After WikiLeaks released classified and sensitive government documents, predictions of the scale and significance of their impact were overstated. The desire/hope of proponents that the WikiLeaks…

A device the size of a home washing machine uses bacteria growing in municipal sewage to make electricity - and also clean up the sewage at the same time.  Current wastewater treatment…

Dr. Heidi Ledford at Nature says physicists enjoy more generous funding, more commercial interest and more popular support than biologists.   Thousands of physicists in the United States stopped…

In America, we don't eat cats or snails or brains but a lot of food choices are just cultural.  So it may be with afterbirth. Placentophagia may offer benefits to human mothers and perhaps to…

In America, we don't eat cats or snails or brains but a lot of food choices are just cultural.  So it may be with afterbirth. Placentophagia may offer benefits to human mothers and perhaps to…

Previous posts, examined possible plant cognitive functions with the Dodder’s parasitism and the complex ability plants have to communicate with other plants and fungi. More impressive are the…

Previous posts, examined possible plant cognitive functions with the Dodder’s parasitism and the complex ability plants have to communicate with other plants and fungi. More impressive are the…

Krafla, in the north of Iceland, is a caldera ten kilometers wide. It is basically a geological cauldron, created when the core of a volcano collapsed in the distant past. The crater Víti (it means “…

Krafla, in the north of Iceland, is a caldera ten kilometers wide. It is basically a geological cauldron, created when the core of a volcano collapsed in the distant past. The crater Víti (it means “…

We'd have to be crazy not to want more solar power - the Sun is limitless energy and, as time and research tackle the science and technology issues, it will get a lot more efficient. In 2005, when…

We'd have to be crazy not to want more solar power - the Sun is limitless energy and, as time and research tackle the science and technology issues, it will get a lot more efficient. In 2005, when…

If the government can make you buy something, why can't it make you buy anything?  You may one day need health care so if they can make you buy health insurance now, why can't they make you buy…

If the government can make you buy something, why can't it make you buy anything?  You may one day need health care so if they can make you buy health insurance now, why can't they make you buy…

Saturday morning breakfast cereal just ran an excellent commentary on interdisciplinary (ex-pat?) physicists. This cartoon just kept popping into my mind as I read a recent paper on gradient…

“And then I was like FUUUUUU”. This is how stories end nowadays. I dare to make a claim about the flow of stories because I believe the ontology of stories follows a predictable and stable pattern…

While most High-Energy Physicists nowadays are kept busy with the idle search for non-existent new physics beyond the standard model in the form of improbable Supersymmetric particles, phantom…

I do not usually shoot of little posts re-tweeting stuff I found, but the total destruction that is David Albert’s New York Times book review “On the Origin of Everything” reviewing “A Universe From…

There are 20,000 miles of pipeline in Nebraska criss-crossing the Ogalalla aquifier.  A company wanted to add 400 more but President Obama overruled scientists and declared the addition…

It's the biggest news in fast food - Starbucks Frappuccinos have bugs.  On purpose. The company has started using cochineal extract to supply its Frappuccinos’ strawberry color - hey, that beats…

It's the biggest news in fast food - Starbucks Frappuccinos have bugs.  On purpose. The company has started using cochineal extract to supply its Frappuccinos’ strawberry color - hey, that beats…