Random Thoughts

In May of last year, I accepted an invitation from Prof. Dave Deamer to visit U.C. Santa Cruz and it game me the chance to meet Dr. Dick Gordon and also to visit the home of Dr. Bruce Damer. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 24 2012 - 1:11pm

When the Obvious Isn't Enough

A recent article entitled " Fluctuating Environment May Have Driven Human Evolution ", proceeded to take something that is obvious and attempt to create even more significance from it. It is obvious, that environmental changes [yes, including fl ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Dec 24 2012 - 8:48pm

Highlights From The Città Di Padova Chess Tournament

Last week I spent my time playing in a strong chess tournament in Padova. The tournament had 50 participants, among which 11 grandmasters and 10 international masters, and was definitely the strongest event I took part in during my amateur chess career. ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Dec 29 2012 - 9:24am

Science 2.0's Top 10 Most Popular Articles Of 2012

Science 2.0 is not like most other science sites. Aside from not being a part of a billion-dollar conglomerate, our audience is also a little off kilter. By off kilter, I mean ahead of everyone else. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 27 2012 - 2:02pm

Evacuate Earth- National Geographic

I recently watched the full two hours of this presentation [Evacuate Earth] and was disappointed in the fact that speculation rapidly degenerated into silliness, and ultimately pseudoscientific nonsense. ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jan 1 2013 - 8:26pm

Eco-Feminist Dr. Vandana Shiva: Farmers Who Use GMOs Are Like Rapists

Dr. Vandana Shiva, eco-feminist- whatever that means- philosopher and environmental activist does not like that Mark Lynas has changed from being an anti-GMO crackpot, like her, to accepting science. On her Twitterfeed, which is chock full of lunatic ranti ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 5 2013 - 1:30pm

What's the Harm: When Reality and Wishful Thinking Clash

I'm digging around for posts people have written on what to say/what not to say to autistic people and their family members for an episode Kathleen and I are working on for The Blogger Ladies (on The Autism Channel available on Roku) and I ran acro ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jan 8 2013 - 8:21pm

Ever Wonder Why?

While one can't reasonably assume all corporations are corrupt, it is little wonder why so many people are adopting a much more cynical attitude. HSBC got their hand slapped. Of course, none of those responsible were charged with anything. http://w ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jan 12 2013 - 11:51pm

Economic Theory: Tax Rate Mythologies

Any time the subject of taxes comes up with respect to economics we are invariably treated to examples such as the following, to illustrate how government revenue has an effect on the economy. Of course, this is all smoke and mirrors nonsense, but neverth ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Jan 13 2013 - 4:32pm

Gun Control- A Bad Joke

Much has been made of recent efforts to address the gun control issue, in the wake of the shootings of school children in Newtown, Ct. While the media plays up the controversy, and various pundits go through the motions of bringing various pro/anti gun ad ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jan 17 2013 - 9:16pm