Is Eyjafjallajökull Playing Possum? Since the April and early May grounding of aircraft in much of Europe, the Eyjafjallajökull eruption has been producing - relatively - much less plume and appears…

Matsumoto and Juang (2008) note that the research done in psychology is “limited to the research that generated them” and the cross-cultural psychology goes beyond typical psychological research in…

"I do not understand why journalists and others want to know about the latest discoveries in physics even when they know nothing about the earlier discoveries that give meaning to the latest…

Players, most loudly in Brazil, are not happy with the Jabulani ball in use for World Cup 2010 and have made no secret about it recently - despite it being in use for months.    There hasn…

No one says, "I am in favor of pollution" but how would anyone know who really cares?   Body language, claims a new book. Professor Geoff Beattie, from The University of Manchester, says…

How geeky do you have to be to attend a mathematical meeting every 4 years - and think India in August is a cool place to do it?   Pretty geeky.   The ultimate geeks. If that is you, we…

Large amounts of money are being siphoned from the multi-billion dollar cigarette smuggling trade and going right into the pockets of terrorist networks and international organized crime.  A…

NASA Goes To The Arctic NASA is sending a team of scientists to study the Arctic at close quarters.  I guess it's pretty hard to sample phytoplankton with a satellite. NASA Icebreaker Voyage To…

Time for a little space business by a citizen scientist-- an ordinary scienc-y person who just happens to be building a personal satellite in his basement.  I'm at the Space Weather Enterprise…

A CNN headline reads "Kids of lesbians have fewer behavioral problems, study suggests". Interesting, but wait... The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, followed 78 lesbian couples…

The polar regions are far, far away for most people. Do not count me in among 'most people' though. As a Norwegian I practically live in the Arctic. There are only 8 nations that are (partly)…

Murphy's Proviso To The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics Notwithstanding anything stated to the contrary in the 2nd law; The amount of energy needed to put right any accidental application of energy will…

Via GenomeWeb's Daily Scan, some comments on the prospects for citizen science in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Only one of the three appears to be an actual research scientist, but they make…

Autism finding could lead to simple urine test for the condition Study suggests that children with autism have a different chemical fingerprint in their urine So says a news release from Imperial…

Some weeks ago I posted a blog Falodi ( Jodhpur Rajasthan India ) and Jaisalmer and Jodhpur recorded 49.9 degree or almost this temperature and yesterday there was news that floods have come…

Arctic Ice June 2010 - Update This is an update to my article Arctic Ice June 2010, part of my ongoing series of articles about the Arctic. The NSIDC ice extent graph shows a fairly constant and…

Terraforming is the concept of engineering planets to make them habitable for terrestrial life. This idea was born out of fiction. Olaf Stapledon, in his 1930 novel Last and First Men, first…

The last couple of months of organizing the H+ Summit at Harvard University, together with Alex Lightman, Kevin Jain, and all the other collaborators of the conference team, have been very intense.…

Ah, the joy to see bosons in our first 7-TeV proton-proton collisions at LHC! The CMS experiment has released two days ago its first results on W and Z bosons, plus many other riches. Of course,…

“An overall cognitive deficit is not a defining feature of autism. “ –Amiet et al. (2008)…“Another difference between past and present autism diagnosis involves the presence of intellectual…