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...

JANUARY 20, 2009 Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address Following is the prepared text of President-elect Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, as provided by the Presidential Inaugural Committee: My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have b...

Dr. David Menton and I spoke in Motherwell (near Glasgow), Scotland, on Friday and Saturday nights (in two different venues). It was very difficult to get good photographs in these old buildings–but I enclose a couple for you showing just part of the crowd in each place. We praise the Lord tha...

Climate Change Affecting Europe's Birds Now, Say Researchers: Climate change is already having a detectable impact on birds across Europe, says a Durham University and RSPB-led scientific team publishing their findings to create the world's first indicator of the climate change impacts on wildlife a...

(h/t PZ) Richard Dawkins has been invited to speak at University of Oklahoma, as part of their year of Darwin series of lectures, presentations and whatever. An Oklahoma legislator is trying to pass a resolution banning Richard Dawkins from attending.  Why?  Because “here in Oklahoma we beli...

Black holes once existed exclusively in the realm of theory, but astronomers have become increasingly adept at spotting the telltale signs of objects that are hard to spot due to the fact that they suck in any light that happens to cross an event horizon. Black holes have fallen into two separate ca...

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...

Goddamnit! Once again, the Vatican has issued another proof of its archaic stupidity. A new UN declaration of intent is due to be signed in Vienna on 11 March. However, there are major disagreements between member countries over whether a commitment to “harm reduction” should be included...

Caught in a series of factual errors, or what many are calling outright lies about climate science , Washington Post columnist George Will has upped the ante for himself and his employer with his latest column on global warming. Rather than issue a retraction and simply move on, today he reiterated ...

A recent study shows that porn consumption is higher in states that tend to vote Republican. And we, for one, would like to extend a warm welcome to our red state readers. (boingboing.net)...