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The following blog post is dedicated to friends who have suffered—recently or less recently—from the death of loved ones. Unfortunately I...

  Dmitri Mendeleev [1834-1907] While the world at large is preoccupied by ridiculous or uninteresting themes, I’m impressed to find th...

The US writer-director Matthew Chapman is the co-founder and president of ScienceDebate.org , an organization trying to get the American pr...

There's a new atheist kid on the YouTube block: Jaclyn Glenn . Here's her profile: Jaclyn Glenn was born March 25, 1988, an...

When I first noticed a tweet suggesting that our dear former prime minister Julia Gillard was knitting a stuffed kangaroo for the futur...

The British charitable trust Sense about Science has just launched a promotional campaign on the theme of the constant necessity to ask for...

In my recent blog post entitled Children's books [ display ] , I indicated that Richard Dawkins has a book for children coming out soo...

Humans have always liked to draw up lists of the most marvelous things in the world. In Hellenistic times, a famous list of this kind contai...

The gist of an article in the latest issue of Wired Science is so utterly amazing that it's hard to imagine that the phenomenon in ques...

There's a fabulous website (for readers of my kind… whatever that fuzzy expression might mean) known as Edge , which was created by the ...

Curiously, it was only relatively late in life that I discovered the verb " boggle ", generally applied to minds, and I imagined i...

I know this is going to sound silly, but I'll say it all the same. Ever since my youth, I've been intrigued by the philosophy of mor...

In 1775, the celebrated French mathematician Laplace persuaded the Academy of Sciences in Paris to waste no more time and efforts in the e...

Science is a journal published by the AAAS [ American Association for the Advancement of Science ], founded in 1848, which describes itsel...

When I was a teenager in Australia, a good way of insulting a fellow was to call him a dickhead . I must admit, though, that I never really ...

In my mailbox this morning, I received a nasty trick, stuck away in the cobwebs of the back pages of the latest issue of Scientific American...

Politicians are surely the most arrogant actors of all, because they see themselves endowed with a mandate, and they take themselves very se...

In a book I've been reading over the last few days, I was delighted to come upon an outline of an activity that used to interest me grea...

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity...

Normally, today, Benedict XV should have gone along to the Sapienza University of Rome as a guest of the rector. But he decided, two days ...