Sahara Dust In European Skies The skies over southern England were hazy on Friday April 08 2011.  In the evening the usual colors of sunset were absent.  A muddy grey-brown haze could be…

How much does science cost-- and how much does it cost to turn science off?  I know science can be done cheaply.  After all, you're listening to a guy who is building a satellite in his…

SUNNYVALE, California, April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Molecular Devices Inc., a leader in bioanalytical systems for drug discovery and development, life science research, and bioassay/test development…

Forbes has done its annual Fictional 15 ranking of the richest fictional characters.    Why?  It doesn't matter why.   #1 is, as you'd expect, Scrooge McDuck, and #2 is Carlisle…

I'll bet that headline made you read the rest, right? It incorporates all the language tricks used by advertisers in the little side ads that compete for your attention on the internet. Let's analyze…

People may object to my calling for Ph.D. programs in Theoretical Phys Ed and Quantum Paleontology, but humor is not far off the mark.  Evolutionary psychology, for example, is practically self-…

In my post about the new CDF signal of a mysterious new resonance decaying to jet pairs, there is an active comments thread. I posted there a graph crafted by Tommaso Tabarelli de Fatis, a CMS…

Actually Paul died in November of 1966 due to a fatal car accident after leaving the Abbey Road recording studios. The evidence for this claim are clues that exist throughout the songs recorded by…

Entanglement, the quantum mechanical phenomenon, was coined as a term by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 but is still not understood completely.    From an applied perspective, while entangled…

Given the wide interest (about 20k readers in a day) that the new article by the CDF collaboration has attracted (see my original post here), I think I should collect in a separate post some…