Random Thoughts

Yesterday, I seemed to be under a giant cloud, with lots up in the air. A difficult ghostwriting deadline for an article about clouds loomed, but the Tortoise Cat signaled we were overdue for a…

Tears For Pakistan A great tragedy is unfolding in Pakistan.  There is not a single region of Pakistan unaffected by floods.  Whole villages have been wiped out and agriculture lost.…

The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) has produced the ISAPS Biennial Global Survey(TM) of plastic surgeons and procedures in the top 25 countries and regions - representing…

"In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist." -- Hitchens Emotions are quick, here and gone, but moods settle upon us like cloaks of fog, obscuring the true lay…

Science 2.0, being about openness and outreach and participation,  can attract its share of kooks.  Depending on the whims of the community moderators around that day, goofy, speculative…

No, this is not about Physics. No, you are probably not interested. No, this blog is not only about science. I sometimes use it as -guess what- a log book, a diary. A habit I have learned five years…

Discover Magazine, both print and online, has been sold to Kalmbach Publishing, which owns publications like Astronomy, Trains and Birder's World. Price: $7 million, says MediaWeek, for a company…

I love Dropbox. I use it to back up and synchronize all my important files, and it has pretty much replaced my need for external hard drives and USB keys. I also use it to share specific folders…

Spitting On Graves There is science, there is bad science, there is propaganda and then there is spitting on graves. I recently wrote about Robert McClure, the man who finally proved the existence of…

Know why BetaMax didn't beat out VCRs even though it was better in every way?   The same reason more people have PCs than Apples.   Strangling the technology with one provider keeps the…