After the fall of the Berlin Wall and, with it, Soviet communism, one of the great joys for this former US Army Signal Corps officer was getting to talk with a former East German officer who came to…

Maurice Allais won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1988.  So why is he of interest here?  His Telegraph Obituary is headed: Maurice Allais, who died on October 9 aged 99, was a Nobel Prize…

I love good comment sections in blogs: Good questions, different opinions, more examples, constructive criticisms, and so on; all this can help to get a much better picture of the issue at hand.…

East and West have developed in different manner. Societies evolved into countries on the global earth not so long ago taking into account history of earth . Man in last 5000 years has evolved What…

Will Jaipur live for another 50 years or not ? There are some reasons to be looked into the matter why Jaipur may not survive another 50 years. 1. Greed of builders to make buildings and selling…

Most of the films in Bollywood show the boy or girl rich or poor hating each other or their parents fighting each other. My foreign Professor once asked me after seeing a movie ( I took great pains…

A few months ago, an undercover investigation by the GAO found patients were getting blatantly ridiculous advice from personal genetic profiling services.   One representative claimed they could…

Mental health clinicians need a new way classify personality disorders.  A more scientific and practical method of categorizing disorders could improve treatment, says a new analysis. The fifth…

In the wake of blackouts across Italy in 2003 and that same year in the US northeast, two recent studies caused a Congress that has usually been preoccupied with important things like a law that will…

Since the 1980s, when lawsuits nearly drove drug companies out of business, a special 'Vaccine Court' has been the route parents of children have to go if they suspect a vaccine was involved in their…

Since the 1980s, when lawsuits nearly drove drug companies out of business, a special 'Vaccine Court' has been the route parents of children have to go if they suspect a vaccine was involved in their…

Astronomers are certainly not strangers to manipulating public relations through mass media - they write reasonable papers and then encourage the press to go nuts with it.   Witness the recent…

An article at TBD.com by Amanda Hess is about HIV-positive black gay men.  Okay, so far so good.   But it had an important typo, namely a key letter left out of a word, and the correction…

People considered Jatropha some kind of miracle plant which will produce tonnes of oil without nutrition, water and good land and good seed or good climate. Researchers are not needed. Agrotechnology…

There is a common song these days speak slowly or else father will be awake. I have not seen the film. Its common story of societies struggling to be called modern , they imitate all dresses of the…

Once I was traveling from north to south in a country of almost 6 to 7 hrs of journey by train which bring you out of the country in that time frame. Now the language will change also. As the train…

A French court has just decided a case that will likely have a great deal of effect on online search engines if the decision is upheld after appeals. A French man had been accused of “crimes…

America's fastest-growing brand of belief is non-belief, says biologist (and guest columnist here) Jerry Coyne in a USA Today editorial. The religious approach to understanding inevitably results in…

America's fastest-growing brand of belief is non-belief, says biologist (and guest columnist here) Jerry Coyne in a USA Today editorial. The religious approach to understanding inevitably results in…

At the dinner held 10 days ago for those who had retired as our department finally closed the day before, my previous PI (until 2002) recommended me to read The Origins of the British: The New…