Science Fact: The headline Invasion of the Nostril Ticks was irresistible. What would you do? Naturally, I had to share it. Tony Goldberg went to Uganda to study disease transmission in chimpanzees, and from chimps to humans. When he reached … Continue reading
Science Fact: Science Magazine conducted a journal sting operation and exposed many international publications as money-grabbing operations with no scientific credentials at all. Publications are critical to researchers in many ways: they determine job security and promotion at many universities. … Continue reading
Science Fact: Renamed food – the restaurant owner’s secret, coming to a school near you. How about a burger? Or would you rather have two 100% pure beef patties, hand-leafed lettuce, tomato, spread with or without onions, stacked high on … Continue reading
Science Fact: Let’s teach our kids early – maybe when they’re one year old – or even prenatal learning! There’s a new study that really makes us jump up. Let’s talk about what’s new, and how it fits into what … Continue reading
Science Fact: Tesla fire: on Tuesday last week near Seattle, a Tesla Model S electric vehicle driving on a state highway ran over some metal debris and damaged its lithium-ion battery pack. The driver stopped and evacuated safely before the … Continue reading
Science Fact: Applied Kinesiology is a chiropractic technique denounced by scientists but which helps many people. It uses “muscle testing” to help the D.C. or D.O. figure out what to do, to make your pain go away. And it’s an … Continue reading
Science Fact: Let’s talk about the origin of life. Not the Sunday School version. Nor the Archaeology version, which is being called Abiogenesis these days. Let’s try the Space Age version. Several recent technical studies posit that life on Earth may … Continue reading
Science Fact: CEO hubris may predict bumpy times ahead for your favorite company stock. Executive or CEO hubris — pride, conceit, egotism, self-importance, narcissism — is the subject of two new scientific studies, and the Financial Times has jumped on them. … Continue reading
Science Fact: Two recent news stories speak directly to the dilemma of Privacy versus Security. Movies, Internet, literature, technology, even cartoons bring “privacy versus security” on center stage. Let’s organize it and try to make some sense, at the price … Continue reading
Science Fact: Replacement organs for the human body seem tantalizingly close, based on recent work. Today, artificial limbs, joints and arterial stents seem commonplace. Bionic organs, mechanical marvels that work within and with your body, are coming along rapidly: today, … Continue reading
Science Fact: We seem to be getting dumber, year by year. A recent European study compared 120 years of intelligence tests and found that the Western countries have lost 14 points of IQ since the Victorian era. The researchers suggest … Continue reading
Science Fact: Human Survival sounds like a pretty weighty topic, even for Scientific American, but there it is, all 1800 words of it Fending off asteroids and capping volcanoes is too difficult. Therefore the article focuses more on why we, … Continue reading
Science Fact: Let’s hear it for renewable energy! What, an extra jolt of coffee in the morning to supercharge your day? No, more like — what do we do when the OIL runs out? You know: solar, wind, biogas (think … Continue reading
Science Fact: No-hangover beer. Now there’s a provocative research result! I can imagine the questions that might be posed: – Did my tax dollars pay for that? – Is that the most important thing scientists have to work on? – … Continue reading
Science Fact: Internet of Things, Internet of Everything. It’s hard to miss those image ads from Cisco and the breathless hype from many sides: from technologists; from self-styled futurists; from investment advisors looking for the next big stock killing; from professional societies … Continue reading
Science Fact: Sunsets are always special, but a sunset with a Green Flash is a rare and memorable event. The Green Flash is common enough to be visible to anyone, but rare enough to be exciting. Moreover, it’s a nice … Continue reading
Science Fact: Frankenburger — that’s meat grown in a test tube — has given late night comedians lots of joke material. And Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has bankrolled research by scientist Mark Post at Maastricht University in the … Continue reading
The newly remodeled artchester.net website is officially open to welcome you. Many thanks to Mike Bell for a great design concept & to all my friends for your Likes and +1s and Follows! [Note: I’m a novice at WordPress, so … Continue reading
Science Fact: Go on a raisin diet and lose weight? Prevent diabetes? Wait a minute, didn’t we already have the grapefruit diet, the avocado diet, etc? And who could forget the Atkins Diet with its rashers of bacon? Does everything qualify … Continue reading
Investment Speculation? What does a physicist have to say about that? When the pros get in over their head, why should you listen to an amateur at all? Never fear, when it comes to what to do, I will point … Continue reading