An argument in the business world is how happy you can make employees while still maintaining a job standard.    JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater cursed out a passenger, grabbed two…

A long-standing argument for public schools over home-schooling and more kids versus one is the social aspect.  Honestly, sending kids to school so they can learn to feel bad about their…

Obesity rates have leveled off and even started to decline for many adolescents, but not certain racial and ethnic minorities, according to a new study.  The study says it is the first to find…

Coal isn't popular everywhere these days, particularly in Africa.  Driven by economic growth and demand, electricity within sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly approaching supply capacity and in many…

A post on the Science Codex caught my attention (You think of your dog as one of your children? You probably live in the city). Of course, my first reaction was that this guy clearly lived in the…

To Anthony Watts, Letter before action in accordance with the rules of common law jurisdictions in general and of the English Civil Courts1 in particular. In the general context of this letter, my…

The redefiner Ɽt can be mimicked by a trail of infinitesimal unitary transforms. Each subsequent trail element has eigenvectors that differ from those of its predecessor. These eigenvectors are also…

The difficult thing about popularizing movements is that, in the beginning, you want recognition but as time goes on the interests of the movement may be divergent from the people involved in it.…

Not long ago, many scientists had the belief that after the age of about three, the brain was pretty much fixed in function. You could imprint new memories and learn new skills, but that was about it…

W bosons have been thoroughly studied at the Tevatron collider. Discovered by the UA1 experiment at the CERN SppS proton-antiproton collider in 1984, these particles have since been produced also in…

Largest thermometer that does no thermometing, largest shopping cart and even the largest ... particle collider.   Though at least we hope that last one will do something meaningful. It's all…

Largest thermometer that does no thermometing, largest shopping cart and even the largest ... particle collider.   Though at least we hope that last one will do something meaningful. It's all…

About 18 months ago, in late January 2009, during the tempestuous cyclone Klaus in France, which killed 26 people and wreaked enormous damage to the nearby once ancient region of Aquitaine, a new…

A new type of operator is required. Why? Because unitary transformations cannot move subspaces of a Hilbert space. They cannot move their own eigenvectors. Since their eigenfunctions span the whole…

As a first post (ever) I would like to write a little about Santorini, the volcano I plan to spend the next three years studying.  It may be a little self-indulgent, but I hope you'll find this…

You must be quite familiar with what happens when you toss a pebble into a pond. You might describe the simple event as a massive rotating object splashing into a deformable fluid. Or, you might… not…

Propaganda - An Application Of The Forgetting Curve Learning curves,  forgetting curves, adjacency and the scientific roots of the black art of propaganda. Modern rules of propaganda have their…

Zombies - A Public Policy StudyFound last night during a Google search for latest news about something entirely unrelated to this search result: Night of the Living WonksToward an international…

The responsibility of Twitter updates got you down? D'you think about tweeting but never actually get around to it? Never fear, Adam Wilson is here. The University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical…

Sexual images trigger chemical reactions in your brain, which in turn compel us to act in specific ways, or be drawn to certain things, or motivated to engage in particular behaviors. It's common…