A primitive, non-photosynthesizing microbe, Methanospirillum hungatei, which is thought to have existed since before the development of photosynthesis, possess genes similar to those that play a role…

Though scant progress has been made in treating or understanding Alzheimer's disease in the last 100 years, one thing is known; there are declines in glucose levels in the hippocampus early on. What…

Mitochondrial dysfunction, which leads to rare genetic disorders in children, some forms of heart disease, and most likely some cases of Parkinson’s disease, is bewildering in the variety and…

Yes of course it is damn scary when once again, at a time as supposedly new Hitlers are arising, it is the media again who come into focus as a social problem. Or is it that the Hitlers arise as a…

Today I have a decision problem for you. Alice offers Bob participation in a simple coin toss game. It's called triple or bust. Alice start the game by writing an IOU to Bob for an amount of $ 1…

Today I have a decision problem for you. Alice offers Bob participation in a simple coin toss game. It's called triple or bust. Alice start the game by writing an IOU to Bob for an amount of $ 1…

They say two people can’t see the same mirage. I wonder who the hell started saying that?  Last fall, in the article, Polls Are Not Rigged, But They Also Aren't 'Scientific', prolific science…

Last December I took on a new challenge.  I was asked to speak to a large Canadian audience of agricultural producers about climate change.  ‘Bout time I stepped into a controversial area.…

Today is the first day of the Chinese Year of the Rooster, 2017. I am addressing this in particular to North American friends, since yesterday evening on TV we saw Michael Portillo on one of his…

Today I took delivery of my copy of Tony Zee’s third contribution to the Princeton University Press In a Nutshell series: “Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists”. With this book Tony…