Stephen Meyer, Signature in a Cell, Part Two.  The central argument of Stephen Meyer’s book, Signature in a Cell, is that coded instruction sets in DNA, just like computer code, require…

A Science Of Human Language - Part #10 In this part of the series, commenced here, I give some concrete examples from various languages of how words can cue the category from which other words were,…

Tangential Science: it's not necessarily science, but it's still funny. 1. The Japanese have responded to the persistent outrage of Greenpeace over their whaling efforts by seeking to enrage the anti…

This is not much of a surprise: In six out of ten countries including Argentina (57%), China (72%), Great Britain (62%), India (77%), Mexico (65%) and Spain (61%), the majority of people who had…

Although possessing an undeniable bias against consciousness and mood altering drugs, courtesy of the 1960s and 1970s, I was curious to see what progress had been made utilizing these same substances…

I'm out of town today, so I'm doing a break from my usual work.  Instead, I thought I'd share these tales of geek love.  First up is a nice fluff piece by Ashley Nelson, 4 Reasons Why Women…

Colonial Williamsburg is basically a theme park about colonial days in America, the time in the 18th century before and around the establishment of the United States. It can be somewhat kitschy[1],…

TEL AVIV and BERLIN, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- German-Israeli cooperation brings together two complementary approaches to the advancement of commercialization of tomorrow's technologies. Germany…

ZÜRICH, July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Solianis recently signed an investment agreement with a Swiss foundation which invests its assets in Swiss companies. According to the agreement, this foundation…

House of StrawUse six straws to create the classic house shape (a rectangular body with two straws forming the roof, all laying flat on the table). Bet that you can make four equal triangles by…