Science & Society

What is Language? We are tool-using social animals. The most powerful tool known is the one we use to build every other tool: language- spoken or written. But tools can be used with little or no skill to turn out mundane artifacts and garbage. By honing ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 8 2009 - 4:09am

"Angels & Demons"- No Laughing Antimatter

What happens when a guy married to an art historian who dislikes religion writes a book using science? "Angels&Demons", that's what. It's the book Dan Brown wrote that made even less sense than "The DaVinci Code", beca ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 17 2009 - 1:18pm

Twins: One Mom, Two Dads- Uh oh, Someone Has Some S'plainin' To Do

The birth of twins is a genetic oddity in itself- only happening in about one out of every 90 births. But adding a large twist of unexpected to an already unlikely event- this week it was announced that a mother in Dallas, Texas gave birth to a set of tw ...

Blog Post - Mad Scientist - May 21 2009 - 6:39pm

Harry Benjamin Syndrome Revealed: The naked bigotry of some transwomen against others.

Harry Benjamin Syndrome, at first a uncontroversial and innocuous idea that transsexual brains are different from other brains, has morphed into a platform for some to denigrate others under a cloak of true pseudoscience proposed by laypeople and supporte ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 20 2009 - 4:25pm

Major Histocompatibility Complexes- A Genetic Clue To Why Opposites Attract In Human Mate Selection

Professor Maria da Graça Bicalho, head of the Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Laboratory at the University of Parana, Brazil, told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics that people with diverse major histocompatibility compl ...

Article - News Staff - May 24 2009 - 7:55pm

Genetic Fitness- Biological Bias, Not Societal, Explains Promiscuous Men And Chaste Women

In general, science is like an episode of "LOST"; one question gets answered but that answer raises two more questions. The discovery of DNA and genes has answered many questions about who we are and why we are, but to what degree remains a myste ...

Article - Erin Richards - May 26 2009 - 2:27pm

The great thing about science is the uncertainty

Brian Greene on science as the ultimate adventure: Science is about immersing ourselves in piercing uncertainty while struggling with the deepest of mysteries. It is the ultimate adventure. Against staggering odds, a species that has walked upright for onl ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 26 2009 - 10:26pm

Army Announces 60 Percent Of U.S. Chemical Weapons Destroyed

U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) officials have announced the destruction of 60 percent of the U.S. declared stockpile under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). This milestone was achieved Saturday, April 25. CMA reached the 50 percent mileston ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2009 - 11:58pm

Particle Physics- Not Just For Black Holes And Blowing Up The Vatican Any More

If you watched "Angels&Demons" recently, you may have thought particle physics was just about scary science that could do real harm on the chance it may do future good. Not so, though most people don't realize the impact particle physi ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2009 - 9:43am

Creationism, Andrew Jackson, And The Battle Of New Orleans

"Somebody's got to stand up to experts," cried the creationist head of the Texas State Board of Education, Don McLeroy. McLeroy's lament is nothing new in American culture- we love to lionize the artless hero who conquers the world thr ...

Article - Michael White - May 28 2009 - 2:12pm