Dear gentle readers and the lovely and talented Scientific Blogging/Science 2.0 community, You may have noticed that I have not been around much lately, and I felt I should let everyone know what has…

Crying is a waste of perfectly good water. So why we do it? I have no idea, so I would like to hear your ideas. To get the ball rolling, here are eight hypotheses, each surely inadequate and probably…

Scienceblogs.com stalwart Bora Zivkovic has bid farewell to that site, the latest in a series of defections they hyper-dramatize as a 'diaspora' due to recent events, but he says it isn't about…

University of Arizona (UA) scientists have announced their success in genetically altering mosquitos to be immune to the single-celled parasite that causes malaria. Professor of entomology Michaiel…

Making the rounds today is a utility written by Coding Robots that analyzes your prose and then matches it with famous (note: not necessarily someone you like) authors. Among the blogosphere outside…

"Eighty percent of success is showing up" W.Allen

The ChatterBox Index Index to articles published in the ChatterBox. The ArcticGlaciersThe AntarcticArticles about iceArctic Ice May 2010Arctic Ice May 2010 - UpdateArctic Ice June 2010 Arctic Ice…

'Show her your love is as bag as the whole solar system' sounds like a schlocky sales pitch, right?  Well, it is but the Laura Cesari, a.k.a. Chain of Being, Solar System Necklace is just too…

This is a post that has nothing to do with physics or other sciences, for once. I just report here my thoughts as a father upon allowing my 11-years-old son to go spend a day to the beach alone with…

Though I have been gardening less and getting back to freelance writing, my wondering about invasive species has been growing like a weeds, like Creeping Camanula perhaps. Creeping Campanula (a.k.a.…