World should at least halve CO2 by 2050 - U.N. draft Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Fri, Dec 11 08:02 PM Enlarge Photo An activist from the World…

World should at least halve CO2 by 2050 - U.N. draft Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Fri, Dec 11 08:02 PM Enlarge Photo An activist from the World…

COPENHAGEN – Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them — or at least cut them in half — by…

Biggest climate show on earth to open in Copenhagen Buzz Up Share Copenhagen, Dec 6 (DPA) The Organisers of the Copenhagen summit have urged world leaders to get serious about climate change Sunday…

By Preeti Malhotra, India Syndicate, 07/12/2009Yes, legalise sex trade, but then also legitimise graft Few years back as a practicing advocate, I made a suggestion to a senior bureaucrat in the Delhi…

Copenhagen: A bad deal is worse than no deal The cat is out of the bag. However, the leaked political draft agreement crafted by the Danes holds few surprises. There is nothing in the draft Twitter…

Wen calls up Manmohan to discuss Copenhagen summit Buzz Up Share New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) As India and China face a tough task of tilting the climate change negotiations in favour of…

Tomorrow I will be packing up and leaving CERN to fly back home, after a quite eventful, productive, extenuating, exhilarating week. The reason for my coming to Geneva was the CMS week, an event that…

Via Chris Mooney, I learn that Rush Limbaugh, whose ability to smell out a conspiracy is on par with the ability of the male silk moth to sniff out the presence of a female from miles away, has…

A recent LiveScience article "Americans Believe in God, Astrology, and Ghosts" indicates that the beliefs people hold may actually be contradictory and a mix of a variety of themes. This tends to…

[from guest blogger and podcast co-host Julia Galef] Hey there, rational readers! I’m honored to be Massimo’s guest blogger and co-host of the upcoming Rationally Speaking podcast for the…

China emissions could double by 2020: Experts AFP 10 December 2009, 09:54am ISTText Size:|Topics:China emissions 2020 BEIJING: Despite China's pledges to improve energy efficiency, its carbon…

A team of scientists has detected tiny quantities of the unreactive volcanic trace gases Krypton and Xenon in Earth's mantle, which reveal an isotopic 'fingerprint' matching that ofmeteorites. The…

 When it comes to gambling, many millions of people just don't know when to walk away. The behavior can take a tremendous toll on their finances and family life, and currently available…

An international team of environmental scientists says that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States in the 20th century was 2 millimeters faster than at any point in the last 4…

Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have found an unexpected weakness in H1N1's method for evading detection by the immune system. They say the virus has been keeping…

With the fall semester coming to a close, a Purdue University psychologist has some advice for all those college students who are poring over their notes in preparation for finals. Don't. In a paper…

Paleontologists have unearthed a previously unknown Theropod dinosaur from a fossil bone bed in northern New Mexico, settling a debate about early dinosaur evolution, and hinting at how dinosaurs…

What do you think is the number one reason men gave for cheating on their long term partner? a) Primarily Sexual Dissatisfactionb) Other/no dissatisfactionc) Equal Emotional and Sexual…

What is the number one reason men say they cheat on their long term partner? Is it a) Primarysexual dissatisfactionb) Other/nodissatisfactionc) Equalemotional and sexual Dissatisfactiond)…