Dispatches From Turtle Island

For those of you who aren't  Young Earth Creationists  (as about 0.1% of scientists and 46% of American adults are) or  Flat Earthers  (...

This paper makes that case that developing a merchant class in the Middle Ages was critical to the development of literacy and self-governme...

Most common textbook and popular press illustrations of the internal structure of the proton get it wrong in light of the available evi...

The first decent direct measurement of the speed of light was made in 1849.  A new pape r provides step by step instructions on how to ...

The Perimeter Institute is a real cutting edge center for innovative physics research that I have the greatest respect for as a likely sour...

Woit's blog has a nice textbook section format set of materials on Euler's formula (e.g. e^ipi=-1) for use in a Calculus II class t...

Lubos has a wonderful biography of Oliver Heaviside , a self-taught man from a humble condition who was the source of many of the words and ...

The linguistic orthodoxy that sees  Old English as a direct descendant of Old Frisian and later dialects of English as descendants of Old E...

Usually I discuss new findings in science. Today, I'll identify a number of issues that science has, nearly has, and may have the tools...