Rumor has it that Scienceblogs.com, the blogging network owned by SEED Media, has finally been sold.   I told people here in 2009 that it was in play and anyone would want to acquire Prof. P.Z.…

Those who can do, those who can’t teach, and those who can’t teach use Independent Learning exercises. University teachers occupy a privileged perch in the education world.  Unlike elementary…

Google traffic to Demand Media sites is down 40 percent and other content farms seem to be following, according to an analysis by Experian Hitwise.  They looked at downstream traffic from Google…

Google traffic to Demand Media sites is down 40 percent and other content farms seem to be following, according to an analysis by Experian Hitwise.  They looked at downstream traffic from Google…

Queen's University researchers writing in the Journal of Preventative Medicine say there is a strong association between adolescent computer and Internet and multiple-risk behaviors (MRB), including…

Note: edited 4/26 On April 14, I wrote an article about the improper demonstration of a full-body restraint system being used in a Florida public school on disabled children. I followed up…

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has detected the antimatter partner of the helium nucleus, antihelium-4. This new particle, also known as the anti-alpha, is the…

Why should there not be ‘stuff’, or ‘real things’ instead of weird quantum mechanics at some microscopic scale? In other words, how can we accept that direct realism is wrong without getting too…

The Oldest Arctic Ice The oldest non-glacial ice in the northern hemisphere is a small remnant of the former Ellesmere Ice Shelf which began  forming about 5500 years ago.  That remnant is…

    Methodological Stuff: 1. Introduction 2: Patterns 3: Patterns, Objectivity and Truth 4: Patterns and Processes The Pattern Library: A pattern of Difference A Pattern of…

Not many plumbers become known worldwide for significant fossil discoveries but self-taught paleontologist and archaeologist Harley Garbani did just that, finding skulls of the youngest-known…

Having examined PBS's Autism Now in an earlier posting and noting its overall negativity, I'd like to turn to a documentary on autism that I can recommend: Todd Drezner's Loving Lampposts. Released…

The PBS series on autism, Autism Now, has aired all of its segments now. The extended transcripts of interviews are available online, as well.The series started with the sour note of a family…

What happens when you subsidize technology and then have a deficit in government?  You tax the people you just paid. In Washington state, after years and millions of dollars in tax breaks to…

FLAME OF THE FOREST on the foot hills of Sariska , Alwar give an impression as forest is on fire due to its organge coloured flowers. The tree is passing through flowering season now. B. monosperma…

If you read How Is The Date Of Easter Calculated? The Science Answer you learned about astronomy and why Christians established the paschal full moon after the vernal equinox as Easter - Christ…

If you read How Is The Date Of Easter Calculated? The Science Answer you learned about astronomy and why Christians established the paschal full moon after the vernal equinox as Easter - Christ…

You might think that those who are skeptical (or downright intransigent) on a CO2 basis for global warming are bigger wasters of energy or greater polluters than those who accept climate science. Not…

If you Google calculating the date of Easter, you are likely to get any number of top responses from SEO-friendly content farms that go something like "Easter is the first Sunday after the first full…

ADVANCELL has initiated a phase IIb clinical study of the Company's ATH008, for the treatment of the palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia syndrome, also known as hand-foot syndrome, a painful side…