If you watched Comedy Central last night, you may have seen a celebrity roast of David Hasselhoff and some research today is another reminder of "Knight Rider". In the "Knight Rider" television show,…

A new article concludes that early intervention for young people with delinquency problems may help prevent the development of crime, alcoholism and risky sex behaviors, especially among those with…

John Timmer of Ars Technica weighs in on the Pepsigate stuff - maybe a little late, but Scienceblogs people like the attention so it's all good.   Other large networks (us, Discover, NN) get a…

John Timmer of Ars Technica weighs in on the Pepsigate stuff - maybe a little late, but Scienceblogs people like the attention so it's all good.   Other large networks (us, Discover, NN) get a…

Thousands lined up in Japan Sunday to see a capsule from the Hayabusa space probe which was hoped to have brought asteroid dust from Itokawa back to Earth. Would Americans line up the same way?…

Thousands lined up in Japan Sunday to see a capsule from the Hayabusa space probe which was hoped to have brought asteroid dust from Itokawa back to Earth. Would Americans line up the same way?…

Its pity that we destroy the forests on the banks of the rivers, remove trees on the hills, and allow silt to accumulate in the lakes. All this leads to destroying water bodies. It's fury of nature…

The logic behind the worship of Goddess of wealth Laxmi in Indian mythology is simple. Lotus grows in water ponds. If you need to worship you need to bring lotus. Lotus is found in water bodies only.…

An argument in the business world is how happy you can make employees while still maintaining a job standard.    JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater cursed out a passenger, grabbed two…

A long-standing argument for public schools over home-schooling and more kids versus one is the social aspect.  Honestly, sending kids to school so they can learn to feel bad about their…

Obesity rates have leveled off and even started to decline for many adolescents, but not certain racial and ethnic minorities, according to a new study.  The study says it is the first to find…

Coal isn't popular everywhere these days, particularly in Africa.  Driven by economic growth and demand, electricity within sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly approaching supply capacity and in many…

A post on the Science Codex caught my attention (You think of your dog as one of your children? You probably live in the city). Of course, my first reaction was that this guy clearly lived in the…

To Anthony Watts, Letter before action in accordance with the rules of common law jurisdictions in general and of the English Civil Courts1 in particular. In the general context of this letter, my…

The redefiner Ɽt can be mimicked by a trail of infinitesimal unitary transforms. Each subsequent trail element has eigenvectors that differ from those of its predecessor. These eigenvectors are also…

The difficult thing about popularizing movements is that, in the beginning, you want recognition but as time goes on the interests of the movement may be divergent from the people involved in it.…

Not long ago, many scientists had the belief that after the age of about three, the brain was pretty much fixed in function. You could imprint new memories and learn new skills, but that was about it…

W bosons have been thoroughly studied at the Tevatron collider. Discovered by the UA1 experiment at the CERN SppS proton-antiproton collider in 1984, these particles have since been produced also in…

Largest thermometer that does no thermometing, largest shopping cart and even the largest ... particle collider.   Though at least we hope that last one will do something meaningful. It's all…

Largest thermometer that does no thermometing, largest shopping cart and even the largest ... particle collider.   Though at least we hope that last one will do something meaningful. It's all…