Rumex Hymenosepalus - The Plant That Waters Itself

Rumex Hymenosepalus - The Plant That Waters Itself

University of Haifa-Oranim researchers have managed to make out the “self-irrigating” mechanism of Rumex hymenosepalus, the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water…
Murder in the Courtroom

Murder in the Courtroom

I was reading about recent excavations at Amheida, a buried city in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis, where it is beginning to appear that agricultural development was taking place before the settlement of the…
Economic Theory - Multinational Business

Economic Theory - Multinational Business

This topic requires many considerations that may be more political than economic, but to try and retain focus, the point is primarily to examine how economic principles (like supply and demand) are…
Free Will and Determinism

Free Will and Determinism

In another post the general discussion regarding free will seemed to teeter on the edge of a definition that recognized the significant role that our genes and indoctrination played, while allowing…
Scientific Misconduct And The Nature Of Science

Scientific Misconduct And The Nature Of Science

I just finished reading an interesting book review by physicist Martin Blume in a recent issue of Nature. Blume was reviewing Eugenie Samuel Reich’s provocative book “Plastic Fantastic: How the…