About six weeks ago I wrote the following post on Rapid Prompting Method (edited for this current piece); it garnered a lot of attention from avid parent supporters and from the inventor of the…

Another instance of a misleading passage in Complexity: A Guided Tour: Another example where Evo-Devo is challenging long-held views about evolution concerns the notion of convergent evolution. In my…

Once upon a time, during my medical carrier, a beloved teacher – that passed away almost two decades ago - told me that if well to know is important, it is more importantto bring out that knowing…

Is the Sun going to enter a million-degree galactic cloud of interstellar gas? A group of scientists are suggesting that the Ribbon of enhanced emissions of Energetic Neutral Atoms(ENA) discovered…

I read with pleasure today a proceedings writeup of the Moriond 2010 talk given by S. Andringa on behalf of the Pierre Auger Observatory. It is too bad that I did not visit La Thuile this year: the…

Since the rediscovery of the cancer stem cell hypothesis by Peter Dirks at the University of Toronto, researchers often use these cancer stem cells (or cancer initiating cells) as the scapegoat to…

'Hollywoood's job is not to educate but to entertain and inspire', but it turns out they find science inspirational.  In the Going Hollywood podcast, you can listen (or read) about just how…

PHOENIX and TEMPE, Arizona, May 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Guided by the principle that today's cities are laboratories and their leaders are researchers in the new science of urban sustainability,…

A quote from an extremely mediocre book, Complexity: A Guided Tour. Like most people coming out of the 'complexity sciences', the author has a mediocre grasp of molecular biology, both current…

The International Institute for Species Exploration  has announced their top 10 new species described in 2009. Making the cut are a minnow with fangs, golden orb spider and carnivorous sponge.…