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No one disturbs his fellow men with a new view unpunished. - Ernest Mach, "A New Sense", quoted in Edmund Bolles, Galileo's Commandment, p. 27

Here's a 15 minute video of Scientific Blogging featured writer Jane Poynter talking about her 2 years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2, along with what she is doing to save Biosphere 1 (errrr, that…

Not all job rejections are equal. Being turned down from the 'Wally the Whale' fish sandwich stop at age 17, for example, was probably a blessing in disguise. Also humorous, as it was my first…

David Pogue's secrets to his productivity: I use typing-expansion software...I use dictation software...I know where everything is. Years ago, I started using an address-book program that’s now…

Let me introduce myself an environmental activist when I was young now older I am a scientist solving problems. I work every day in my field environmental agriculture lab. I am an expert in various…

A Science Of Human Language - Part #2 Quistic Grammar : A New Universal Grammar In Part #1 of this series, I suggested that a grammar heavily based in syntax was not sufficiently scientific as a…

That DNA evidence that could exonerate you? You don't have a right to it, says the US Supreme Court. Actually, not being a lawyer or constitutional scholar, I don't know what kinds of evidence you…

Electrical arcs stabbed through the violet dusk. Heated solutions groaned toward their boiling points. Bubbles rose helically through luminous green liquids. Miniature explosions occurred in distant…

When you are concentrating on something, neural "noise" may cause you to miss important changes in your environment, new research indicates, and this binocular rivalry which occurs when the two…

According to results of a study published in Cancer Prevention Research,  men with prostate cancer who consumed the active compounds in green tea demonstrated a significant reduction in serum…

Sperm bigger than the actual creator of the sperm and phallic mushrooms have been all the rage this week, but immobilized microbes that can break down potentially harmful Phthalic Acid Esters (PAEs),…

Plagued by jet lag?   If we can send a rocket to the moon why can't we figure out how to fly to different time zones and still be fresh?  Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the…

The Pacific Northwest is an area of extreme natural beauty and rich fossil deposits. While we do not have the dinosaur bragging rights of our cousins to the east and south, we have beautiful plant,…

More incredible finds from the Messel Pit: "These 49 million-year-old freshwater turtle fossils are believed to have died of poisoning during copulation." (Photograph: Jonathan Blair/Corbis,…

In the first article on this topic, I suggested that we can measure what people prefer and value, but we don’t know the “why” behind those preferences and values. An evolutionary psychologist…

I have a hard time believing this is for real: Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Buffalo Museum of Science say we've been making a mistake using DNA to contend that humans…

Renate Matzke-Karasz from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich  has led an international team of scientists who are studying sperm specimens from the London Natural History Museum’s collections…

Over at the Monkey Cage: Fact: Academicians tend to be politically differentiated according to discipline, with those in the social sciences and humanities on the left, those in the natural sciences…

Stimulated by Michael White  (who just posted his Morning Science Quote,  "Light is the principal means by which we are able to transmit and receive information from objects around us and…