Have you ever caught yourself wondering, upon observing a seemingly utterly unlikely coincidence, whether there was anything supernatural at work that made it happen ? I would guess that all of us,…

I had relatives visiting from out of town and, because they had never been to Las Vegas, we took a two day, one night,  short plane trip over the mountains.    Naturally, I won some…

A Tale Of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens) was a weekly serial publication at this time 150 years ago. My tale of two feathers is about dinosaurs and modern birds with a twist on feathers.…

STUDIES ON BIOMASS UTILIZATION IN A RURAL INDIA AND ITS IMPACT ASSESSMENT ON ENVIRONMENT WITH SUGGESTION FOR POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVES Ashwini Kumar and Santosh Sharma Bio-Technology Lab Department of…

If you ask any one how to define peace the openions may differ but in my openion handing over the same kind of world that we inherited from our parents to our children is peace. Keeping war away is a…

STUDIES ON ‘REALITY’: CHANGING FACES IN ONE FACE   Ayad Gharbawi   October 16, 2009     Why is it that one face can have so many different variations? One face can literally…

www.physlink.com/fun has some great science humor. Check out this poem below by a neurobiologist making fun of physicists: (Cartoons Courtesy of www.physlink.com/fun) The Fate of the Universealso…

This is not about a Mayan 2012 apocalypse.  This is about the 9th century Mayan apocalypse, as documented by NASA.  It's also about modern global warming.  So there's plenty of doom to…

The human heart, a tireless organ that beats within our chests continuously for decades, continues to amaze me, in spite of my having studied it for several years now.  My continued amazement…

WISH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY HAPPY DEEPAWALI & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

No sooner met but they looked;No sooner looked but they loved;No sooner loved but they sighed;No sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason;No sooner knew the reason but they sought the…

When Republicans were told, as part of a recent study, that diabetes results from social factors that mitigate personal responsibility, like a lack of neighborhood grocery stores or government-funded…

I receive a lot of inquisitive emails from intelligent laymen, and today I received a nice one that asked, in so many words, “Is natural selection fast enough to explain the complex biology we find…

I guess it doesn't show up on my blog automatically, but I decree that my contest entry counts as today's Squid-A-Day. So there!

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One of the best books on evolution to come out in this year of Darwin celebrations, Sean Carroll's Remarkable Creatures, is a National Book Award finalist. Read my review, and then go read the book.…

Had you been swimming with the marine fossils that were laid down in the Eocene Epoch in Oregon, some 55 to 38 million years ago, you'd be treading water right up to where the Cascade Mountains are…

While I can appreciate the usefulness of smoking bans, especially as it relates to non-smokers (or even smokers for that matter).  I'm not convinced that the science is establishing a sound…

Calotropis procera (Asclepiadaceae) is a wild shrub, which grows up to a height of 1-3 m and its leaves are 10–13 cm wide by 17–19 cm long. Calotropis procera (Ait.) R.Br. commonly known, as ‘Akra’…

Basil (Ocimum spp.), belonging to the Lamiaceae family, is a pleasent by smelling perennial shrub which grows in several regions all over the world (AKGÜL 1993; BARIAUX et al. 1992). Basil is one of…