As a mouse vet, my job is to suggest refinements to make cancer studies as easy as possible on the mice. Cancer researchers grow tumor cells for study. They buy them from a catalog, or they get…

Today's scapegoat for my rant about the place of cephalopods in society is, as I predicted, Squidward Quincy Tentacles, of Spongebob Squarepants fame: What IS that? Six appendages, a misplaced mouth…

Energy is fungible and nothing is certain but death and taxes. All energy is like all other energy and interchangeable through one means or another.  But, all energy is not created…

It's hard to make a good cartoon cephalopod, I guess. Yesterday I was disappointed about the Squidbillies. Tomorrow I may despair of Spongebob's pal Squidward. Today, I sigh over Nemo's little…

After the successful introduction of myspace, facebook, twitter and however many other social networking sites that now exist, researchers at London's Natural History Museum have created a social…

Fascinating things can be learned from Google Search's drop-down menu. For example, if you type "squid", the suggested search items, in order, are: squidbilliessquidoosquidbillies full episodessquid…

I have to delay the Sunday Science Book Club and my discussion of Voyage of the Beagle until next week. In the mean time, I'm initiating the first Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Corner. Over the next few…

In July 1999, Medicare began increasing coverage for people needing a simultaneous kidney/pancreas transplant in hopes of addressing racial and economic disparities that existed. But increased…

Interesting article in Tuesday’s New York Times. Apparently, the Iraqi security forces have taken to using divining rods to search for explosives, against the advice of U.S. trainers and advisors.…

Look what's happening in Britain!  I have just been reading a newspaper article:  Climate change belief given same legal status as religion  which starts: An executive has won the…