My talk on evolutionary imagery at the Centre For Inquiry. Here is a video posted by the Centre For Inquiry Canada of a talk I gave in Toronto a few months ago. Larry Moran was my gracious host, and…

Fear blinds us, immobilizes us, and makes fools of us. Scary stories abound on the internet, through emails, and in conversations, and dangers lurk in the dusty corners waiting to pounce on us and…

Sitting in a balcony facing a forest in the apartment of our daughter I wonder where the botanists have gone. In our times it was common site to see lots of botanists tracking the woods and…

If you look at the Pines sitting in your balcony you will wonder why they growth taller and taller and their apex moves towards the sky in straight line. You can see apical dominance. What provides…

At Salon, Matt Zoller Seitz writes on fan movie art While a lot of fan art is just a time-killing diversion, some of it is valuable because it situates P.R. material within a larger conversation…

This guy is really talented.    As Anita Ashbaugh wrote, "As I was watching this I was thinking "how cool" because it's a skeleton. If the marionette had been a clown, for instance, I'd…

When I was in my late teens, my father (a chemical engineer) took an interest in quantum mechanics.  Two words from his conversation at that time stuck in my mind, namely Hamiltonian and…

A group of former Scienceblogs.com folks have created Scientificblogging.org - an aggregator for science blogs. Science.alltop.com by the legendary Guy Kawasaki did such a good job at this it caused…

Palace of winds or Hawamahal of Jaipur is one the landmark or monuments. If you climb up the monument you can see the Nahargarh fort or Tiger fort once den or tiger is now a barren hills . Hope some…

Janter Manter of Jaipur is now world heritage site but what about hills of Jaipur. Most of plants are cut and taken away as headloads by women for fuel. Termite attack is destroying large number of…