On January 10, 2012, President Obama announced appointments to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. One of the individuals he would like to appoint is Peter Bell,…

[Their] monopolistic practices make Walmart look like a corner shop and Rupert Murdoch a socialist - George Monbiot Want to know where a huge amount of taxpayers' money invested into science…

Ari Levaux, a food columnist, wrote about genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in The Atlantic. Fair enough, it is a hot-button issue among anti-science progressives and they need to sell pageviews…

It's often the case that when something claims to cure everything, a little skepticism is warranted.  We have dozens of articles here on Resveratrol but over time the titles began to reflect…

“It is said, with prefect truth as regards many matters, that ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’, but there is no doubt in my mind that even a little knowledge – provided it be sound…

Who do you think will win the Republican presidential nomination? Obsession with this question possesses the entire United States. Today a brief search on Google for “GOP primary prediction” returned…

5,000 years ago, Stonehenge was built.  Beyond that, not much is known. Why it was a built - as a  a temple of healing, a calendar, or even a royal cemetery - and how, has been a matter of…

5,000 years ago, Stonehenge was built.  Beyond that, not much is known. Why it was a built - as a  a temple of healing, a calendar, or even a royal cemetery - and how, has been a matter of…

Part I listed often-overlooked things that when taken along make your trip comfortable, safe, and productive. Part II looks at tasks you’ll find helpful to do before leaving for the airport. As…

A long time ago, in an ocean far, far away . . . I'm sorry, I couldn't resist! I just couldn't resist. But of course it's not really true. Argentina and the British-owned Falkland Islands have been…

Not to play favorites but there is one area where physics has the life sciences beat: sharing.  With preprints and data, the newest findings zip around the globe, before peer review, and science…

Elsevier is spamming my mailbox. You would not expect that from a large publishing company who makes money from publishing scientific papers, but that's what happens. I think I am not alone in…

Rightly or wrongly, the marketing campaign for organic food has worked.  People have demonstrated that they will overpay for organic food despite their being no difference in nutritional value,…

A ceramic stamp has been found in Acre, northern Israel, during excavations at Horbat Uza - but and it dates to the Byzantine Era. The tiny seal has the image of a seven-branch menorah and was used…

A ceramic stamp has been found in Acre, northern Israel, during excavations at Horbat Uza - but and it dates to the Byzantine Era. The tiny seal has the image of a seven-branch menorah and was used…

in part disparate, and in part overlapping, or in exchange, I work on a model for fundamental physics and reality.  The model presents a tiered ternary of perspective and perspective exchange;…

Solitons, also called solitary waves, are an intriguing topic. They are waves which behave much like particles, yet not in the sense of the quantum physical particle-wave-duality, but in a purely…

In November 2011, NASA launched its biggest, most ambitious mission to Mars. The $2.5 billion Mars Science Lab spacecraft will arrive in orbit around the Red Planet this August, releasing a lander…

Progressive journalists love to insist Republicans are both stupid and rich, which would seem to be in defiance of common sense. America's smartest people can't figure out how to make money? It doesn…

Progressive journalists love to insist Republicans are both stupid and rich, which would seem to be in defiance of common sense. America's smartest people can't figure out how to make money? It doesn…