Here's a good way to standardize education across the states without enraging powerful education unions and the US Department of Education: get rid of real standards. In a bit of pedagogical…

Everyday we rely on information transmitted through satellites. Some are close, orbiting just above the earth’s atmosphere, while others circle at a distance of 30 or 50 times further into space.…

I quickly wrote a short paper, "Broken Symmetries, Massless Particles and Gauge Fields", which described how gauge theories may evade the Goldstone theorem, and submitted it to Physics Letters. It…

It’s curious, all the press attention lavished on this recent article1 in Jour. Evolutionary Biology. Noting the differing proportions of human hands versus those of other primates, Michael Morgan…

The puzzle of dark energy, the dark cloud of 21st centry physics, is possibly solved. A postdoctorate, Wan-Jiung Hu, solves this puzzle in his book "Theories of Everything by Logic". Wan-Jiung Hu is…

In a recent JAMA article, 2008 National Survey of Mental Health Treatment Facilities data of psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers and freestanding outpatient clinics or partial-care…

About 45 years ago, Penn evolutionary biologist a Daniel Janzen reasoned that change in species from site to site across mountain ranges in the tropics should be greater than in temperate latitudes…

When is it time for parents to help and when it is time to back away? Since kids were having children of their own at age 18 a century ago it seems obvious that hovering over college-age students is…

"GMO Inside" is demanding that America's largest candy sellers, Hershey's and Mars, put GMO warning labels on their Valentine's Day candy or remove these 'risky' ingredients completely. Wait, they…

As some have observed, popular cinema is an influential medium that reflects and shapes social attitudes. Bearing that in mind, how have twentieth century North American movies portrayed…