The Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill is still working its way through the courts. The US government is pressing ahead with its $18 billion legal action despite the oil giant’s $7.8 billion settlement with 110,000 Gulf of Mexico businesses and individuals after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.The US government is also investigating whether there are criminal charges to be brough.Here are some...
read morePolitical scientists are in a panic because the US House of Representatives finally passed a bill which contains a line item eliminating National Science Foundation grants for political scientists. The Senate may vote soon also, though there are a lot more Democrats in the Senate so it is unlikely it will pass. We know how much they hate science. read...
read moreTraditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is enjoying increasing popularity all over the world - to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars each year, making it Big Business. Yet there are concerns. Two molecular genetics studies show that the treatments can be harmful, as well, because not all of their ingredients are listed, or even legal, some can cause cancer and proponents often simply do not...
read moreAmericans are being beat by Asians again. Asians do better on international standardized tests, their economies are better; heck, they are even robbing us of that last stronghold of American dominance - obesity. The Chinese have gotten a level of fat in one generation that it took Americans 200 years to accomplish. Typical overachievers. read...
read moreAlan Turing, the computer science legend best known for his part in breaking the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park in World War II, may have died of an accident rather than suicide, according to a new claim.Accidental cyanide poisoning? Do go on.Professor Jack Copeland, director of the The Turing Archive for the History of Computing, claims in a new book that Turing may have died due to...
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