Like about four years ago, the name of Grigoriy Yakovlevich (Grisha) Perelman is again in the mass-media headlines all around the world. Grisha is a prominent mathematician, who was able to solve one…

It's that time of year again... Geek Pop 2010! What is Geek Pop, you may ask? From the website: "Geek Pop is a free online music festival featuring artists inspired by science. Every year, we bring…

BIL is a fringe unconference that grew out of people trying to gatecrash TED conferences. BIL UK 2010 is scheduled to be held at Oxford on the weekend after TED, thereby giving some people the…

ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Starting in late 2009/2010, the ATLAS detector will search for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of…

One of the fundamental assumptions underlying the human quest for knowledge is that we can somehow logically answer questions we have about anything. This is a very pragmatic assumption and has…

One thing that scientists and politicians have in common is the need to beg: the former beg for funds while the latter beg for votes. Britain will soon have an election so this is the time for the…

A Quest for Truth Must science be focused on seeking the truth in everything?I mean, pretty much anything worth reading about science, is an initial theory, with perhaps a few pointers as to the…

The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center will welcome His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to its public grand-opening celebration Saturday-…

Update: for those who aren't familiar with creationist propaganda, some of them like to blame all of the evils of the world upon Darwin. These include racism, fascism, and communism/Stalinism. All…

I've read 3 Bibles cover to cover, and, I am a science addict.I hear often about Creation verses Evolution, Religions seeking to disprove Evolution, and Evolution seeming to represent disproving…