http://www.reason.com/news/show/134795.html  The disturbing intellectual record of Obama's science czar

 Things everyone should know about real black holes in  comparison to fictional black holes.  Most importantly they don't suck things into them.    Black holes do not…

Recently Leonard Susskind introduced a new type of objects and called them ziggs. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqNg819PiZY Ziggs are supposed to form a condensate. Massive particles emit…

In India most of the marine mammal records come from stranding and accidental catch in trawls and purse seine. There are two main habitat of marine mammals in India, (1) Arabian Sea on the western…

How can you tell the American recession is still worrisome, despite government worker unemployment only being 4.3%?  Beer sales have fallen again.  You'd think beer sales would go up in a…

"A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest." W. Churchill

Don't have room in your stomach for 36 eggs but you really want those equivalent calories in one delicious treat?  Head to The Cheesecake Factory with me and get their French Toast Napoleon…

People who are either clueless or shills for anti-science hysteria insist 'something is better than nothing' when it comes to laws about food, and that we can just 'fix' it despite its flaws but we…

Advocacy groups like Greenpeace and the Union of Concerned Scientists have already declared war on poor people and kids with their militant, anti-science hysteria against Golden Rice but actual…

As my twenty three affectionate readers will probably remember, I enjoyed a very pleasant week in Kolymbari (Crete) last June, attending the first International Conference of Frontier Physics. Now,…

I had one of a kind experience when I went to a very beautiful  beach in south Andaman. The whole beach was populated with the sand crabs, Ocipode quadrata, the ghost crab, Dotilla…

I had one of a kind experience when I went to a very beautiful  beach in south Andaman. The whole beach was populated with the sand crabs, Ocipode quadrata, the ghost crab, Dotilla myctiroides ,…

Dark energy is the biggest mystery in modern cosmology. When observations of distinct supernova finally got good enough to observe the change in the rate of the expansion of the universe, Everyone…

The anti-GMO contingent may be anti-science, and they may be overwhelmingly progressive, but what they are not - and it is refreshing - is hypocritical when it comes to criticizing their own side of…

"Sustainable agriculture" is as  articulated in the 1990"Farm Bill" Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990,P.L. 101-624, Title XVI, Subtitle A, Section 1603) sustainable…

Are you in favor of solar power?  Good luck getting any large scale installations to go up.  While energy activists want to get rid of fossil fuels and support solar power, environmental…

In his book  Essay on population Malthus’s 1798 predicted  that  population growth will soon outpace food production. Ecologist Paul Ehrlich’s 1968  wrote in his book:…

I've been reflecting on autism and what makes a disability and what makes a personality, as I wait for the APA to get its shit together and release the new DSM. Will the change in criteria mean my…

Newspapers and journalists have given a lot of coverage to Proposition 37, the oddly named California Right to Know Genetically Modified Food Act. Laurel Rosenhall, writing in the Sacramento Bee…

The Apocalypse is coming.  If it isn't an earthquake, Ragnarok, Doomsday, Nibiru, GMO corn, global warming or the Mayans, it could surely be that Iranians get tired of explaining why Israel…