Want to cloud a health and privacy issue?   Label it "male genital mutilation" and wage an expensive marketing campaign to get it outlawed.    If you have no taste for irony, do not…

Want to cloud a health and privacy issue?   Label it "male genital mutilation" and wage an expensive marketing campaign to get it outlawed.    If you have no taste for irony, do not…

I understand we are not the mass market but is there any piece of technology you're going to get educated on by walking into a brick and mortar retail store?    If you look on the Internet…

I understand we are not the mass market but is there any piece of technology you're going to get educated on by walking into a brick and mortar retail store?    If you look on the Internet…

Science 2.0 fave Andrea Kuszewski has a piece in Scientific American on ways to (yes, not just hype on infomercials) increase your brain power. Obviously the big sticking point for many is 'what is…

Science 2.0 fave Andrea Kuszewski has a piece in Scientific American on ways to (yes, not just hype on infomercials) increase your brain power. Obviously the big sticking point for many is 'what is…

Some researchers have wondered why a few credibility issues in particular studies (see Marc Hauser in psychology and parts of the IPCC report in 2007 and anything at all related to cold fusion in…

Despite what some sociologists want you to believe, it isn't always men doing the objectification of women.  At least on Facebook, some women go out of their way to be noticed. The millenia-old…

While wireless Internet has been wonderful, true wireless devices - with no need for batteries - are the real revolution needed in technology to make a more positive environmental scenario for the…

Booze has likely inspired many an action in researchers but any actual science effect was second order.   No more.   Scientists from the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan…

Blogging has been around since the late 1990s and email (effectively) for a decade prior to that - both are now on the wane, according to recent claims (email by social media and blogging by...social…

During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when some parts of America applauded heavy-handed government actions like banning cars (except for important people) to curb pollution, Chinese communist officials…

During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when some parts of America applauded heavy-handed government actions like banning cars (except for important people) to curb pollution, Chinese communist officials…

Walking through the main campus of Reading University, where they have been planting a lot of saplings recently, I came across this: With the sun getting stronger, and the leaves not yet out, one…

Hamlet, the lead character in one Shakespeare's best plays, was a Danish prince - but he may actually have been Irish, according to a piece in the Review of English Studies.   Though this be…

Hamlet, the lead character in one Shakespeare's best plays, was a Danish prince - but he may actually have been Irish, according to a piece in the Review of English Studies.   Though this be…

Some people accept that the world's climate systems are changing, but try to argue that humans are too puny to be any part of the cause. The reason for putting forward such an argument in the face of…

In New York City, you can easily date a different person within a mile of your home for the rest of your life and never come close to duplicating - and that may be why people in New York City have…

One time on a dreary (particularly dreary- 300 of them a year are rather so) Seattle afternoon I was approached by a hobo(1) so I gave him some money and asked him, since he clearly had no place…

In newspaper cartoon serials 100 years ago and in real life for millenia, babies have said "goo goo" and "gaga" - but one recently famous pop music star, who lifted her moniker from Queen's "Radio…