Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is to the Obama administration what Dick Cheney was to G.W. Bush or Robert Rubin was to Clinton - it's better she not be allowed to speak. Yet speak she…

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is to the Obama administration what Dick Cheney was to G.W. Bush or Robert Rubin was to Clinton - it's better she not be allowed to speak. Yet speak she…

A dedicated vegan has to make a difficult choice.   She realizes, as most culturally neutral people knew, that nutrition is a shockingly inexact science and that the human body may react to a…

A dedicated vegan has to make a difficult choice.   She realizes, as most culturally neutral people knew, that nutrition is a shockingly inexact science and that the human body may react to a…

Forget those politically correct world leaders zipping around Lisbon in no-emission electric vehicles, an American president needs to cowboy it up, no matter which party he is.  Our honor…

Forget those politically correct world leaders zipping around Lisbon in no-emission electric vehicles, an American president needs to cowboy it up, no matter which party he is.  Our honor…

Every wonder what to get an astronomy fan for a present?  In this 365DOA Podcast, Emma the waitress and Sandy the diner roleplay the Meteorite Cafe.  Judging by that name, you can guess…

In 2006, 2% of the world's astronomers, led by a guy with a television show, decided Pluto should not be a planet.    Recently discovered Eris was bigger, they said, so rather than make…

In 2006, 2% of the world's astronomers, led by a guy with a television show, decided Pluto should not be a planet.    Recently discovered Eris was bigger, they said, so rather than make…

With the big holidays just around the corner, thousands of folks are about to get their first taste of the TSA's new virtual strip search machines - X-ray body scanners. Privacy issues may be the…

Will Wright’s demo of Spore illustrates some key concepts of complex systems, including the notion of simple rules generating complex behaviors, and also the power of recursively applied (i…

[note: I struggled with what category to put this in, perhaps there should be a new one called Complexity?] One of the paradigms in complex adaptive systems thinking that has great explanatory power…

Voting blocs are an emergent property of representative democracies wherein each new voting issue carries with it an automatic right for each representative to vote. In other words, when votes are…

Not having had any serious biological training I have to go to Wikipedia and Google to learn the basics. And I’m often surprised to find that concepts everyone uses don’t have good consensus amongst…

The ethical issues surrounding unchecked human embryonic stem cell research are not going away any time soon, regardless of which political party occupies Congress or the White House.   …

One scientist has recommended that decreasing tax on alcohol sold in pubs and increasing tax for the supermarket stuff will help UK spend less on alcohol abuse. Argument also goes to support…

TIME magazine got its opening right but then wanders off into a fairytale...  From the debacle of the hacked Climategate e-mails to the bitter disappointment of Copenhagen to the slow death of…

TIME magazine got its opening right but then wanders off into a fairytale...  From the debacle of the hacked Climategate e-mails to the bitter disappointment of Copenhagen to the slow death of…

Isaac Newton, the man who invented calculus, described the law of universal gravitation and built the first reflecting telescope and is rightfully considered one of the most influential scientists in…

Isaac Newton, the man who invented calculus, described the law of universal gravitation and built the first reflecting telescope and is rightfully considered one of the most influential scientists in…