If you leave a job, you likely just leave a job because it does little good to carpet bomb an employer, especially since future employers frown on militant, slightly unbalanced people. But it's a…

The Integrated Surface Database http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd/index.php  is a joint project of the National Climatic Data Center, the Navy, and the Air Force, and is a combination…

While experimentalists gathered in Grenoble present the latest results on High-Energy Physics searches and measurements, phenomenologists like Sven Heinemeyer are working 24/7 to update the picture…

Mark Osteen's One of Us There are many memoirs out there, many stories by individuals about their journeys as parents of disabled children, and some are good, some are great, and others are neither.…

The question 'what can you do with such a tiny satellite' has many answers.  This week we're looking at Calliope's faster, cooler cousin, the ion-drive testing platform called FRETS1. An ion…

Punctuated equilibrium is a model of how evolutionary change happens.  Like how raising taxes can help poor people in economic theory, it is an often-misinterpreted model but means that …

Saxifraga moorcroftiana (Seringe) Wallich. ex. sternb. Family : Saxifragaceae Bhutanese medicinal name : Bri- ta- sa- zin Distribution area: Bhutan, Nepal to S.W. China. Alt. 3,600-4,500m. Alpine…

Ignaz Venetz - Climate Change Pioneer - #3 There is no such thing as a perfect translation. En effet, on peut être utile sans atteindre à la perfection; Agenda, ou tableau général des Observations et…

Age does  a lot of things to us. And to our brains, which shrink when we grow older. Those incredibly complex neural networks inside our skulls not only shrink, but they also become more…

Occasionally, my interests in the psychology of belief and my love of sci-fi intersect. Imagine if you will my howling with disgust when one of my favorite shows perpetuates the 10% myth of brain use…