Attending the AAAS symposia on "Facing the Uncertain Future of International Science Journalism" I was stunned by something:   I am the most hated guy in every room I walk into. Donald…

  QUESTIONS SCIENCECAN NEVER ANSWER   Ayad Gharbawi   February 20,2010 – Damascus, Syria     Thereare far too many aspects of ‘Reality’ that atheistic scientists…

People want to see awesome stuff. That's the main idea behind this blog, and the interpretation of a recent report on people's decisions to share New York Times articles with friends (via Rycharde…

Whether you are new to blogs or a practised poster, Eureka’s Top 30 Science Blogs will not disappoint. After much heated debate, the Eureka team have picked 30 of their favourite science, environment…

What to look for in the next decade, as far as squid are concerned? Certainly new species will be discovered and described. Fisheries will probably spring up for species that have never been fished…

Yes, you can view a famous poster on this red brick wall until April 12. The Berlin Medical Historical Museum (Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité) started a new Fritz…

A Personal Belief Tester : Batteries Not Included We all have our personal beliefs; it's a part of being human.  Mostly, we can believe just about anything we want at a purely philosophical…

(Note: Please excuse my lack of a symbolic logic font. LaTeX doesn’t suit my preferences.)(If you haven’t read the first three parts of this series, you’re just asking for a spanking. Go here.)…

Did music evolve before language?  It's not a trivial idea and there has been debate about it since literally the days of Darwin - Sir Charles himself proposed the notion in "The Descent of Man…

    In the first two parts of the H.D.T. essays, we discussed the constituents of paradigm as explained in the Philosophy Generator and the ability to use the chart as a path to Anti…

(If you haven’t read part one, please click here.)        Firstly, having caught a glimpse of the power and prowess of the practise of philosophy, I'm sure one can…

    We begin by examining the contents of your mind. Our goal in this four part discussion will be to separate the ideas we have concocted for ourselves from the ones that are…

Day one if you missed it.  Science is sometimes about  taking a hunch and amassing data to confirm the hypothesis.  I am still amassing data but I am reasonably sure the way to know…

The FBI yesterday released a 104-page report laying out its case the the 2001 anthrax attacks were committed by a US Army bioweapons researcher, Dr. Bruce Ivans. Some are arguing that this report isn…

Doctors can now understand better chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), including how it responds to therapy, thanks to a new mathematical model for the disease developed by scientists in Portugal,…

Assorted creationists claim variously that creation theories are falsifiable and that evolutionary theories are not falsifiable. Here, I want to quickly point out a few flaws that I see in their…

When I am out doing bug programs I am often asked (with a slow-down-to-look-at-an-accident wince); “where do you keep all these bugs? Do they stay at your house?” I explain about the…

Good to see that even if journalists can't be bothered to investigate the links between tobacco companies and so-called scientific research, then at least some scientists are doing so. This study,…

Heads up, banner-plane pilots: you, like so many before you, could lose your job to a sleek, 21st century technology that not only performs better than you, but looks way cooler doing it. A new…

There is a new article out in today’s Molecular System Biology, which has the media saying the typical baloney-filled things like “The Key to Aging Discovered,” “Breakthrough to Immortality,” and…