Kinect for Xbox 360 has an update coming today that brings voice control to living room entertainment.   They are launching an all-new Xbox 360 experience including the first group of new…

Susskind and other usual suspects try hard to convince the world that they are the ones who finally understood 'Many Worlds' and that such is a success of string theory and all that. A media…

Today's squid news comprises four journalistic angles on the same story. See if you can figure out what it is: Squid fishing leads to decline in sea lion numbers Govt 'gambling with the survival' of…

Excerpts from “The Empires of the Mind” and $ Memetics is the study of memes, but a meme is not just any idea, though;…

The controversy over whether or not violent video games are potentially harmful to players has been debated for many years, even making it to the Supreme Court in 2010. There has been little…

The debate over the actual benefit of antioxidants may be ongoing but the studies keep coming in. Regardless of cardiovascular disease medical history, Swedish women who ate an antioxidant-rich diet…

Researchers using the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite have confirmed major reductions in the levels of sulfur dioxide, a key pollutant generated by coal power plants which…

In this post, I want to set off on a voyage, a voyage to visit some of the less well-known volcanoes of the world.  I'll take a look as some volcanoes you may not of heard of, and it will also…

The text below was graciously written for this blog by Alejandro Rivero (below),  a friend who has contributed to this blog other times in the past. His theoretical ideas are off the mainstream…

Astronomers do find massive compact objects in the X-ray Binaries, in the Quasars, in the center of many galaxies. In most of the cases, the radius of such objects could be few Schwarzschild Radii…