Fake Banner
Physician Burnout Is Common - And Informal Rationing Is One Big Cause

If the government promises every home a great gardener, most people recognize they won't get a...

Cancel Culture Prevents The Best Researchers From Engaging With The Food Industry

After Chris Wild took over the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a UN-funded...

Vermont Should Stop Showing Leadership In Overruling Scientists On Farming

Despite Vermont's Agricultural  Innovation Board (AIB), created to inform regulatory recommendations...

Evolutionary Psychology: Your Parents Income During Pregnancy Made You Gay

Evolutionary psychology, the discipline that claimed we're being manipulated by flowers and evolved...

User picture.
picture for picture for Hontas Farmerpicture for Tommaso Dorigopicture for Fred Phillipspicture for Jim Myrespicture for Heidi Henderson
Hank CampbellRSS Feed of this column.

I founded Science 2.0® in 2006 and since then it has become the world's largest independent science communications site, with over 300,000,000 direct readers and reach approaching one billion. Read More »

 Blogroll
Russia's military of the future looks like the USSR one of the past

Russia's military of the future looks like the USSR one of the past

Oct 12 2010 | comment(s)

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and, with it, Soviet communism, one of the great joys for this former US Army Signal Corps officer was getting to talk with a former East German officer who came to work for our company a few years later.
SETI Participant Claims He Found A Signal From Near Gliese 581 Already

SETI Participant Claims He Found A Signal From Near Gliese 581 Already

Oct 11 2010 | comment(s)

Astronomers are certainly not strangers to manipulating public relations through mass media - they write reasonable papers and then encourage the press to go nuts with it.   Witness the recent arXiv paper by Vogt, Butler, et al on Gliese 581g, should it even exist, which reads
The best typo you will read today

The best typo you will read today

Oct 11 2010 | comment(s)

An article at TBD.com by Amanda Hess is about HIV-positive black gay men.  Okay, so far so good.   But it had an important typo, namely a key letter left out of a word, and the correction at the top now reads:

one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive

If you can't read it ...
Baseball, Vision And Alcohol: Analyzing The Zito Curve

Baseball, Vision And Alcohol: Analyzing The Zito Curve

Oct 10 2010 | comment(s)

This article has basically nothing to do with baseball or Barry Zito's curveball so you can stop reading if that is your interest - or check out  

The Science Of Baseball: What Is The Fastest A Pitcher Can Throw?

The Science Of Baseball: What Is The Farthest Home Run (And Did Mickey Mantle Hit It)?

Does A Curveball In Baseball Really Break?
Welcome to 42

Welcome to 42

Oct 10 2010 | comment(s)

Welcome to October 10th, 2010, 10/10/10, unless you are in Europe, where they will write it 10/10/10 just to be different.  If you are a fan of binary counting, 101010 translated to decimal is...42.   If you are a fan of Douglas Adams, you know that the "answer to life, the universe, and everything" arrived at by the Deep Thought supercomputer was "42" ... after 7+ million years of analysis(1).
Exobiology and Mars - extensive carbonate minerals found

Exobiology and Mars - extensive carbonate minerals found

Oct 10 2010 | comment(s)

A new report in Nature Geoscience says there may be large deposits of carbonate sedimentary rocks a few miles beneath the surface of Mars.

If substantial carbonate minerals exist it might indicate a past surface environment with carbon dioxide, in contrast to its current acidic (and inhospitable) state.  

Researchers Joseph Michalski and Paul B. Niles found evidence for carbonate bedrock deep under the Martian crust and believe the ancient sediments were linked to a volcanic eruption by the Syrtis Major volcano.