Slow Groove

The Placebo effect is fairly interesting to me. I've probably blogged about it some before - but as most know it's a name given to ...

This blog post is thought provoking in an economics-sort-of-way. Why we do what we do when it's not our job. " We live in a worl...

I've always tended to be what is called a night owl - functioning best at night rather than in the mornings. When I should be going to ...

More on Wall Street gaming the system. Rotten to the core . This story suggests that investment bank practice might involve underpricing I...

Just like people like caffeine in our drinks, bees seem to like caffeine in their nectar too and go back to flowers whose nectar has more c...

I normally try to stay away from political-type posts, but I was riding my exercise bike today I came across Rand Paul's filibuster ove...

Scientific American has been running a series of articles on antibiotic resistance recently. Here's a good Here's a good blog post...

I was reading some stuff about the derivation of musical scales - the math behind why things sound the way they do - and came upon the harmo...

Check this out.  A mini-helicopter that can balance a pole - and toss it to another copter which catches it - at least it worked once.  Pre...

The recent meteor event in Russia has stirred up interest in other meteor events in the newswires, and I came across this account from a 191...

I occasionally take time to think about my dreams when I wake up, and recently I've noticed a change in character from the often disorga...

NYT article had an article this morning pointing out renewed interest in dangers posed by meteors and the need to do some better sky survey...

I was reading a book called _Analyze This_ recently that was detailing many examples of how computer algorithms are increasingly used in the...

I saw a link to this page on the Marginal Revolution website.  I tend to like images that show nature taking back from civilization, but th...