Random Thoughts

This Father’s Day, for the first time in my life, I find myself nearly struck dumb with fear. I am the proud father of a one-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl whom I love more than the sun and…

The World Cup is fast approaching and with it come no end to projections, estimations and forecasts about who is going to do what.  Using a Bayes analysis, once you reach the semifinal you have…

Contained therein was a reality show about sheep. I get it, they want to sell eyeballs some ads, but surely there is a female scientist out there with more than a Master's degree and who happens to…

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has announced that the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is accepting applications for projects related to  abandoned mine drainage projects . You'll…

American Council on Science and Health is an advocacy group consisting of hundreds of scientists, doctors and policy experts devoted to science outreach. They've been around since the 1970s, when the…

MH370 - Why Search Teams Ignored Georesonance As soon as I read about the claims that Georesonance identified an aircraft wreck at the bottom of the Bay of Bengal my bogusness meter went off the…

The 35th international chess tournament in Mogliano Veneto this year did not feature strong grandmasters or international masters, but a pack of 24 local players of average strength around 2150.…

Debris Find - Likely Came From A Caravan Yet another mystery object turns out to be unrelated to missing flight MH370. FAIRFAX Media has received photos of the debris found near Augusta which…

Today, the Boy Scouts of America seemed to back peddle on last year’s promise to accept and recognize gay scouts--by rejecting and banning a gay scoutmaster who was...gay. Why did the organization do…

Long-time readers of this blog (are there any left ?) know me well since I often used to  write posts about personal matters here and in my previous sites. However, I am aware that readers come…