Chemistry space refers to the combinatorial and configurational space spanned by all possible molecules (i.e. those combination of atoms allowed by the rules of valence in energetically stable…

Christianity has its controversies, like the original date on which Easter is based, but it's a celebration and therefore symbolic.   Muslims are a little more rigorous in their approach and…

It slips from my fingers Cliched grains of sand. I fill my days with work Because it slips, more each Passing day...the slips Growing faster, exponentially, Until I feel that I am…

Stalin hated independence, he hated religion, he hated culture, and he hated 'Girl With An Oar', a statue by Ivan Shadr. Well, it's a 23 foot tall nude so I imagine plenty of people in the West would…

Belief systems are the stories we tell ourselves to define our personal sense of "reality".  Every human being has a belief system that they utilize, and it is through this mechanism that we…

The Lacey Act is one of few government regulations I have praised for its effectiveness.  Few government regulations are actually designed to help anyone, they are either designed to hobble…

A new study, published in Science, describes a multi-gene synthetic circuit that can distinguish between cancer and non-cancer cells, after which it can target the cancer cells for destruction.…

Who knew pizza was so competitive?  I thought the truly ridiculous ideas would come from the uber-egos of Richard Branson and Larry Ellison but, no, it's about pie. Pizza Hut delivered pizza to…

It is sometimes said that top people in their fields are 'a mile deep and a yard wide' because they lack perspective about the broader world. Dr. Judit Nadal, 47, director of the Proteomics Facility…

This is about a thousand kinds of awesome.It's a jazz tune called "Cephalopod" which includes these memorable lines: Cephalopod.Would you like to study cephalopods?Teuthology is a branch of science…