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…

Scienceblogs.com stalwart Bora Zivkovic has bid farewell to that site, the latest in a series of defections they hyper-dramatize as a 'diaspora' due to recent events, but he says it isn't about…

I was relaxing out back, watching fireflies flash, when a buddy, dad to boy and girl 11 year old twins, called to catch up with news and relate a funny (still unfinished) story. Growing crankier by…

I am playing with Coq and Isabelle now :) Formalizing the following: fun p(a) = if (p(a) % 2 = 0) then (p(a div 2)) else (a).The greatest divisor of a, which is power of two = p(a). I want to show…

Jakobshavn Glacier Second Calving ?The calving front of Jakobshavn glacier has retreated dramatically since about 1850, to the point that the two main outflow ice streams can be seen as separate…

Most of us are good at one thing; sports or science - Josh Witten is an exception but he may have found his match in Sweden's Elin Ekblom-Bak, who jacks up goals for a professional women's football…

Most of us are good at one thing; sports or science - Josh Witten is an exception but he may have found his match in Sweden's Elin Ekblom-Bak, who jacks up goals for a professional women's football…

Strange creatures have been inhabiting London’s construction sites. Artist Zara Gaze knows more about their nocturnal origins. Artist Zara Gaze calls the installations “sandalism” - I call it…

Strange creatures have been inhabiting London’s construction sites. Artist Zara Gaze knows more about their nocturnal origins. Artist Zara Gaze calls the installations “sandalism” - I call it…

Hat tip to Colin Schultz

Hat tip to Colin Schultz

Hypatia was, if we are being honest, one of the sexiest women ever -  not because of looks, on that we have no clue, but because this fourth century citizen scientists discovered the sun was the…

Hypatia was, if we are being honest, one of the sexiest women ever -  not because of looks, on that we have no clue, but because this fourth century citizen scientists discovered the sun was the…

Humans are very, very bad at being random. In roshambo, aka rock, paper, scissors, this leads to probabilities and patterns which you can exploit to give your RPS opponent(s) severe and repeated…

Benguela-goby, or bearded goby, is a fish species that has adapted to a hostile environment poisonous to most other organisms.   This little goby-fish (Sufflogobius bibarbatus) reaches a maximum…

Arctic Ice July 2010 - Update #3 An update and a bit of Arctic history. Despite the extensive cloud cover over much of the Arctic it is possible to see some interesting patterns of behavior. Around…

Ladies, are you tired of your significant other buying wargames and stupid cartoony things with fake Italian accents?    Wish the Wii could be more practical?   Here it is ... the Shii…

Ladies, are you tired of your significant other buying wargames and stupid cartoony things with fake Italian accents?    Wish the Wii could be more practical?   Here it is ... the Shii…

So, now we know. There is no 3-sigma signal from the Tevatron.... Sure, because they have not combined their MSSM searches yet! Crucification I will spend little time here discussing the various…

Genes specific to sex change rapidly but there is one sex-specific gene so vital its function has remained unaltered throughout evolution and is found in almost all animals, according to new research…