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California is still the best place for tech companies to do business. But colonies on offshore platforms might one day become our centers of innovation.

While natural disasters such as floods and tornadoes have captured our attention this summer, the scale of destruction is very slight compared to the worst man-made disasters.

Over the last year, we’ve been hearing about unrest at the Taal caldera in the Philippines. Last year, PHIVOLCS even raised the alert status briefly when seismicity at the volcano […]

If you think about any of the most popular Internet start-ups that have appeared on the public radar within the past year, they all share one unique characteristic: they are […]

Here’s an exaggerated account of the slide of our professors into the proletariat given by The Nation, our leading journal on the left.  Let me repeat what I’ve said before:  Good […]

How did we evolve the most loving brain on the planet? Dr. Rick Hanson identifies the key reasons: biological evolution, culture, economics, and personal history.

Yesterday the CTC Sentinel released a special issue on al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden.  You can read the entire thing here.  There are a number of incredibly […]

“What happened to Africa?” an art-world friend of New York Times writer Holland Cotter asked. “It disappeared.” What that friend was alluding to, and what Cotter analyzes in a recent […]

The eruption of Nabro in Eritrea has been a bit of an enigma, mostly because the volcano is (a) so remote and (b) it’s previous activity is mostly unknown. In […]

After seeing how mobile and social networking technologies led to popular revolutions in places like Tunisia and Egypt, is it possible that we’ll soon see a similar type of revolution inour own backyard?

Francis Fukuyama argues that China’s repressive state apparatus is far more sophisticated than the regimes in the Middle East that have fallen during the so-called Arab Spring. 

Criminal Implications of Implantable Medical Devices Since the dawn of the 1970′s television action show the Six Million Dollar Man, the public has been fascinated by bionics and the integration […]

In the 35 years since I got my first job  teaching writing, a few new tools that make writing easier have been invented. I used a retractable fountain pen, one of […]

After months of delays and preparation, the oldest remaining shuttlein the fleet–Discovery, finally made its way from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the KSC to the launch pad. At 4:53 […]

n nIn a special feature on “dream jobs”, an AT&T researcher based in New Jersey explains what the “inventive researcher” does all day. In addition to being given free reign […]

There was a time not so long ago that I would cart along a laptop and a Palm device, in my case a Tungsten T3, wherever I went, whether on […]

News Yemen has the round-up of Deputy Prime Minister for Defense and Security Affairs, Rashad al-‘Alimi, appearance before parliament. (He was only one day late – but to be fair […]

We are entering into a decisive turning point for the reactor crisis in Japan, as heroic workers attempt to restore power to the compromised reactors. The next few days are critical.

We’re faced with puzzles every day in life. That’s why it’s so important to keep your mind flexible, says NY Times Crossword Editor Will Shortz, recounting a time he had to use his puzzle solving skill in an airport parking garage. 

“You put super in front of eruption and I don’t imagine it makes it better.” – FEMA Sec. Wendy Reiss in Supervolcano. This week in my Freshman Volcanoes class here […]

As seen on Reuters, Viagra plans to offer over-the-counter Viagra pills to British men for the first time ever starting today: “Men will be able to buy impotence treatment Viagra […]

A (Gallup) study shows that only 35% of our independents now approve of the work our president is doing. There are a variety of reasons for that.  But here’s the one that […]

With Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, etc, we have all become “life bloggers,” and innovative startup Memolane is the first to compile all these data points into searchable electronic memory.

This fake controversy about the rapper Common and his invitation to a White House poetry reading had me thinking about “Sucker M.C.’s”, an old rap song by RUN-DMC. Sean Hannity […]

Pre-industrial societies with polygyny as the dominant marriage institution consume less alcohol than those with monogamy.

Area 51 has long been a treasure trove for conspiracy theorists. Now a new book delivers some bombshell claims about the world’s most famous and secretive military installation.

The U.S. Department of Energy aims to bring down the cost of solar electricity via a new program dubbed “SunShot,” an homage to President John Kennedy’s “moon shot” pledge in 1961.

Today I just wanted to bring up a few examples of bad “science” floating around the internet. Finding articles/posts like these always get me riled up, but I wonder how […]

The new fissure (see top left) that began erupting last weekend after the draining events at Pu`u O`o and Halema`uma`u appears to have more longevity than the last similar fissure […]

David Brooks of the New York Times delivered a lecture at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky last night. It was definitely the highlight of this trip to S.’s alma mater. […]