Dave Bacon, who used to be at Scienceblogs it seems (though not a departed because of Pepsigate, at least from what I gathered) outlines a pretty good vision of what the future of science networks…

Dave Bacon, who used to be at Scienceblogs it seems (though not a departed because of Pepsigate, at least from what I gathered) outlines a pretty good vision of what the future of science networks…

Dear gentle readers and the lovely and talented Scientific Blogging/Science 2.0 community, You may have noticed that I have not been around much lately, and I felt I should let everyone know what has…

In the continuing wake of the Pepsigate scandal at Scienceblogs (it made a splash, and then seemed to die away, but suddenly there have been 18 departures) a writer at the Guardian takes that…

With an opening sentence like that, you know you are in for a good post.    Back in the day, Scienceblogs was first populated by fairly militant people (politically, culturally) and the…

Crying is a waste of perfectly good water. So why we do it? I have no idea, so I would like to hear your ideas. To get the ball rolling, here are eight hypotheses, each surely inadequate and probably…

The Geneva Protocol was ratified the 17 June 1925, banned the use of biological weapons but Japan refused to approve the contract and the U.S. to ratify it. Therefore in 1936 Shiro Ishii (1892 -1959…

A witty scientist friend of mine asked me," What can an atom and a void can do with us?" I replied, "Atomic world lies far below and since we cannot see the atoms, their movements, atoms and void…

At Jonathan Rosenberg's excellent "Scenes From A Multiverse" ... Get ripped in defiance of conventional physics: Dark Energy brand energy drink replaces 74% of your muscles with Dark Muscles. …

At Jonathan Rosenberg's excellent "Scenes From A Multiverse" ... Get ripped in defiance of conventional physics: Dark Energy brand energy drink replaces 74% of your muscles with Dark Muscles. …

If you can withstand a two hour wait in the queue (on Sunday the 18th July) to purchase the ticket costing Euro 25 for the Palace and gardens there is no other place as beautiful as the garden of the…

It used to be filled with water.

Bridges That Build Themselves The two oldest types of bridge are the arch bridge and the corbel bridge.  It takes a lot of time and effort to build them, but they can last for thousands of years…

I  don't get why science writers don't cover science education. They cover whatever cool science is the flavor of the moment, they cover disasters and the science behind them, they cover…

Casey Rentz takes that whole chicken-egg silliness (solved! say headlines) and gets to the meat of the issue in Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist? It isn't just pageview-whoring…

Casey Rentz takes that whole chicken-egg silliness (solved! say headlines) and gets to the meat of the issue in Which came first, the scientist or the sensationalist? It isn't just pageview-whoring…

Big news, school lunch eaters - your rectangle-shaped pizza will soon be burned and served up cold1 with less sodium! Schwan's Food Service, based in the lovely state of Minnesota, is ahead of…

I expect most of you have heard this song, with its sad words.  It’s full of letters sad and blue, a photograph or two, roses, tokens …. Not for me!  But as I am clearing out our chemical…