Spineless Celebration for the New Year!

Spineless Celebration for the New Year!

The first Circus of the Spineless of 2012 is up at Wild About Ants! Check it out for some very doable new year resolution suggestions. (Like "get to know tiny spiders"--we can all do with a little…
Symmetry and the principle of Nature:

Symmetry and the principle of Nature:

In this century, I believe that Physics will enter into an another remarkable area of basic understanding which we can not discover yet. No, I am not saying about the experimental facts of CERN or…
Chesterton and Evolution

Chesterton and Evolution

As some of you are aware, I am a fan of the writings of G.K.Chesterton. In 1903, in an essay The Return of the Angels, he came out with this surprising statement: Of the thousands of brilliant and…
PRCC2 And A More Complete Picture Of Kidney Cancer

PRCC2 And A More Complete Picture Of Kidney Cancer

Two recent studies are providing a foundation for a more complete understanding of distinct kidney cancer subtypes, which could pave the way for better treatments. In a study published in Cancer Cell…
Something Very Silly; Do Squid Eat Crabs Really?

Something Very Silly; Do Squid Eat Crabs Really?

Casual games with squid in them are the new hotness. No, I'm totally serious. There was Halloween Squid, Squibble, Squids, and now, Squid Drop: What a delightful excuse to talk about squid science!…
My Top 10 Particle Physics Articles Of 2011

My Top 10 Particle Physics Articles Of 2011

A blog is by nature a place where things move on fast. Articles disappear beyond the horizon in the matter of a week or two, and only rarely get resuscitated by a later article linking them back from…