This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. Sad, too, because there were many! https://www.wmbriggs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ransom27.png It's Saturday but I'm somewhat tied up…

This post is one that has been restored after the hacking. All original comments were lost. Announcement In the proud and rarely abused tradition of Honoring Important People, we present…

Rained yesterday here in the city of cities. Must be because of climate change, right? Hey. The climate did change and it did rain. What more evidence do you want?…

I've never seen the show, but I've heard that the protagonist on the X Files used to have a desk sign which read, "I want to believe." That sentiment characterizes…

The most intriguing thing about the new peer-reviewed paper of the same name as today's post in Nature: Scientific Reports by Abbas Golestani and Robin Gras is that it is…

Who remembers those crank scientists who wanted to genetically engineer human beings so that they would be sprier and narrower and thus have smaller "carbon footprints"? We don't need 'em!…

First and most important point: there is no way we're going to cover in 750 words the whole of this field. Much will be left out. This small article is…