George Clooney used to copy my haircuts. People who knew me in the 1990s always marveled at my classic, parted-on-the-side, immaculately coiffed style. It was retro, just like the term "marvelous' is…

Hot on the heels of the incident I wrote about in Even Seattle Yogis Can't Live On Sunshine And Water, GreenMedInfo mystical guru Sayer Ji is promoting this light business again, but calling it…

http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2014/06/data-check-u-s-producing-mo... So when President Obama was Senator Obama and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress in 2007, they decided to replace…

Charles Hard Townes (AP Photo) Charles Townes has a lot going for him; he just saw his 99th birthday and 500 people showed up to cheer for him. He has a Nobel prize and a younger wife - Frances…

Mission Accomplished. Now it's time to go back home. After two space shuttle missions and almost two decades, astronaut Mike Massimino has left NASA for Columbia University in New York. During the…

In 2015, damage after heart attacks will become a thing of the past. In the UK alone, over 100,000 people die from heart attacks each year, but in many cases people who are successfully treated still…

"Going Deep" With David Rees premieres tonight on National Geographic Channel and if you have little time to decide whether or not to watch it, you are in luck because I can be brief - it's a good…

How deep is science writing these days? Pretty darn deep. Way back when Science 2.0 started there were not a lot of great science writers. There were well-known ones, but not great ones. Journalism…

ZOOLOGISTS ANNOUNCED THE discovery of a tiny, super-cute new primate which can kill a human by licking its elbow. I am not making this up.  The new species of loris found in the Philippines has…

http://www.sciencecodex.com/a_physicians_guide_for_antivaccine_parents-9... I get a few emails each day from people who don't want to leave a comment on an article, they instead think I am going to…