Random Thoughts

Recently a friend of mine got diagnosed with breast cancer.  It was devastating, and she started to go through the usual stages that people do when dealing with tragic news.  My wife told…

If you hear someone outside science disparage the word 'consensus', they are talking about climate science - and the reference is not positive.  'Consensus' means a general agreement, of course…

Given the flakiness and rush of shipping at this time of year, if you intend to order something online, you really need to do it today. Sure, you can take a flyer on next week but if you have Amazon…

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/30/vancouver-health-body-begins-fr… http://ca.news.yahoo.com/deeply-concerned-mutated-birdflu-research-1215… http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2011/12/09/UNL+…

“How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown” by Edward Shorter. Oxford. $29.95, 272 pages. Publication date March 7. The author is a professor in the history of…

Zombies are really popular - "...and zombies" attached to the end of well-established works of fiction have become a common trope and once they began to swarm over the literary canon, it was only a…

To readers of Science 2.0, Pope Urban VIII is almost exclusively known for having summoned Galileo to Rome in 1633 and forcing him to recant his work.  However, from what I watched on TV last…

"In God we trust, all others bring data" William Edwards Deming

I won't bore you with an introduction but I'll just say "Ghostbusters" is one of the funniest movies of all time. So I decided to live blog it, but just the science parts. Let me know how I did.…

With 365 days in a year and a whole lot of causes and events and gimmicks, it is no surprise that there are sometimes lots and lots of 'National XYZ' Days on the same day. The National Months get…