Are you bored of the Higgsteria yet? Well, here's another issue that needs your attention. The Giant’s causeway is one of the most beautiful examples of columnar jointing in the world, formed during…

What is organic farming and “organic food”?  In the EU in many stores, particularly in Germany, there are shelves with the label “organic food”. To my surprise they cost almost double or one…

This is an apology and a promise - as every time there is a big event or deadline, everything else gets pushed down, creating a long backlog. My mailbox is in an awful state, and here too I am doing…

Crocodiles and humans are natural competitors. In all our history they have been there, silently waiting in the waters of our shared world, and only in our most recent history have we had the wisdom…

Well, that Nibiru rapture on July 2nd never happened but it does not mean we are out of the woods.  In July of 1996, a barely tolerable movie called "Independence Day" had a plot where aliens…

You remember when temperatures became really moderate and every heat wave could no longer be called global warming because we were not warning.  We were enduring climate change instead. That…

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, General in the War On Choice, is nothing if not inconsistent.  You can't decide how much salt to use in NYC or decide what size soda to buy, thanks to imperial fiat, but…

Rolf is drawing the conclusions. He just asked the audience: "I think we have it. Do you agree ?" And a roar of consensus fills the auditorium. The slide says "The observation of a new particle…

At CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest results in the search for the Higgs particle. Both experiments see strong indications for the…

[ The previous entries of this live blogging series are available here (part 1) , here (part 2) , here (part 3) ,  here (part 4), and here (part 5) . The report of the CMS seminar is here.]…