People may say that some countries are rich because nature has gifted them with good weather. It is not true. Germany practices water harvesting systems though it had enough rains. When floods come…

People may say that some countries are rich because nature has gifted them with good weather. It is not true. Germany practices water harvesting systems though it had enough rains. When floods come…

The Wall Street Journal took the Marc Hauser controversy (barely noticed here, because it's evolutionary psychology, which is sort of apodictically evident as bad science so we didn't react to it)…

Here are a couple wonderful instances of people accidentally or intentionally driving nails deep into their gray matter. Can't get enough nails in the brain? Don't worry—I'll post another couple…

With Phil Plait getting his own TV show this weekend, look for new homages ... but why would anyone want to be bad?  I am not sure, though when you make something popular people will copy it,…

A robotic hand attached to a small helicopter can successfully and autonomously grip objects while the helicopter is hovering(link to video there too) ... Article: Paul E.I. Pounds and Aaron M.…

With Phil Plait getting his own TV show this weekend, look for new homages ... but why would anyone want to be bad?  I am not sure, though when you make something popular people will copy it,…

A robotic hand attached to a small helicopter can successfully and autonomously grip objects while the helicopter is hovering(link to video there too) ... Article: Paul E.I. Pounds and Aaron M.…

Britons may be famous for their lack of fashion sense but they may have inherited one of their biggest sartorial crimes, wearing socks with sandals, from Italians.

Britons may be famous for their lack of fashion sense but they may have inherited one of their biggest sartorial crimes, wearing socks with sandals, from Italians.

If you are sad and anxious go to a lake and watch the water coming to shore and going back to lake again in flutters. Water is coming to the shore in the hope that shore will keep it with itself.…

If you ask a non doctor what are the remedies of hypertension and blood pressure its like asking solutions from a student of maths or physics. However great contributions have been made from people…

The Standard Model of particle physics has been under attack since its original formulation, in 1967, and yet it has so far resisted every assault; in so doing it has become one of the most…

We like to make fun of pseudoscience, mostly because it is hypocritical.   It simultaneously says real science is insular and close-minded and BIG and therefore resistant to awesome new ideas,…

From Daily Life in an Ivory Basement: I'm a big believer in open science...but it's always interesting to think about how such things as "data release" can be perverted by clever scientists. I'm…

From Daily Life in an Ivory Basement: I'm a big believer in open science...but it's always interesting to think about how such things as "data release" can be perverted by clever scientists. I'm…

Here's a  video showing how many asteroids we’ve discovered since 1980.  Is it accurate? No idea but we want it to be accurate, which is good enough.

Here's a  video showing how many asteroids we’ve discovered since 1980.  Is it accurate? No idea but we want it to be accurate, which is good enough.

The following parallelepiped was found by Clifford Reiter und Jorge Sawyer (Lafayette College, Easton, Pensilvania) with brute force computer trials. It is a parallelepiped with all three sides being…

Since the prehistoric times when the man learned to make tools from iron he has advanced to make better and better tools. If man has achieved maximum success in one field , its the field of weapons.…