FREDERICIA, Denmark, February 28, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Mitsui Engineering Shipbuilding (MES), one of Japan's leading heavy industries, and Inbicon, the Danish pioneer of cellulosic ethanol…

Let me also say what I don't mean by final, underlying, laws of physics. I don't mean that other branches of physics are in danger of being replaced by some ultimate version of elementary particle…

This is an authorized English translation of the paper by an outstandingRussian economist Mikhail Gennadievich Delyagin, as appeared in theRussian-speaking Internet on 19.03.2009 under the following…

Cannot resist posting the following paperclip, grabbed from a news site this afternoon (it's a Sunday, a critical detail you should not overlook; and this is an Italian newspaper, as should be…

Green jobs—great. But gray jobs, maybe an even better bet. If there is a single graphic that everyone concerned with the nation’s future should have tattooed on their eyeballs, my vote goes to this…

In light of some comments below, and what appears to be an inability to follow a simple link, I accept it is time to rewrite this blog post as one seamless narrative. Thanks to those comments that…

This American Life from Chicago Public Radio has an interesting story about the history of psychiatry with regards to homosexuality: why homosexuality used to be considered a mental illness, and why…

IPCC Seeks Independent Review Committee For 5th Report The IPCC has started work on the preparation of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5).  They are currently looking for experts who can act as…

CALGARY, Canada, February 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- BNK Petroleum Inc. (the Company or BNK)/ is pleased to announce a 182% increase of its Tishomingo shale gas field reported proved and probable…

Why did the Babylonians and the Greeks approach astronomy so differently? In my last post I quoted Toulmin and Goodfield from their history of dynamics and astronomy, The Fabric of the Heavens, where…