forward.  Seven CubeSats have launched since that last blog include ESTCube-1 (solar sail test), Pegasus…

"The cusp in the dark matter distribution required to explain the recently found excess in the gamma-ray spectrum at energies of 130 GeV in terms of the dark matter annihilations cannot survive the…

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders knows that the The Food and Drug Administration will not require any special label on foods just because a competitor seeks to market its product differently. And…