What's the environmental equivalent of those emails that ask you to stick it to oil companies by not buying gas on a Tuesday?   Earth Hour.  Started in 2007 as sort of a well-meaning…

What's the environmental equivalent of those emails that ask you to stick it to oil companies by not buying gas on a Tuesday?   Earth Hour.  Started in 2007 as sort of a well-meaning…

Methodological Stuff: 1. Introduction 2: Patterns3: Patterns, Objectivity and Truth4: Patterns and Processes The Pattern Library: 1.       A pattern of Difference After…

Spend anytime in the online autism community, and you'll find a rich cast of characters offering a diverse perspective on what it means to be autistic. From clinically diagnosed autistics in early…

. . . don't exist. But because it's finger squid season in Texas, I've been reading up on the closest approximation to a freshwater squid: the Atlantic brief squid, Lolliguncula brevis. It's a pretty…

New Energy Source Discovered ... what do we find today, now that the internet is so common and so many people are using it to communicate and share ideas? A new energy source, that's what. Ahren…

(Or, if you prefer, "Employing Utilitarian Eudaemonism.") Today's lesson will be about ad hominem attacks. Ad hominem attacks are “attacking the messenger, rather than the message.” This happens in…

Successful Revolutions and Unsuccessful rebellions follow a common pattern: those who hold the heavy armored weapons and aircraft usually win in the street.  This is one major reason why the…

President Obama's recent actions have set a clear black line which repressive governments now cannot cross.  By targeting and destroying Qaddafi's heavy weapons, navy and air-force, in the…

1. Introduction 2: Patterns3: Patterns, Objectivity and Truth4: Patterns and Processes So far, PAChas been introduced as one epistemological system amongst others, has its ownfocus, (hopefully)…

Methodological Stuff:1. Introduction 2: Patterns3: Patterns, Objectivity and Truth4: Patterns and Processes The Pattern Library: A pattern of Difference A Pattern of Feedback So far, PAC has been…

While my late Professor Dr Neumann was showing me a museum on the outskirt of a German town , the instruments to fight each other were swords . He commented " The most significant progress makind has…

Which science kills the most people each year?  Prompted by a quote-- "guns don't kill people-- physics kills people." ('3rd Rock from the Sun') -- it's time we look at which science really is…

The big news in the diabetes world this week is a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine (link here) about how Actos (scientific name: pioglitazone) can help prevent the development of…

If we have done away -like postmodernism- with the notion of absolute truth, and we are living in a life-world where observers with limited knowledge try to 'make sense' of their envirnoment, then we…

This week's friday fossil is Tribrachidium. Tribrachidium is from that oddest of time periods, the Ediacaran, and because of that we can partly excuse it for its weirdness. It's basically an Isle of…

"The observed exclusion limit is found from the point where the 95% quantile (dottedline) crosses the median value of the distribution of Q values for the QCD prediction(dashed line). This occurs at…

A new bill, sponsored by Alabama Congresswoman Martha Roby, is going up before Congress - HR 205, The Geometric Simplification Act, which declares the Euclidean mathematical constant of pi to be…

Arctic Ice March 2011 Update #2 The melt season of 2010 ended with a low extent and with little ice older than two years. There are strong indications that the winter of 2010 - 2011 did not compact…

Researchers have discovered a 525-million-year-old fossil which belongs to a group of tentacle-bearing creatures which lived inside hard tubes.  The creature belongs to a group called…