Five hundred smiling people from around the world gathered today in the world's theme park capital to set the Guinness World Record for the biggest smiley face. Coinciding with and celebrating today'…

My main computer died, and I'm on my backup system.  While I can still work, it feels like I've shifted from my starship bridge to the tiny emergency control room, while still on full battle…

I occasionally get questions about usage of Science 2.0 that go beyond the FAQ so I decided I would write up a short article on using the site for non-beginners.   The FAQ covers the basics -…

It is unfortunate that whenever I have personal stuff to post as a blog here I have nothing else to choose as a tag than the uninformative "random thoughts"... I wish the posting interface in our…

This article prompted me to consider the question of whether there were any boundaries regarding the silliness that could be presented as science.  The article entitled 'Vampire Books Like "…

In science, we first verify our procedures and the process by which we got our results.  Then we validate it against reality.  For example, I wrote a code that simulated galaxies colliding…

Cyberstalking as a way of trying to bully someone into giving them what they want on line.  A certain website was set up just to slander me by The  Organisation Intersex International…

I confess I have never been to Maui or any other part of Hawaii.   Part of that is my age - I am still young enough to do fun stuff and so I have had run-ins with Turkish police, the Bulgarian…

” The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your decisions, and the quality of your decisions is determined by the quality of your thinking.” Schick and Vaughn, How to Think About…

Yesterday afternoon a flutter of Monarch Butterflies landed in the courtyard garden at the end of our block for a wondrous "asteral" visit. The winds were shifting and gusting and thunderheads were…