1838: William Henry Perkin is born. As an 18-year old chemistry student, he will synthesize an artificial dye in the purplish range. It will change the way we live. Talk about your spring-break project! Perkin was a student at the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1856. While at home in the Ea...

Just skip the messy chemical stuff. The device created by University of Miami Physicist Stewart E. Barnes, of the College of Arts and Sciences and his collaborators can store energy in magnets rather than through chemical reactions. Like a winding up toy car, the spin battery is "wound up" by applyi...

Fans of “Supernatural� (8 p.m. Thursday, WGN-Ch. 9) will have a couple of weeks to prepare themselves for this sight: irreverent, classic-rock-loving demon hunter Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) wearing a suit and tie, working as a middle manager at a corporation, listening to NPR and drinking l...

by Dr. Mercola Nearly everyone knows that white flour is not healthy for you, but most people don’t know that when white flour is bleached, it can actually be FAR worse for you. It’s generally understood that refining food destroys nutrients. With the most nutritious part of the grain removed, w...

Self-identified rational people take pride in the fact that they can't be easily manipulated, but of course that's the pride part of their dumb monkey brains talking. Here's an interesting study that measured whether hard-to-pronounce words were perceived as riskier than words that were easier to pr...

THE EVIDENCE IS THAT THE OCEAN IS COOLING, NOT WARMING An email below from Craig Loehle [Craigloehl@aol.com] Hansen's theory that CO2 forcing is hiding in the oceans can't be true if the oceans are cooling, as my latest paper shows (Energy & Environment Vol. 20, No. 1&2, 2009). Excerpt below: Coolin...

Late blog, due to the insane nature of my weekend, you pretty much get links today. Michael Lombardi on Owens to Buffalo … THE GOOD The Bills gain a big-play receiver who drops too many balls (second in the NFL last season) to play alongside one of the league’s more underrated players in Lee Eva...

(NaturalNews) After years of insisting Bisphenol-A (BPA) posed no threat to the health of babies, six larger manufacturers of baby bottles have announced they will stop shipping new baby bottles made with the chemical. No existing baby bottles are being recalled, however. Nor are they being taken of...

Hello all, I am a piano/organ player looking for a guitarist and a bass man to form a rock group. My friend the drummer is already on board. We've written a number of songs between us but my hope is to collaborate as a group and achieve what those in the biz call "chemistry". If you can sing, I thin...

The ocean acidity scare revs up Big article from "The Times" below. Not the slightest mention of the element of self-contradiction in it, however. Warmed water gives off CO2. Try opening a bottle of warm Coca Cola if you doubt it. The CO2 will rush out in a spurt of foam and the drink will be "flat"...