I confess. I had cancer. And stem cells might be to blame! At the relatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be an older man’s disease: prostate cancer. How could this…

I confess. I had cancer. And stem cells might be to blame! At the relatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be an older man’s disease: prostate cancer. How could this…

I confess. I had cancer. And stem cells might be to blame! At the relatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be anolder man’s disease: prostate cancer. How could this…

I confess. I hadcancer. And stemcells might be to blame! At therelatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be anolder man’s disease: prostate cancer. How couldthis…

A couple of curious squid stories have been peppering my news feed this weekend:First, a dried squid in Hawaii looked enough like a severed hand to get the homicide brigade called out to the beach.…

When you think of underwater photography, you probably think of the clear ocean waters of the Bahamas or other exotic tropical locales - certainly that's where I would go. Andrej Belic has other…

It was many years ago we pointed out some real flaws in the 'skeptic' movement - first is that it is mostly about ridiculing religion and Bigfoot and if those are the only things you can be skeptical…

In the last few days I described in some detail (here and here) the six searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson just produced by CMS, the experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider to which I…

You know how you'll be swimming along (metaphorically), going, well geez, things are going pretty well, knock on wood? And then, bamm! You say those words, even invoking superstitious protections,…

There's a giant ceramic squid in a New York art gallery. Walking into the gallery, you encounter the 16-foot-long, beached creature, its opalescent, slick-looking flesh seeming to putrefy, lying in a…