Saturday morning breakfast cereal just ran an excellent commentary on interdisciplinary (ex-pat?) physicists. This cartoon just kept popping into my mind as I read a recent paper on gradient…

“And then I was like FUUUUUU”. This is how stories end nowadays. I dare to make a claim about the flow of stories because I believe the ontology of stories follows a predictable and stable pattern…

While most High-Energy Physicists nowadays are kept busy with the idle search for non-existent new physics beyond the standard model in the form of improbable Supersymmetric particles, phantom…

I do not usually shoot of little posts re-tweeting stuff I found, but the total destruction that is David Albert’s New York Times book review “On the Origin of Everything” reviewing “A Universe From…

There are 20,000 miles of pipeline in Nebraska criss-crossing the Ogalalla aquifier.  A company wanted to add 400 more but President Obama overruled scientists and declared the addition…

It's the biggest news in fast food - Starbucks Frappuccinos have bugs.  On purpose. The company has started using cochineal extract to supply its Frappuccinos’ strawberry color - hey, that beats…

Last night, off the coast of Virginia, NASA launched five small rockets in five minutes as part of the ATREX (Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment), to test the winds of the upper atmosphere.…

In the era of Big Science, it is often assumed that cutting-edge research can't be done cheaply.  Yet even now a piece of tape can lead to a Nobel prize.  Andre Geim and Konstantin…

Acacia catechu Willd. Vernacular Names :- Assam : Kat, Khair, Khoira, Koir ; Bengal : Khayer, Kuth ; Bombay : Khaderi, Khaira, Khera ; Central Provinces : Khair ; Ceylon : Karangall, Kashukutta,…

Could the big split among anti-science hippies occur over a cute little cat? PETA loves animals.  Greenpeace hates genetic modification and science in general because changes are only 'natural'…