When it comes to pet positions, the more fundamentalist leftwing bloggers in science love to note how anti-science Republicans are, despite Pres. Bush doubling the NIH budget and increasing the NASA…

Usually, I don't think it is worth pointing out everything the media gets wrong.  I don't think it is particularly constructive concentrating on what's wrong, better to simply try and write well…

An escaped convict from an Arizona prison intended to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him.   It didn't work, police caught him and took him back to jail.  …

Yes, the humanities get a free pass today because California State University, Northridge math professor Tihomir Petrov was arrested for peeing on another professor's door.   So math professors…

In the 'gay sex is bad unless it's women' cultural milieu, a survey by a University of Texas at Austin psychologist determined that men are more than twice as likely to continue dating a girlfriend…

Measuring 'intelligence' is a much art as science.   Even using the word intelligence sends people down a philosophical rabbit hole, disagreeing about what the word means. So can there be a '…

If wearing 3-D glasses makes you feel like we haven't progressed much since the 1950s, you are not alone.   Fortunately, MIT is in the 1970s - namely, the movie "Star Wars" from 1977, using a…

Eclipta grows abundantly in the tropics and is used with much success in Ayurvedic medicine. In India the juice of the leaves is used in the treatment of liver cirrhosis, hepatitis and infective…

NEW DELHI, January 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- While internet has shrunken the world, its by-product Digital Commerce has completely changed the business landscape. Several experts from the internet and…

In the quarterly lamentation about the need for science outreach in the U.S., what often gets lost is that not everyone will be good at science.   Lack of science knowledge is regarded as some…