Back in 2009 I wrote in this blog a rather technical post about something I had called the “greedy bump bias.” (GBB) The effect I referred to had emerged from a 2003 CDF study of mine, where I…

Gather 'round, listeners, and learn of the storytelling ape. A new paper suggests that storytelling may have have been why human communication evolved from the ape-like systems our primate cousins…

The Canadian capital of Ottawa was bombarded with 167 millimetres of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a one-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 basement-flooding reports…

In 2009, with a Democrat back in the White House, corporate science and medical journal publishers asked Rep. John Conyers, Jr., a staunch ally of President Obama, to get the new president to issue…

Neuroscience treats consciousness as something produced by the brain but a recent paper suggests that conscious experience is shaped through a continuous, rhythmic dialogue between the brain and body…

He didn't call it a Moonshot or a Manhattan Project of Space, that is the kind of language his political opponents use(1), President Trump announcing a U.S. Space Academy invoked something even…

An old saying is that dogs age seven years for each human one and a new study finds that the comparisons between humans and man's best friend are even closer than that. The work associated small…

Actors are famous for manufacturing traumatic situations about every movie they've done but the public builds that into their psychological makeup. People just chuckle that millionaires on union-run…

The world has spent $9,000,000,000,000 on alternatives to energy and has very little to show for it. The share of conventional energy has dropped by 0.2% while 2,000,000,000 people still use dung and…

Once again, maths is the most popular A-level subject. There were 115,380 entries in the subject in 2026, an increase of 3.9% from 2025. Further maths AS-level entries enjoyed an 8.5% increase from…

During the Obama administration, he was concerned about vaccines causing autism and it showed when it came to guidance about swine flu vaccines. His administration banned multi-use vials because of…

Alcohol is a legitimate class 1 carcinogen but if you are going to roll the dice with cancer, tariffs have made it more affordable.  In 2018, the Trump administration began to place retaliatory…

Intermittent fasting, and fasting in general, has been a popular fad health gimmick, but the science isn't on its side. Instead, proponents believe mice are little people so if mice weaned on…

Thinking used to be so fast that it was the pinnacle of speed to people. In 1849, Hermann von Helmholtz set out to make the mystical quantifiable and measured nerve impulses. They were electrical and…

Wormhole begins quickly. Hannah McElhinney’s cousin, who has travelled to Malaysia for a medical treatment, has sepsis. She’s in a coma. One page later, she’s dead. The pacing of the book’s opening…

Every summer is getting hotter. Wildfires are blazing, and the worst is yet to come. There’s nothing to be done – we’re doomed! Sound familiar? This “climate doom” narrative can dominate the news…

Halloween is the most rumor-prone of holidays. If you read the folklore that passes as social media, Halloween has its own holiday character, like Santa, but he's named Secret Sadist and putting…

It is with quite a bit of sadness that I received this evening the news of the passing of Antonio Rosino. Antonio, born in 1942, graduated in mathematics in Padova, after which he taught Maths and…

Across Europe, running a home – whether you need to keep it cool in the summer or heat it during winter – usually means burning imported gas. That wastes energy and creates carbon emissions,…

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, is reviled by elitists in the literature field because things he wrote, such as "the pen is mightier than the sword" and "it was a dark and stormy night…