The DZERO collaboration just sent to the Cornell ArXiv a paper which presents their new precise cross-section limits for the rare decay of mesons into pairs of muons. This important new article hides…

MODIS Rapidfire For Citizen Scientists - #3 This is part #3 of a brief explanation of the NASA/GSFC MODIS Rapid Response System - Rapidfire - together with a Howto for citizen scientists.  The…

Yesterday I posted the highly insightful and scientifically bullet proof (wink-wink, nod-nod) Robin Hood Morality Quiz—you shoulda ranked Robin, Maid Marion, Little John and the good sheriff of…

Okay, It has happened now.  I am starting to notice that there are some wonderful movies available on netflix that represent a much larger spectrum of life than I have found available on the…

All one needs from fruits is their special taste. I very much like cherries of Germany in this season aAs  they are proper mix of sweet and sour which gives a special taste. What regulates their…

If evolution of a man took place in different regions the world the  communication adopted the shape of dialects and languages. Hunders of dialetcs or dozens of languages can be found in…

Chemistry labs just don’t smell like they used to.  When I were a lad, chemistry lessons involved a procedure called Qualitative Inorganic Analysis.  This involved bubbling hydrogen…

Religion, regardless of one’s personal religious or spiritual beliefs, matters. The chances of being part of a diverse religious affiliation increase as our global community expands. McFaul (2006)…

Ok, let me get one thing straight, Dogs are not responsible for global warming, humans are.  I realise there is a vocal minority out there who are climate deniers, Like the environment minister…

Read the following story and then rank Robin, Maid Marion, the sheriff of Nottingham and Little John from most to least moral (I'll post interpretation instructions tomorrow): The sheriff of…

Consistent with the Standard Model of particle physics, there is postulated a Higgs field which determines those particles which are massive and those which are not. Photons are massless. Gluons also…

Last weekend, Boston was taken over by the Transhumanists, for the gathering of the 2010 Humanity Plus (H+) Summit at Harvard University. The H+ Summit was two glorious days of information loading,…

BP's Tried And Tested Failures If you have a problem which has been attacked before, you don't try failed methods again unless your name is Homer Simpson - or you are too young to remember the event.…

One thing the film industry get right - and they don't get much right, since romantic comedy behavior in real life is likely to get you a restraining order - is that music evokes moods. French…

Giant freak waves - seriously, that is what oceanographers and physicists call them - are called that because they can appear on the open sea out of nowhere. Researchers from the Ruhr-…

Scientists from the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Collaborative Research Center 746 of the University of Freiburg say they have discovered a new mechanism which plays an…

For our 1951 pick, we have the work of one of the great British writers of sci-fi’s Golden Age. In The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham presents a horror story of giant, ambulatory, flesh-eating…

When Art Meets War If you want to make a good historical movie you should find yourself a good historian. If one of the characters is a singer, make sure they sing in a contemporary style. Now add in…

"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you" G. Marx