Percival Zhang: cheap hydrogen fuel from any plant

Joseph S. has sent me links to articles (e.g. UPI , Forbes ) about an energy breakthrough claimed by Percival Zhang , a bio-engineer from ...

UCSC study: sea lions like Backstreet Boys

...but the metronome is pretty good, too... The University of California in Santa Cruz – where I spent the first half of the year 2000 – has...

Matt Ridley on the greening planet

Many of us had serious doubts about the talk claiming that lots of cows will green the deserts . On the other hand, I have almost no doubts ...

Greening the world's deserts with lots of cows

Since I was a kid, the idea of greening the Sahara desert (and smaller deserts) looked immensely noble to me. Now, Anthony Watts became unus...

Nature, Reuters: Amazon forest will thrive due to CO2

Alister Doyle of Reuters , Green Optimistic , Mongabay.com , and others dared to blasphemously discuss a heretical paper in Nature, Sensiti...

Does the Bigfoot exist?

You must have noticed that two days ago, news sources were hyping a claim of Melba Ketchum, a Texan veterinarian, that she has sequenced th...

The 234-bit gene that turns an ape into a man

You must have wondered why some of us are human while others are just apes. As I learned from an article that was sent to me by Peter F., al...

Candida: uncertainties, strategies, victories

I have declared a victory in the war against the yeast and started a normal diet. As a result, the yeast cells have been downgraded from ho...

Chemists' name for honesty: testosterone

The steroid hormone seems to reduce men's lying Have you ever wondered whether there is a simple explanation why maths and exact science...

DNA not long-lived, Jurassic Park claimed unlikely

So far I have doubts that they have actually demonstrated it The Telegraph and others discuss a research done at the Murdoch University in...

Fifty years after Silent Spring

Conservationism or environmentalism as an ideology has its roots in Nazi Germany and one could probably go even further. But the Western en...

I probably suffer serious illness

Candida overgrowth You may have noticed that the blogging frequency decreased during the last week or so. So did my life expectancy: with th...