The second day of the “Neutrino Conference XIII” in Venice was dedicated to, well, neutrino telescopes. I have written down in stenographical fashion some of the things I heard, and I offer them to those of you who are really interested in the topic, without much editing. Besides, making...

Global Food Crisis Day.   In partnership with radio stations, media, churches and bloggers, Compassion International is working to spread the word about the Global Food Crisis.  We hope to raise both awareness and funds to feed those who are most critically impact...

I’ve worked with a mentee of mine for about a year who, while immensely bright, struggles with some sexual compulsivity issues. (Yes, this mentee is also in therapy; I’m not overstepping my role.) “Kelly” read this old post of mine about flirtation, and brought the subject up...

Why Mothers Kill - A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook 61% of all child abuse is committed by biological mothers.25% of all child abuse is committed by biological fathers. (Statistical Source: Current DHHS report on nationwide Child Abuse) Mother Kills Newborn by Microwaving Mother Attempts to Flush ...

ARGONNE, Illinois — In the basement of a nondescript building here at Argonne National Laboratory, nickel particles in a beaker are building themselves into magnetic snakes that may one day give clues about how life originally organized itself. These chains of metal particles look so much like rea...

The anticipated film Watchmen, based on the 1980s DC Comics 12-part comic book series (later adapted as a graphic novel), hits theaters tomorrow. Die-hard fans of the original publication may fret over its faithfulness to the series, but studio execs also worried about their movie's faithfulness to ...

Someone called Teemu commented on my earlier article on "Relativity, FTL and Causality" and my answer was so long that I thought it should be a post in its own right. Among other things, Teemu said: You say: "For any event P (where P is a label for something happening at a given place at a given tim...

It was with great pleasure that I found yesterday, in the public page of the DZERO analyses, a report on their new search for Higgs boson decays to photon pairs. On that quite rare decay process -along with another not trivial decay, the reaction- the LHC experiments base their hopes to see the Higg...

The urgency of being way behind a single dominant player can make electronics makers do some odd stuff to promote their products. iPod, once an icon of digital cool, has achieved such ubiquity that it doesn’t even try to be hip any more. The thing is being promoted with American Idol, for cryi...

While putting together the scores to evaluate the answers to the 11 questions of the previous post, I realized that they are not enough for a fair classification. So here are a few more quizzes for those of you who found my effort worth paying back with five more minutes of your time. K) You are fou...