People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is happy to objectify live human women in order to protest eating dead animals, but they aren't going to win every time, even when it comes to…

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is happy to objectify live human women in order to protest eating dead animals, but they aren't going to win every time, even when it comes to…

Sometimes you put things in the platform of a political party because it's a lot of drama to exclude them even if you don't really believe.  So we get hilarity like last week, with Republican…

If you, like me, are possessed with that gene that makes people eat the whole bag of chips (don't laugh - somewhere in that 100,000 words of ENCODE public relations blitzing, I saw it), there is good…

If you've been in science media for any length of time, there are two arguments you will hear invoked to support almost any questionable position; that Einstein did his best work while he was a…

While teaching to students algae I suddenly discovered that Blue green algae has been shifted to bacteria and named as Cyanobacteria. I strongly object to this though with no power but all reasons…

Is food safety a contentious election issue?  The Center for Food Safety and the Center for Environmental Health say changes to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) have been held up in…

Is food safety a contentious election issue?  The Center for Food Safety and the Center for Environmental Health say changes to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) have been held up in…

"Heritability" is a term used in many articles and through much of the scientific literature and invariably promotes the idea that it relates specifically to inherited traits.  As a result, it…

Millennials, depending on who you ask, are up to 34 years old and have their own children but they still seem to like shopping for food at gas stations so food companies are scrambling to create…

Millennials, depending on who you ask, are up to 34 years old and have their own children but they still seem to like shopping for food at gas stations so food companies are scrambling to create…

Joe DiMaggio was a great player. He holds the record for hits in consecutive games (56) and he had only 8 more strikeouts than homeruns.  He also married Marilyn Monroe.  In his older days,…

Joe DiMaggio was a great player. He holds the record for hits in consecutive games (56) and he had only 8 more strikeouts than homeruns.  He also married Marilyn Monroe.  In his older days,…

Nestlé, the world's largest food company, says the UN, the US and EU are all wrong on activist-created biofuel targets. As everyone who is not an environmental activist predicted, subsidies for…

Nestlé, the world's largest food company, says the UN, the US and EU are all wrong on activist-created biofuel targets. As everyone who is not an environmental activist predicted, subsidies for…

Dr. Brian Wansink, professor of marketing  and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, has tackled weighty issues such as what the paintings of "The Last Supper" can tell us about their…

Want to avoid a baby mama without getting surgery or enduring condoms that are too small?  Men may soon have the same choice as women when it comes to birth control. A male contraceptive pill…

The Quest project, the first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project for an oil sands operation in Canada, has gotten support from the Governments of Canada and Alberta and will soon be underway,…

Drought across the United States has reduced substantially the expected yield of corn and soybean fields for the fall 2012 U.S. harvests. With reduced yield, prices have risen rapidly for these…

Being on a UN committee to discuss climate change must be a lot of fun; you get to fly to exotic locations and no one ever expects you to get anything done.  I guess that applies to the UN…