DBI (affectionally called the Douche Bag Index) is a number that rates your followers according to how they use Twitter. DBI ranges from 0 to 100 and higher numbers represent people who are more likely to be annoying twitter users.......

The creation of long platinum nanowires at the University of Rochester could soon lead to the development of commercially viable fuel cells. Described in a paper published today in the journal Nano Letters, the new wires should provide significant increases in both the longevity and efficiency of fu...

Electron microscope view of platinum nanowires with beads (left) and without beads (right). Credit: University of Rochester. Click to enlarge. Researchers at the University of Rochester (New York) have developed an electrospinning method to produce the longest platinum nanowires with minimal bead fo...

Gawd, Politico is full of crap: He called for reducing abortions and seeking common ground on one of the nation’s most divisive issues — promises that led some on the right to think maybe, just maybe, Barack Obama was a different kind of Democrat. But no more. A series of decisions in th...

Holy Cow! If we were to bestow our "Ignorant Dolt of the Week" , on Chuck Norris, Glenn Beck, and the gang at Restore The Republic , we would have to retire it. Or, otherwise, endure crippled fingers, being fed intraveniously, while writing a never-ending post. Norris, in his "I may run for presiden...

Of Obama's decision to reverse Bush's ban on federal funding for stem cell research, Yuval Levin has this to say: ...legitimate dispute underlies the stem cell debate. But that is not the ground on which the president made his case yesterday. He argued that to deny free rein to stem cell science is ...

Over the past decade it has become accepted that some T cells play a role in dampening down immune responses. These cells are dubbed regulatory T cells or Treg for short. In lab studies, Treg have been shown to suppress the activation of other T cells, and there is considerable evidence that this re...

I’m having some trouble roping around all this stem cell and healthcare nonsense from Barry the Black Jesus. Obama says, “Our government has forced what I believe is a false choice between sound science and moral values.” “It is about ensuring that scientific data is never di...

Note: I first posted this in May of 2005, but though it was worth re-posting in light of recent developments . When did I start being me? And when did you start being you? Timely questions, since the ethics of embryonic stem cell is much in the news. I, and you, were once embryos. The pivotal questi...

by John F. Di Leo Two truisms in American politics are hardly worth pointing out anymore – it’s become a given that the Democrats use Orwellian NuSpeak to obfuscate their actions, and that the "mainstream press" – the fifth columnists......