Defrosting The Freezer There are many ways to defrost a freezer.  You can just switch off the power and wait for room temperature to permeate the ice.  You can use a heat source such as a…

  What is Space?    A Brief Exposé of our Neglected Stepchild in Physics           By: David Cox  …

    SUICIDE OF A WOMAN February, 1995 – London   Ayad Gharbawi   Killing Your only Haunted eye And those that witnessed How frail You are Yawn O! How vile Man is!   And…

    Death Of A Friend   Ayad Gharbawi   Say to us Hurtful Words Of changes to come Impersonal   Waves A-wash Upon hearts Mortified – O days; Gone? Or are you To become?…

      AN OLD SUICIDE NOTE     Ayad Gharbawi   From my eye That once Used to win And now Getting to be Upset In my own blood That is still So unreal.   So goodnight…

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I'm fascinated by the effort to reconstruct the Neanderthal life - how they ate, where they lived, their physiology, their cognitive workings, their use of symbols. They were more like us than any…

...Why are you so insistent on the sweeping Poetry of sky and sea? Are you, then, fonderOf the circumference of earth's impoundingThan of some sphere on which the mind might blunder, If you, with…

Shoot. Today I am on strike. This morning I decided to post here an article describing the details of a new result just approved by the CMS collaboration, the observation of a nice signal of phi…

Every now and then, someone invites me to join some social network, and the same thing usually happens: - I sign up, enter in some subset of the usual 'profile' questions (especially the personal…

Sunshine smile is the most amazing expressions on a human face. Cheeky chuckles, blushing ones, blah, blah are the happy expressions on the human face. What happens when the sunshine smile is…

Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers is challenging the theory that the origin of life stems from a system of self-catalytic molecules capable of…

A group of marine organisms called Echinoderms, which includes starfish and sea urchin, has a significant impact on the levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere and that influence has been…

Neuroscientists have forged an interesting partnership with some unlikely molecular characters to accelerate their fight against diseases of the brain and nervous system. Researchers have brought…

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that calcium channels on the tongue are the targets of compounds that can enhance taste. In addition to molecules that directly trigger specific taste…

 Adolescents with earlier bedtimes are significantly less likely to suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts, suggesting that earlier bedtimes could have a protective effect by increasing…

A team of radiologists publishing in Autism Research says that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) process sound and language a fraction of a second slower than children without ASDs, and…

Three weeks of speculations have come to an end. Since this morning Verlinde's paper is available on arXiv.I encourage you to give it a try. The article is well written and the math is limited to…

“Respected expert and director of the institute…” These are the words you hear as you are being introduced at a black-tie speaking engagement. You are an inventor, scientist, or artist, and this…

Perhaps it's resolution-making hangover inherent in the start of a new calendar year and simultaneous beginning of another semester, but I've felt particularly optimistic about my future in graduate…