It seems that every time I open the newspaper there is something awful happening in the world, pollution being the least of our worries. But can the world stand us? Can we continue to break…

Yesterday morning I peeked., just a small peek, at Age of Autism, and saw this: And I was intrigued. You know, that whole "admitting to total bias bit" had me cracking up. See, Age of Autism…

British photographer Graham Ekins snapped one of the rare photos of squid in flight: "Capturing the flying squid is one of the highlights of my photography career," he says. I can imagine it would…

You can read this story two different ways. Enjoy science and beer, the combination meant to be together. Or Unpaid scientists give lectures at pubs, and don't even get free beer. Science pubs?. Sign…

"Call it entropy [..] nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.” -- Von Neumann to Shannon. Have a look at below picture. You see a binary pattern.…

Cognitive enhancement is not about future generations playing video games via neural implants and thought interfaces. Presently, it is about a large fraction of the worlds scientist shortening their…

Boingboing science editor Maggie Koerth-Baker says everyone loves cephalopods because they are AWESOME. I agree 100%.

Fantasy baseball as fans understand it today began in the 1980s but actual fantasy baseball, beyond kids trading baseball cards, began 50 years ago.   Hal Rickman, an accountant in New York City…

DAVOS, Switzerland, January 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that the United Kingdom would double its current contribution to polio eradication. Mr Cameron…

David Weisman separates himself from the too-prevalent Psychology Today quackfest by noting that the thing we take as our unified mind doesn't really exist, "it is easily fractured into separate…