To understand the current developments in technology, one has to understand the progress of science.  The ultimate goal of science has always been to understand nature firstly and then to make…

The CaRiPaRo foundation offers 15 grants for students willing to follow a Ph.D. program at the University of Padova (Italy). The winners of these grants will get a (modest, but normal for Italian…

The Environmental Working Group's annual "Dirty Dozen" report for 2012 has named the fruits and vegetables ranking highest in pesticide residue. Don't get all excited about shopping at Whole Foods to…

April 24, 24 Steps To The Precession Of The Perihelion Of Mercury Snarky puzzle The only metric that is spherically symmetric and solves the Einstein field equations is the Schwarzschild metric, or…

Do you find  a coaching center preparing for competitive exams , admission tests, or preparing for examinations in Europe or USA or Japan ?   Now no job  or admission to any…

There's a lot of recent talk about open access in academia - taxpayers fund the bulk of academia in modern times so there isn't much benefit to a billion-dollar corporation charging a subscription…

The coolest stuff regarding ancient religious history is not found in the Vatican or western Europe at all, it's in the East where a lot less modern growth took place.  There is more stuff that…

I was looking through the feeds on the autism blogs directory, as I do everyday, and reading the various thumbnails, clicking through on those blog posts that I thought would be helpful to read…

This G is with us since last centuries. Of course, it is Newton gravitation constant. Traditionally it is written using a capital G, and yes! it is a big G!But this one, every universal constant in…

University of Rajasthan, which was the only university founded in the State of Rajputana in 1946 and is now known as Rajasthan, was meant for the entire Rajasthan population of around 20 million. Its…

I'm thoroughly impressed with "The Descent of Religion: Its Evolution from Nurturing to Bullying...and Back!" by Liz Carr-Harris.　 It is a singular work of research; fearless in its questioning of…

Cancer is scary, right? One of the reasons that cancer is so viscerally frightening is that it is so tightly associated with death. But how does cancer actually kill a person? This may seem like an…

I just wrote an article talking about how limiting choice is framed as 'leading the way' when it comes to a pet belief - and anti-science Californians who insist any genetically optimized food is…

On Monday I did something that up until a few weeks ago I would have thought nearly impossible.I met in person with Texas Governor Rick Perry. Why might this have seemed highly unlikely until…

Is your laboratory environment something like this? Sosban Fach (meaning ‘Little Saucepan’) is a popular Welsh song which recounts the troubles of a harassed housewife. It is particularly…

Everyone's introduction to quaternions always has the same math one-liner: This blog will dive into an issue that has bothered me for years, namely that the line assume the only coordinate system…

"It takes more work to communicate with someone whose native language isn't the same as yours. And autism goes deeper than language and culture; autistic people are "foreigners" in any society. You'…

We all say hurtful things to the ones we love. Some things we mean, and others we're just using the other person as a punching bag. Sometimes the damage we do with those words can't be undone and can…

Sometimes natural is not good.   Actually, a lot of the time natural is bad but we live in in era where anti-science types have a 'natural' fetish, believing anything natural is good. But not…

The island of Crete, in the middle of the Mediterranean sea, is home to ICFP 2012, a conference in high-energy physics. I arrived yesterday night and this morning I woke up with a gorgeous view of…