It's not going to be a big secret to any of you over the age of 25 that court cases are often not about right versus wrong but about convincing a jury.    And if you want to convince a jury…

It's not going to be a big secret to any of you over the age of 25 that court cases are often not about right versus wrong but about convincing a jury.    And if you want to convince a jury…

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. The authors suggest these ice sheets are overtaking ice loss…

As you may or may not know, I am a member of the Council of Canadians.http://www.canadians.org/index.html The council is a privately funded "social watchdog" (if I may be blunt.)  At the above…

You've seen it everywhere by now - Earth's sixth mass extinction: Is it almost here? and other articles discussing an article in Nature (471, 51–57 doi:10.1038/nature09678) claiming the end of…

Arctic Ice March 2011 - Update #1 Edited March 11 2011 - content added below ice prediction chart to address points raised in readers' comments. The Arctic sea ice extent has grown a little recently.…

If you want to win the NCAA College Basketball Tournament office pool and know nothing about basketball, the good news is you have just as much chance as devoted college basketball fans unless you…

José Marian, the author of this paper about sperm injection, very kindly and promptly provided me with a copy. I began reading with an enthusiasm which only increased as I proceeded through the…

NPR, which claims to be for all people, pretty much hates Republicans.  We all know this but they give a wink-wink pretense to being objective.   No one is really fooled and in the modern…

NPR, which claims to be for all people, pretty much hates Republicans.  We all know this but they give a wink-wink pretense to being objective.   No one is really fooled and in the modern…

In the debate over whether or not Medicare should be available to everyone, like it is to really poor people, soldiers, old people and members of Congress, one thing gets lost in the cost discussion;…

In the debate over whether or not Medicare should be available to everyone, like it is to really poor people, soldiers, old people and members of Congress, one thing gets lost in the cost discussion;…

Is everything built from information?   It's a recurring topic in science and philosophy.   John Horgan in Scientific American says it isn't but John Wilkins says he is wrong, even though…

Is everything built from information?   It's a recurring topic in science and philosophy.   John Horgan in Scientific American says it isn't but John Wilkins says he is wrong, even though…

Self-loathing Americans occasionally get concerned about evolution acceptance in America - like with Republicans who accept climate change but not global warming, the issue is more one of nuance and…

Self-loathing Americans occasionally get concerned about evolution acceptance in America - like with Republicans who accept climate change but not global warming, the issue is more one of nuance and…

And I thought my to-do list was long... For those not suffering from feline-induced insomnia and trolling the InterGoogles for news,1 NASA has its marching orders thanks to a new report, "Vision and…

Mendeley, which bills itself as the world's largest crowd-sourced research database, today announced the Mendeley API Binary Battle, challenging developers to build an application on top of Mendeley…

A few days ago Semperoper Ballett had its second special performance as part in the project "On the move". They play with new and adapted choreography at various places in the city of Dresden that…

Want to cloud a health and privacy issue?   Label it "male genital mutilation" and wage an expensive marketing campaign to get it outlawed.    If you have no taste for irony, do not…