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"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure sci...

It's a very familiar scenario to those of us who haven't given up on greasy, spectacularly unhealthy fast foods: You step up to t...

New Science Kick stuff at Cafe Press . One that sums up the philosophy behind this blog... As much as I try to take an even-handed app...

Second Life avatar that is definitely not Dr. Steven Chu There are idiots in this world who are actually more impressed by a Super Bowl...

Please consider, for a moment, the 1999 Twentieth Century Fox movie "Fight Club." You know that movie, don't you? Edward No...

I kept hearing conservatives certain people complain about the Federal Reserve for "printing money" and I began to wonder exactly...

Photo: From Colby Keller's Big Shoe Diaries blog. Submitted as part of the Fearless photo project . If you want to know what the t...

A little while ago, I noticed a book cover that had a major problem. The book was the UK edition of Dr. Chad Orzel's How to Teach Qua...

A few weeks ago, I picked up a free copy of what has to be one of the world's geekiest newsletters: Fields Notes , a magazine-style p...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence could use a little help. Only checks drawn on Earth-based banks will be accepted. http://ww...

Some science demonstrations are such classics that it's hard to improve upon them. Which is why it's unfortunate that not every high...

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! It is UNACCEPTABLE to let an entire month pass without a blog post!! That will not happe...

You know how hilarity immediately ensues when, after enjoying a Chinese take-out meal, you crack open the fortune cookies, read the fortune ...

Just some bits of business, links an' stuff... But first, a gratuitous, scary-looking equation concerning the conductivity of graphene...

A catch-all, end-of-the-year megapost to clear the decks for the new year: (10) Gratuitous display of one of the scary-looking equations th...

It was another object lesson in science's ability to obfuscate, intimidate and make you scratch your head till it bleeds. While I was re...

A certain incident has been nibbling away at my consciousness for ages like a kind of psychic termite. It happened in my freshman physics cl...

There is an excellent article on the Washington Post's web site on Danish astronomer, Ole Romer, who devised a method of estimating the ...