During recent National Symposium one of the significant presentation by Professor Akhilesh Tyagi from Delhi brought out the fact that chromosomes of wheat , rice, maize, sorghum and Brachypodium…

Alan Caruba Has A Problem With The Truth About Accuracy In Media Alan_Caruba recently wrote a guest column for AIM.  AIM promotes itself as Accuracy in Media for fairness, balance and accuracy…

Most people think that science is done behind closed doors with expensive equipment, fiddling around with complicated technology by scientists wearing cheap lab coats. The rest of us merely stand on…

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." Plato

The Bud Light commercial about astronomers is astoundingly accurate.  Details they get right include: we like celebrating just about anything, good or bad we drink beer in large groups we…

When I tweet links to science articles, I lose them in the Twitter stream of "more" as they descend further and farther below the bottom of the page. I use Twitterbar to tweet as I browse during…

In the movies  on the crucifixion, were committed a serious mistakes, from the medical point of view, probably dictated by the official iconography that sees the crucifixion with the sounding…

The government is monitoring and restricting my consumption of Advil Cold&Sinus©, and it is all Japan’s fault.A Japanese chemist first synthesized ephedrine into Methamphetamine in 1893. Twenty…

Does Spiderman get wet? The hunt has been on for some time now for what are called superhydrophobic surfaces.  These would be ideal for see-though surfaces such as windscreens and coating for…

The Rules Of Poetry Write what you want   any way that you wish it doesn't even have to scan   as long as it rhymes - -ish. And as long as at least one person says:   " It's good,…

Do boys and girls learn differently? Differently enough to justify sex-segregated classes and schools? The ACLU says no and is involved in a case in Louisiana: In August 2009, the parents of students…

Key To The Past, Key To The Future This article is a brief overview and history of geochronology. There are many things in nature that tend to grow in layers.  Over the course of over 1,000…

Making love in the middle of the night while both of you are half asleep is undoubtedly pleasurable. But what if you suddenly realize that your partner is still asleep; not just half asleep but fully…

A study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism reports that Vitamin D deficiency may be more common among young people today than most researchers thought. In the study, 59 per cent…

Researchers writing in Nature say they have developed a new strategy to identify and characterize genes involved in endocytosis - the process cells use to ingest substances from the external…

When it comes to wine, 'green' labels just don't pack the same financial wallop that they do for low-energy appliances and organically grown produce. A new study has found that organic labels…

According to a new study of 504 death penalty cases in Harris County, Texas between 1992 and 1999, a defendant is much more likely to be sentenced to death if he or she kills a "high-status" victim -…

 A new study by researchers at the University of Rochester may very well revolutionize the concept of parenting. The study of 226 children from kindergarten up to third grade found that those…

A generation ago it was only a brave eclectic minority of psychologists and neuroscientists who dared to address the arts. Things have changed considerably since then. “Art and brain” is now a…

Disclaimer: As we do not know just how science and society will evolve over the next few decades, much of this is entirely speculative. Good day to everyone. Today I come to you as Toy Soldier…