The Wall Street Journal took the Marc Hauser controversy (barely noticed here, because it's evolutionary psychology, which is sort of apodictically evident as bad science so we didn't react to it)…

Here are a couple wonderful instances of people accidentally or intentionally driving nails deep into their gray matter. Can't get enough nails in the brain? Don't worry—I'll post another couple…

TORONTO, August 28, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, as expected, Microsoft filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, seeking a review of the i4i v Microsoft patent infringement case by the Supreme Court…

With Phil Plait getting his own TV show this weekend, look for new homages ... but why would anyone want to be bad?  I am not sure, though when you make something popular people will copy it,…

A robotic hand attached to a small helicopter can successfully and autonomously grip objects while the helicopter is hovering(link to video there too) ... Article: Paul E.I. Pounds and Aaron M.…

Britons may be famous for their lack of fashion sense but they may have inherited one of their biggest sartorial crimes, wearing socks with sandals, from Italians.

If you are sad and anxious go to a lake and watch the water coming to shore and going back to lake again in flutters. Water is coming to the shore in the hope that shore will keep it with itself.…

If you ask a non doctor what are the remedies of hypertension and blood pressure its like asking solutions from a student of maths or physics. However great contributions have been made from people…

The Standard Model of particle physics has been under attack since its original formulation, in 1967, and yet it has so far resisted every assault; in so doing it has become one of the most…

We like to make fun of pseudoscience, mostly because it is hypocritical.   It simultaneously says real science is insular and close-minded and BIG and therefore resistant to awesome new ideas,…