A friend of mine spammed me today with a video about how evil the big corporations Fox and Monsanto are because they’re lying to the public about the dangers of recombined bovine growth hormone. My characteristically verbose response: My view… Continue Reading
I’m so often frustrated in my attempts to appreciate the skies. Clouds happen at inopportune times; I can’t get out of the city during the right time to see something. So tonight I was very pleased that the thunderstorm that… Continue Reading
His name is Tiktaalik Roseae and he’s a transitional form of life between a fish and an amphibian. The absent of transitional forms of life is a common method used by deniers of evolution to “prove” that evolution could not… Continue Reading
A joint study by the Stanford Business School and Cal-Tech reveals that consumers tasting wine respond with pleasure to it. No surprise there! But both schools brought something from their respective areas of expertise and the results of the study… Continue Reading
These people have, just in this last year. And it’s most interesting to read about what they’ve changed their minds about, and why. It’s heavy on the psychology and neuroscience, but then again, learning about how we learn is itself… Continue Reading
I’m as happy as anyone that scientists have found a way to create human stem cells from adult skin, and that now research on stem cells can progress without having to destroy embryos. But that doesn’t mean that the past… Continue Reading
As longtime readers of the blog know, I am consistently annoyed at attempts to teach creationism (the idea that the universe, or life, was created by a supernatural entity, such as God) in public school science classes. I don’t have… Continue Reading
I find Vice President Al Gore’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, for his work publicizing global warming and related environmental problems, to not sit well with me. I’m not alone in this. I have two problems with the award.… Continue Reading
I’ve thought, since at least my college years, that we need more nuclear power plants in this country. Reading this week’s New York Times Freakonomics column – which cleverly blames Jane Fonda for global warming – only reinforces that belief.… Continue Reading
A mysterious object fell in rural Peru; many think it’s a meteor and a crew is on its way to verify that. And it seems to be making people quite sick. This is the sort of thing you read about… Continue Reading