Pas de Calais was the smart choice for an invasion by the Allies in 1944 - it had a port that could easily be used for the largest ships and was a short distance to England. A BBC story details how…

Last year I attended a singularity conference and Ray Kurzweil's avatar predicted it was 25 years away.   Well, it's been 25 years away for a long time.  It's a nice, safe number, close…

Green house gas emissions are natural with use of fossil fuel resources and increasing levels of Carbon di oxide are causing great concern. “Scoping meeting on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate…

In the ongoing concern about future generations not being as intelligent as prior ones, due to computers, video games and what not (in my day it was calculators that would lead to brain rot) the many…

We've all heard of the Wright Brothers, the father of flight, as it were.  But early in their day there was some understandable skepticism about what they claimed to have done. Here, from Feb.…

Just that I was recovering from a tooth ache and being lectured upon dental anesthetics, that I came across an interesting experiment on understanding pain.  I hope this can alleviate the pain…

Kathy Weston's personal tale of how a promising academic career gradually went off the rails as her interests changed.   No discrimination, she has no white, male privilege to blame, the job…

You may remember a short while ago the concerns about the metered Internet experiment in Canada, courtesy of the government.    Usage-Based Billing may be leaving as quickly as it came…

Metastasis is when tumor cells move from the primary tumor to distant tissues - it is metastasis of the primary tumor that kills most cancer patients. One of the least studied routes of metastasis is…

The early reviews of the iPhone on Verizon are that it's much better if you use the iPhone as a phone.    Data may be something else.    Solution: Wait for the iPhone 5 unless you…