Crumb Trail

Ever wonder how to sharpen a file? Tiny little gnomes with even tinier little stones to sharpen all those little ridges? Nope, acid . THE ...

A clever hack . The basic process, electrolysis, is nothing new: Combine water with an electrolyte, and run current through the solution, ...

Old Joe helps you be alert . researchers from the University of Queensland found that with caffeine consumption we are more likely to atte...

More Meta than thou Postgenomic collates posts from life science blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data. For ex...

Buy her a beer and talk about old times . Research involving more than 7,000 older women found that those who drink a moderate amount of a...

The Colorado river than Powell saw when he explored it for the post-bellum US in 1869 may have been more representative than the river we...

Cosmological membrane theory is an interesting speculation without evidence, or much evidence at any rate, and none of it unambiguous. Perh...

Work them to death . "Preliminary indications from follow-up work in the laboratory suggest that voluntary exercise enhances UVB-indu...

The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN) Task Force is publishing some essays . For their first major project, the CRN Task Force c...

I'm a sharpening nut. It's a habit I picked up in my youth one year when I worked with an old immigrant cabinet maker. He told stor...

A potential solution for all kinds of problems is computer driven fabricators. When mature these technologies may function at the nano scal...

Climate opportunists never miss an opportunity to mislead society. On 15 April, the River Danube reached its highest level for some 111 y...

One of the issues I've been paying more attention to is the large and increasing number of boys that fall off the formal education wago...

If you want to get noticed you must be controversial. You can do that by being more shrill than fellow travelers or by loudly beating your ...