Seeing visions: Science’s annual visual challenge – in pictures

Each year, Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation host the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.  They have now announced the winners of its 2011 International Science & Engineering Visual Challenge.  Here now are two of the truly inspiring and amazing entries. Yep, my pick, you might and probably would make a different selection, … Read more

Boycott Elsevier

There comes a time when enough is quite frankly enough. Elsevier’s business practices demand a response … why? They charge exorbitantly high prices for their journals. They sell journals in very large “bundles,” so libraries must buy a large set with many unwanted journals, or none at all. Elsevier thus makes huge profits by exploiting … Read more

Islamic Fly Science!!! – Yep, more lunacy apparently from a Saudi University

There is a science experiment currently doing the rounds at the moment. The reaction to it can be summed up as follows Muslims: “Yea, proof that the Islam is truth” Everybody else: “You have got to be kidding, this is not science” OK, some details, the very brief paper starts out with the a quote from some … Read more