Science Ink and the Science Tattoo Emporium In her Twitter stream, the always-interesting Mary Roach alerts me to what looks like an amazing book of science...
Radiation and Misinformation With the deputy head of Japan’s nuclear agency calling Fukushima a “very huge disaster,” it’s fairly obvious that the...
The Goth Moths One of the most overwrought moments in Thomas Harris’s overwrought 1999 novel Hannibal is when the faceless (literally, as...
Thailand Archaeology Team’s DIY Paraglider Queensland, Australia’s James Cook University has an interesting article up about this DIY unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hand-developed by...
Cool Pics of Abandoned Soviet Particle Accelerator The mysterious folks at EnglishRussia.com have an incredible photo tour up of the Soviet-era accelerator under the Russian town...
MOAR PLS: Kundalini and the Subatomic Pyrotron Theory There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, more awesome than a flame war on paranormal topics. Do you see...
NASA Evidence: Thunderstorms Shoot Antimatter Into Space NASA’s space-based Fermi Gama Ray Telescope has provided evidence that thunderstorms on Earth generate antimatter streams. The team at...
British Medical Journal: Vaccine-Autism Link Was Fraud A 1998 study of 12 patients in Lancet claimed to show a link between autism and childhood vaccines. The...
Early Tools on Crete Push Back Sea Travel Origins The recent discovery of early tools on the island of Crete is causing scientists to revise their view not...
New Year’s Eve: Blackbirds Fall From the Sky Just Before Midnight A few minutes before midnight on New Year’s Eve, thousands of blackbirds fell dead from the sky in Arkansas....