It takes me a long time to write an article, and I’ve started working on one.  Too much in one day, though, and I find that Cerebrum meum est fatiga-tum.So for the meantime I will show you…

Can't make it to the H+ Summit because you're in South Africa for the World Cup?   The folks at the H+ "Rise of the Citizen-Scientist" summit have it covered. Take Scientific Blogging Featured…

BP, GIS and The Mysterious Vanishing Open Letter Subject: BP control of GIS data Regarding the loss of an open letter from the web, from whatever cause. [EDIT]June 15 2010 - 00:23 BST. Important…

The nation's second attempt to launch its first space rocket has failed. Minister of Education, Science and Technology Ahn Byung-man announced in a briefing on Thursday that the Naro space rocket…

What I don't understand is why the Former States of the Soviet Union need Russia in their affairs.  They would be much better off working together, considering that they share a language. …

I just arrived at the Harvard Science Center for a day of collaboration about the future. This should be an exciting day! Follow me on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/neurotechfuture

Today is a good day: I can rest in peace without working out my daily share of science popularization here, because I have something better to do, which will have a much more sizable positive effect…

If you're thirsty and you drink, your brain feels pleasure. You feel this same pleasure, borne of satisfying a physical need, when someone you envy is brought low. We call this feeling schadenfreude,…

If you take a look at a marimba, a marimba has different tones in each pad.  Also, when you hit its volume and timber is slightly differently, in a concave design that is uneven to prevent…

Hello, I happen to have a suggestion for graphic artists.  All of the non biodegradable plastic created by nerbs in you usual chain, doesn't exactly sell the products better than older technique…

Perfidious Albion Caution:  unmitigated whimsy alert! ________________________________ Perfidious Albionor what our literary heritage might have been if we had learned earlier in our history to…

With 1949, we arrive at one of the big classics in the post-apocalyptic genre. George Stewart’s Earth Abides is epic in both scope and ambition, a bittersweet story that captures the immense scale on…

First, they painted a dramatic black-drop, then they presented their latest statistics on public opinion on climate change. TNS gallup organized a press conference at the IPY Oslo Science Conference…

GPS will die, sending airplanes crashing and sinking boats.  Cell phones will fail, stranding travelers and resulting in people in remote areas dying due to exposure.  Worse of all, our TV…

Finger Rafting No, it's not a new sport.  It's one of many ways in which ice consolidates. In order to more fully understand what is happening to the Arctic climate we need to understand how sea…

Is David Beckham a keen physicist?   Though he wouldn't know how to do the equations on a chalkboard, he certainly does it in his head and then with his feet - so perhaps he is an experimental…

A new strain of bacteria  can produce non-toxic, comparatively inexpensive rhamnolipids and effectively help degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs – the environmental pollutants that…

Let's pretend the US is in a bit of an economic crunch and, due to that, universities which up to now have had carte blanche to raise costs any time they like (average - double the rate of inflation…

It's unfortunate but true that we tend to fall for all manner of woo, that we do a poor job of weeding out nonsense from sense. People will believe just about any crazy thing,…

I have come to believe that science has abandoned its viability and veracity.  For example, we can make microcameras and artificial organs but micro technology to fight things like viruses and…