On my first day at the Erice School of Science Journalism this past week I attended a lecture by Alessio Cimarelli, who discussed "When Data Journalism meets Science: a "Hackathon"". The speaker (who…

How effective has the war on science by Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists and their progressive donor base been? Very effective. Effective enough that even when reading about the Irish…

Americans lead the world in adult science literacy, it has nearly tripled since 1988. What other trend occurred since 1988? A lot fewer people read newspapers. If people are smarter about…

Quebecers are particularly hostile toward the development of natural gas, but this aversion is driven less by 'not in my backyard' (NIMBY) attitudes than 'not in anyone's backyard (NIABY), according…

Illegal immigrants from Mexico who move to the United States often face barriers like poorly paying jobs, crowded housing and family separation. Such obstacles, and the migration process itself, may…

Scientist often end up using two computers, one for scientific work, another for everything else.  Thanks to really practical and affordable virtualization that is no longer necessary.  The…

Scientist often need one computer for research and another for collaboration and communication.  With the Hardware and software available now we can finally do everything on one computer system…

Why do so many criminals convicted of misdemeanors then get involved in violent crime? It turns out that in many cases it's because they weren't misdemeanors at all, they were felony crimes that were…

Advocates for open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens often claim that they are doing jobs legal residents won't. That isn't really true, they just do some jobs for less, because their illegal…

Can you imagine how difficult it is to juggle peer review for 10,000 published studies per year? That's 40 every single working day, without the time it took to look at the ones that got rejected. It…