Garra rufa - "doctor fish' - are now trendy in some fish pedicure places.  The pedicuree dips their feet (see? I don't specify a gender or make any judgments, I am not Manny Pacquiao) into water…

Barbarians don't get a lot of respect but a previously unknown ancient language buried in the ruins of a 2,800-year-old Middle Eastern palace may get them some. Evidence of the long-lost language,…

What I didn't account for in my last blog post was that there is a first order energy shift due to classical physics.. to IS NOT relativitstic in nature.  This can be understood using E=hf and…

Based on new fossil evidence, the age of the Rhine river is five million years older than previously believed. The famous Rhine of song and legend flows through Switzerland, Austria,…

Men are generally more reluctant to try vegetarian products and a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says that is influenced by a strong association of meat with masculinity. "We…

Don Ritchie earned the title of ‘the Angel of the Gap’ for his tireless attempts over the last 45 years, to dissuade people from jumping to their death from the high cliffs known as 'the Gap' at…

Perhaps it was the title: ‘Acquired preferences for piquant foods by chimpanzees.’ but whatever the reason, Paul Rozin, Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, found it very…

Last year, fiscal hawk Senator Tom Coburn stuck his economic talons into waste at the National Science Foundation. Scientists, alarmed at the prospect of losing funding, circled the wagons while the…

Environmental pollution is “the contamination of the physical and biological components of the earth/atmosphere system to such an extent that normal environmental processes are adversely affected”.…

Around election season, in whatever country you are in (assuming you have elections) you can tell True Believers in their earnest politics truly wish the other side could be labeled as having…