Are you sick of nature shows sidestepping environmental disasters and general negative effects humans cause on the species we come into contact with? PBS has always been a mark of quality programming but this new series has me jazzed up for it’s innovative approach to the discussion of human impact on the environment. EARTH A […]

Echinacea, ginseng, St. John’s wort, garlic, ginkgo biloba and saw palmetto top the list of popular supplements found to contain little or none of the herbs listed on the label. New York State’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ordered Target, GNC, Walgreens and Walmart to stop selling any herbal supplements on the tested list after an […]

It’s my topic de jour, vaccination. I just want to write something to endorse this piece I came across which  succinctly encapsulates the current events about vaccination in America. I found The Good Thing About The Disney Measles Outbreak on Huffington Post. It’s written by Claire McCarthy, MD. I was happy to read something in […]

An Arizona cardiologist finally came out and said what the underlying attitude is behind parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. In an interview with CNN last Monday, he openly admitted that he doesn’t care who gets the measles from his unvaccinated kid. During his ridiculous CNN interveiw Dr. Jack Wolfson said,  “I’m not going […]

One of the things I love about science is the vocabulary that it allows people to use. The whole point of any science is to understand and adapt to the environments we find ourselves in. People who are particularly good at explaining this vocabulary make good or even great scientists but the ideas scientists explain are not […]

Look, I mean… I want aliens to exist. As of Summer of 2013, statistically half of the United States believes there are aliens. Roughly a third of Americans believe there are intelligent aliens. While it isn’t the largest sampling size, the veracity of this stat is pretty unchallenged. (The HuffPost/YouGov poll was conducted June 11-12 […]

Australia’s national print newspaper, The Australian, printed what can be assumed was an inadvertently insulting obituary of Colleen McCullough, author of the 30-million-copies-sold classic, “The Thorn Birds”. McCullough’s accomplishments took a backseat to this opening line: “Colleen McCullough, Australia’s best-selling author, was a charmer,” the obituary began. “Plain of feature, and certainly overweight, she was, […]

Perhaps best continuing the train of thought from the 1990 philosophical classic, A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman, Sight and Sensibility is an exploration of the brains ability to adapt to the human sense of sight, and a strong argument for environmental factors being able to drastically shape our sense of sight. […]

Gravity is one of the most mysterious forces. Gravity is often problematically explained in an analogy wherein it is described as a property of time-space. This explanation was first offered by Einstein and regards time and space as a 3-dimensional, stretchable fabric. Check out this demonstration high school physics teacher at Los Gatos High School […]

Mankind had been creating artificial reefs for thousands of years.  Various societies have built underwater structures in order to encourage the development of marine life where a bland ocean floor once stood. Artificial reefs can slow and even reverse erosion, manipulate the waterways for trade or military purposes. In recent times they have been created […]