Japan's Nuclear Emergency - The Straight Goods - Update The latest reports coming from Japan indicate that the current nuclear emergency is not as great as some people had feared it might be. Despite…

The online disability rights and autism advocacy movements intersect, with appeals from the autism advocacy movement appealing to the larger disability rights movement. Recently, a new petition…

If you want clicks, then now is the time to write about earthquakes and nuclear disasters. That is why Science 2.0 has now an article telling us how great it is that the quake hit Japan, because…

Why We Should Ban Food Ban food?Which food?All of it, probably. Why we should ban food Oh yes, and medicines. They're just too darn dangerous to produce, that's why.  Quite apart from the risks…

Update: For the latest bulletins, please see my new article:Japan's Nuclear Emergency - The Straight Goods - Update original post begins here:Japan's Nuclear Emergency - The Straight Goods There is…

Japan Quake - Media Up To Mischief Edit - this blog entry is now out of date.  The complaint about 100 versus 1000 is now withdrawn.Please see Japan's Nuclear Emergency - The Straight Goods -…

Over many years, as a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, I have regularly received their magazine, formerly Chemistry in Britain, now Chemistry World.  This often contains…

In case you were living under the science equivalent of a rock, the Journal of Cosmology published a study by a NASA researcher stating, essentially, that fossilized bacteria had been found on Earth…

Infinite Growth And The Crisis Cocktail - a guest article Infinite growth is not possible in any real-world context, yet many otherwise rational people behave - economically speaking - as if they…

Despite what you may guess by mass media coverage, the priorities of Americans are not global warming or wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but are instead just what they were in 1990; health care and a…