I dunno exactly what this means…
…(and I wonder if anyone else does, either). But it seems potentially important, not to mention “beautiful in its simplicity.”
Continue reading →Category Archives: Science
PSA test for prostate cancer screening: should he or shouldn’t he?
Even his doctor doesn’t know for sure. In some ways the news that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has stopped recommending routine prostate cancer screening through the mechanism of the PSA blood test mirrors the same group’s finding in … Continue reading →
Twins under the skin
James and Daniel Kelly are fraternal twins, two handsome young men who live in England. Unlike identical twins, fraternal twins are genetically no more similar than any two siblings of the same parents; they just happen to be the result … Continue reading →
Obama, Perry, science, and the Texas wildfires
I guess (sniffle; sigh) neither Rick Perry nor Barack Obama read neo-neocon at PJ, although Obama may be a secret Thomas Friedman fan. Here’s an excerpt from my PJ article of 9/18 [emphasis mine]: Thomas Friedman of the New York … Continue reading →
Neutrinos: faster than light?
Scientists at CERN are astounded to report that they have recorded neutrinos that travel faster than the speed of light, long thought to be a constant that defined the upper limits possible for speed in the universe: “We have high … Continue reading →
Gamers are good for something, after all
Very good indeed. The human mind is still pretty ingenious.
Continue reading →Rick Perry, Galileo, and the AGW true believers
I’ve got an article at PJ about all of the above.
Continue reading →Sperm donors may win biological sweepstakes
For all of humankind’s history, men have been rivals for the favors of women, and a huge part of that competition (at least in the biological sense) has been to foster the birth and survival of their own offspring. If … Continue reading →
Ann Coulter on the “gaps” in evolution
Ann Coulter is never one to shy away from stating the controversial, and this article of hers is no exception. She points out that, far from being a perfect theory, evolution does indeed have “gaps,” just as Rick Perry said … Continue reading →
The Obama adminstration versus the environmental scientist???
I can’t make a whole lot of sense of what’s happening here. But I know it sounds potentially interesting. Very: A federal wildlife biologist whose observation in 2004 of presumably drowned polar bears in the Arctic helped to galvanize the … Continue reading →
Humans on the planet
Erle C. Ellis, associate professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland, writes that we’re fully in the Anthropocene, a proposed term to describe an era in which the environment has been heavily influenced by humankind: Earth’s … Continue reading →
So, if scientists couldn’t even foresee…
…the effects of the oil spill on the Gulf, how are they going to figure out what’s going on with climate change? [ADDENDUM: Actually, there were a few lonely voices saying fairly early on that the spill would naturally repair … Continue reading →