Cache Creek is the gateway to B.C.'s Cariboo Country, sporting big, open fields, cowboys and horses. It is also the stepping off point for field trips to the Eocene fossil beds at McAbee and Kamloops…

It's been a good decade for "The Wizard of Oz" - much better than the Oz books merit but in that one story there is the kernel of something terrific that has resonated with people for decades. …

Coincidences in fundamental physics, sometimes in the form of so called “fine tunings”; what are they? Generally speaking, some parameter happens to have a value very close to some other interesting…

Science Accelerator is a gateway to science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI),…

Science Accelerator is a gateway to science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI),…

From Brain Windows:  Ephus is a modular Matlab-based electrophysiology program that can control and record many channels of tools and data simultaneously.   ScanImage is another Matlab…

From Brain Windows:  Ephus is a modular Matlab-based electrophysiology program that can control and record many channels of tools and data simultaneously.   ScanImage is another Matlab…

I found this song in a playlist that an ex had given me; for some reason, I don't ever remember hearing it. Maybe if I had, we'd still be together- who knows? In any case, here it is, Josh Ritter,…

I needed a good laugh this morning, so a tip of the hat to Fox News for the welcome relief. On the Google News homepage, I saw this humdinger of a headline: "Fox on Sex: 5 Ways to Get Your Wife to…

Some of the most scenic views in the world can be had from Eiffel tower.  

There has been much debate surrounding Ray Kurzweil and his talk at the Singularity Summit on August 14th 2010, where he discussed reverse engineering the brain, among other things. He was criticized…

I took a moment to look at Ray Kurzweil's response to PZ Myers' second-hand dissection of his talk at the Singularity Summit(1) I attended last weekend (see The Singularity Stole My ATM Card) because…

Eiffel tower is one of the destination which I had visited in 1974. I visited again in 2010 . That time fees was less and it was per level 1st or 2nd or Top . Now its flat rate of Euro 13.50 or so…

A couple months shy of a year ago, I was raving about the news that a new giant squid documentary was in the works. Guess what? It's still in the works! If this weren't so deadly serious (joke) I'd…

Fix can mean to repair or to gimmick, as in 'the fix is in'.  I'm not going to tell you how to repair science journalism.  A few wingnuts stalwarts here at Science 2.0 beat that to death.…

Ocimum basilicum is closely related to Ocimum canum and has great medicinal properties in traditional medicine. Each home in India was supposed to have this plant in their courtyard and worship…

Beaches are to be kept clean. I witnessed beach of Barcelona. It was first time I visited a beach outside developing world. It was very different experience to see people relaxing as they please .…

It was heartening to see rapeseed mustard being widely cultivated on patches of lands in Giessen Hessen .. Large patches of land earlier lying wastelands near rly tracts between Giessen to Frankfurt…

Sunflower is sign of luck in Germany, at least as my late Professor Dr Karl-Hermann Neumann told me on visit to his home in Hungen near Giessen in state of Hessen of Germany. He was leading a…

As against the common belief out of 16 families showing C 4 type of photosynthesis ( in some of their plant species ) mainly found in tropical plants where initial carbon acceptor is…