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I was intrigued by Joe’s recent post and the hubbub of comments that ensued, so I decided to weigh in on a tangent to the issues Joe and a number of commenters raised. The issue [...]

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Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could [...]

I am preparing the slides for the PPC08 conference, which will be held in Albuquerque next week, and I thought I would post here two slides that show how present Tevatron data is [...]

Some folks are much better writers than I am. Most folks are better drivers. And nearly everyone is a better singer. Naturally, all those folks are elitist bastards — so far [...]

I’ve been thinking about math a lot recently. Learning it has become a bit of an obsession.

I’ve come to believe that there is a fundamental mistake in the way society [...]

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The Chaitén volcano is maintaining its eruptive activity unabated.

Yesterday, the Oficina Nacional de Emergencia (ONEMI) reported that military [...]

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It isn’t every day we get a whole new genus. In this week’s Zootaxa, Seiki Yamane, Tuan Vet Bui, and Katsuyuki Eguchi report [...]

David Secko writes: “Today, it is thought that one third of the proteins present in a typical mammalian cell are covalently bound to phosphate (i.e. they are phosphorylated at one [...]

By Xinfei, Epoch Times staff, May 14, 2008-

The same night of Sichuan’s May 12 earthquake, Chinese scientist Li Shihui revealed on his blog that Chinese seismologist Geng [...]

Hailed as one of the possible solutions to the fossil fuel emission problem, clean coal is coal whose sulfur dioxide is removed and whose carbon dioxide can be recovered easily. [...]