I found a problem where the original data from NCDC lost the tenth of a degree place during importing. So I corrected this problem and regenerated my graphs.Also based on emails with Dr Roy Spencer,…

"Sex education is failing to reduce adolescent birthrates in conservative states, according to a new study" begins a somber Livescience piece. Oooh, that's juicy.  We all want to talk about how…

Perfluorinated Polar Bears!   No, this is not an exasperated exclamation by Captain Haddock, but might well be a shout of surprise at learning that Canadians have been searching for compounds…

You have seen it already two months ago, but those were "preliminary" results. Now both CMS and ATLAS have produced full-fledged documents (CMS here, ATLAS here) describing their respective…

Some time I get queries from the readers of Science2.0 blogs and I feel encouraged that my blogs are read across the world. Some time people ask for advice also for their thesis work or literature…

For decades, tourists visiting Lake George, N.Y. could view the skeletons of soldiers from nearby French and Indian War sites depicted in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans".  In…

For decades, tourists visiting Lake George, N.Y. could view the skeletons of soldiers from nearby French and Indian War sites depicted in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans".  In…

I spent the week seeing if I could give the good old college try and find a "way that worked" for the gauge games I have been playing. Nothing panned out. Bummer, I had a blog to write. While…

Put mouthwash in your mouth?  Some of the ingredients you don't even want to put down your drain. Nothing tells you what you need to know about government wishful thinking than efforts to stick…

Put mouthwash in your mouth?  Some of the ingredients you don't even want to put down your drain. Nothing tells you what you need to know about government wishful thinking than efforts to stick…

I watched a bit of the superbowl last night. Not for the football game, you'll have to understand. I struggle with rugby at the best of times. American football to me just looks like an all out war,…

After reading Sascha's excellent article [Robopocalypse Now] regarding the effect and direction of robotic/AI development and its coevolutionary influences, it occurred to me that perhaps a shift in…

Last week I was introduced to an intriguing little brain game that could very well prevent Alzheimer's disease, with the nice side effect of helping to save the world.  The game was demonstrated…

French women are quite giving - after all, they let their husbands have a girlfriend, a mistress and a whore.  It only makes sense that generous nature would translate into parenting as well.…

French women are quite giving - after all, they let their husbands have a girlfriend, a mistress and a whore.  It only makes sense that generous nature would translate into parenting as well.…

If you are reading this then the recent research by Brian Pasley and colleagues in which speech sounds are reconstructed from measured brain activity has probably already come onto your neuro-radar.…

Happy 2012 ! I had not been writing any post in this blog since last October.  Furthermore, my first article was not devoted to my own work of this period discussing the OPERA result on a…

Hey, you got simulation in my roleplay! Hey, you got roleplay in my simulation! Wait, it's two great tastes that taste great together! Thus my students surprised me when they tossed in a role-based…

The problem, in a word, is language.Carl Zimmer’s recent article Can Life Be Defined in Three Words raised just that issue.He referred to the many attempts that have been made by scientists to define…

In the USA, it is, I understand, a great insult to call a member of the fair sex a “Tub of Lard”.  So folks from across the Pond may do a slight double-take when they read   …