The success of today's particle physics experiments relies to a surprisingly large extent on a seldom told functionality of the giant apparata that detect the faint echoes of subatomic particles…

While marking old science books as keepers or giveaways, I paused to browse through an old favorite and modern classic published in 1979, the famous "physics for philosophers" book, "The Dancing Wu…

Based on the considerable developments in biotechnology, plant breeders developed more efficient selection systems to replace traditional phenotypic-pedigree-based selection systems. Conventional…

This essay is continued from "Shame Theory" Part I which is available here.     Now let's return to our opening ideas, “The Message.” and “The Phenomenon.” How is it that, in…

    “Humans should be ashamed of themselves.” This will be a predominant message of 2010. I know this is an accurate prediction because I'm one of the people who is going to be…

As described in my profile, I don't want to blog about my own field of research. However, in anticipation of questions about my research, I'm going to write this introductory post. So far, all my…

After posting the thought on facebook, I have decided to begin a blog on this topic. The blog will track my day-to-day research on the subject. Once finally compiled and completed, further action…

Global Cooling : Beyond Parochialism During the next 10 years, climate science and climate science reporting will, I believe, change the public perception of climate change.  More people will…

In the beginning, like attracts like to make a dimer. Nobel Prizes are a rich source of dimers. I counted twenty-three Nobel Lectures with dimers. The wealth…

"One way of thinking about the confinement problem was suggested by e+ e- annihilation into hadrons. Initially, the virtual photon dissociates into a quark and an antiquark that move with almost…

Pétionville, Cité Soleil  Two neighborhoods, same city Port au Prince.  They could not be more different. United Nations peace keeping headquarters, the Hotel Montana (the only…

Earlier this week I argued that biological systems posses dynamical properties that are biologically important, and understandable primarily through mathematical modeling. As an example, I discussed…

Well, he did it again.   The first thing you will be asking me is how Bloggy is off on another adventure with yet another blonde while I am stuck writing about it on the Internet.  It is a…

Where are we?  Cosmically, I mean.  We have barely made steps to get to the edge of our solar system, via Voyager 1 and 2.  It's ironic that we can see back 13 billion years using…

Global Cooling : How Wrong Can You Get? Despite media reports to the contrary, the Antarctic ice is still melting, as noted here: Climate change is warming the Amundsen Sea, which is at the southern…

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ABSTRACT: A large number of hydrocarbon yielding plants like Calotropis procera, Euphorbia antisyphilitica have been reported to yield bio-fuel products. Attempts have been made to increase their…

This morning I was asked to settle an argument about the Magnetic North Pole being a magnetic south pole. That discussion started me wondering about the dynamo theory, widely accepted now, that the…

Using proteosome inhibitors to trick cells into producing a chaperone protein called Hsp70 may be one way of enhancing the natural ability of cells to restore their own mutant proteins. Researchers…

New technology developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Sankt Augustin, Germany may soon help consumers save energy by allowing them to track which devices in their homes are using the…