The fundamental evolutionary advantage of human beings over all other species on this planet is our ability to make things. We make tools to make more complex tools to make end products…

If you're a Steampunk fan, you are not used to seeing hot girls.   Oh, and you think it's 1995. Just kidding, there is no better time than going to a local coffee house and seeing a Steampunk…

If you're a Steampunk fan, you are not used to seeing hot girls.   Oh, and you think it's 1995. Just kidding, there is no better time than going to a local coffee house and seeing a Steampunk…

I've been busy with proposal work instead of Calliope.  I have to fund this satellite somehow, and earning money writing corporate proposals is enjoyable work.  Proposal writing is also a…

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal tackles logic for those of you who don't like Latin:

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal tackles logic for those of you who don't like Latin:

It is just before dawn. The raft has rotated on its mooring and aligned to the new direction of the tidal flow. The hydro generator has just come on-line again, and its low whine pervades the silence…

The origin of physical dynamics and the reason of existence of special relativity are explored. This endeavour is started by analysing the logic of nature. Next, only mathematics is used in order to…

"The only use I know of a confidence interval is to have confidence in it" L. J. Savage, in "The foundations of statistical inference", Methuen, London (1962).

Dr. Paul Offit is the Hillary Clinton of the autism world. Or is he? It seems really unfair that a well-respected pediatrician and infectious disease expert who has devoted his career to saving lives…

I enjoyed a drink one time with a fellow who was, even for science blogging, left of left.    I won't name names because it doesn't matter, he is a talented writer and a good guy but I…

Today I am going to send you over to Deep-Sea News for your squid fix. Because Dr. M has just made the compelling case that Giant Squid Are Awesomesauce. There's really not room for debate. (There…

Can complex traits lost during evolution recur later?   It was an academic argument but now it has some more data.  Writing in Evolution, a study analyzes Gastrotheca guentheri , a…

Every science writer has their own reasons for getting into science communication—their own goals and purpose that drives them. Some are focused on science literacy—their aim to take a complicated…

The comments thread for an article that I wrote a couple of weeks ago has suddenly been swamped by the replies of a young-earth creationist. Perhaps I should have expected it, with an article about…

It wasn't easy to like "Superman Returns".   Certainly, it was designed to reboot the franchise after "Superman II" but it ended up needing a reboot of its own.    There were a few…

It wasn't easy to like "Superman Returns".   Certainly, it was designed to reboot the franchise after "Superman II" but it ended up needing a reboot of its own.    There were a few…

Usage-Based Billing, where users pay for access by the Giga-Bit, hasn't been around since the 1990s - we think, anyway.  It's been a long time since AOL was able to use that business model to…

Usage-Based Billing, where users pay for access by the Giga-Bit, hasn't been around since the 1990s - we think, anyway.  It's been a long time since AOL was able to use that business model to…

A week ago a meeting was held in Chamonix to discuss in detail the schedule for the near future of the Large Hadron Collider, and to take a decision on the schedule, in particular for 2012.…