This is the second in a present series, highlighting a particular incidence of  discrimination here and now, and those new to this may consider my intent to do some wider campaigning around this…

It is a while since I wrote anything here: Mea Culpa, I shall eventually resume the series I started, but for now I feel there are more urgent and important issues at stake, for which reason I will…

Cherry Picking At The Tree Of KnowledgeThe fruit of the cherry is easily spoiled: rough handling, bird pecks, insect bites, mold - all can render the cherry unappealing or inedible. The cherry picker…

Just a quick thought, prompted by my response to "TV as Teacher". We can blame the corporate media for pumping our kids full of distorted values and promoting gross stupidity, but the thing is, they…

There are times when online discussions get heated, times when people seem to have differing ideas of what certain concept actually mean. Sometimes Wikipedia helps in gaining at least the first…

    Introduction This document reflects the response of FACT Foundation to the recently published report “Jatropha! A socio ‐economic pitfall for Mozambique”1, by Justiça Ambiental (JA)…

Electrostatic propulsion system concept http://knol.google.com/k/alex-belov/electrostatic-propulsion-system-concept/1xmqm1l0s4ys/15# This electrostatic propulsion concept based on flow of…

Continuing my earlier geomagnetism blurt: University of Rochester geophysicist John Tarduno and an international team measured the magnetization of nanometer-sized magnetic inclusions,…

The recent earthquake in Chile was so big, it altered the earths rotation.  So if you notice the days getting shorter, blame the quake.  According to NASA scientist Richard Gross, the earth…

On March 8th, international women day, the CMS experiment at CERN will be run almost entirely by women. 32 of the 34 shifts needed to run our experiment will be covered by women scientists of our…

During recent National Symposium one of the significant presentation by Professor Akhilesh Tyagi from Delhi brought out the fact that chromosomes of wheat , rice, maize, sorghum and Brachypodium…

Alan Caruba Has A Problem With The Truth About Accuracy In Media Alan_Caruba recently wrote a guest column for AIM.  AIM promotes itself as Accuracy in Media for fairness, balance and accuracy…

Most people think that science is done behind closed doors with expensive equipment, fiddling around with complicated technology by scientists wearing cheap lab coats. The rest of us merely stand on…

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." Plato

The Bud Light commercial about astronomers is astoundingly accurate.  Details they get right include: we like celebrating just about anything, good or bad we drink beer in large groups we…

When I tweet links to science articles, I lose them in the Twitter stream of "more" as they descend further and farther below the bottom of the page. I use Twitterbar to tweet as I browse during…

In the movies  on the crucifixion, were committed a serious mistakes, from the medical point of view, probably dictated by the official iconography that sees the crucifixion with the sounding…

The government is monitoring and restricting my consumption of Advil Cold&Sinus©, and it is all Japan’s fault.A Japanese chemist first synthesized ephedrine into Methamphetamine in 1893. Twenty…

Does Spiderman get wet? The hunt has been on for some time now for what are called superhydrophobic surfaces.  These would be ideal for see-though surfaces such as windscreens and coating for…

The Rules Of Poetry Write what you want   any way that you wish it doesn't even have to scan   as long as it rhymes - -ish. And as long as at least one person says:   " It's good,…