Starting from 1982 when I attended 2nd EU biomass conference in Berlin ICC for the first time till this 19th EU in a span of 30 years Biomass has received greater interest from EU and greater…

Conventional Canadian wisdom suggests that all women should have a screening mammogram starting at age 50 (age 40 in most of the USA). The reason given is that mammograms detect cancers earlier,…

Fellow Tubesat pioneer Wesley Faler of Fluid&Reason has calculated power curves we can expect for our orbiting picosatellites.  His summarized estimate is that 6-cell solar panel in a sun-…

The new food pyramid is no longer a pyramid, it is shaped more like a pie...but they don't want you to call it a pie, because that isn't very healthy, so they call it a plate. And it is better than…

Othar Hansson, Software Engineer at Google.com writes: *** Today we're beginning to support authorship markup -- a way to connect authors with their content on the web. We are experimenting with…

One of my friends recently asked for help in designing a giant squid costume to be worn by multiple people. So I sketched this up: In case you can't read my AMAZING handwriting, here's the text: -…

Think you can't live without caffeine?  Some bacteria can live on caffeine.   Previous studies discovered caffeine-degrading bacteria, but new research one goes a step further and…

I don't use auto-correct and you know why?  Because I am never wrong, sure, but also because it is rarely right. damnyouautocorrect.com has their 15 most popular auto-correct errors from last…

The expansion of the universe should slow as time marches on, some even conjectured it would slow and then collapse again - that's what all that mass and its gravity in the universe should do. But…

Here, for completeness, is the last in this group about the BBC series  All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace A series of films exploring the idea that we have been colonised by the…