With all of the fuss in DC surrounding Congress working on sponsoring new health care initiatives, it doesn't seem like anyone has asked this basic question: is health care truly that critical? Here's the short question and answer - if you don't have health care for a year, will the...
Bob Hauge's research team at Rice University just announced they've created a method that can build pure carbon nanotubes that are currently measured in centimeters, but could eventually yield nanotubes of unlimited length. For those who are wondering what's so big about carbon nanotubes, carbon nanotubes are small carbon tubes...
A group of researchers from McGill University studying abdominal aortic aneurysms published a paper in the July issue of Human Mutation that has serious implications for all large scale genetics studies that have been started in the last 15 years (except for those using DNA from cancer cells), including those...
Back in high school, a friend of mine gave a presentation in an advanced biology class we had together about the potential to regenerate human limbs by learning about salamanders, which he also tied to how humans could eventually take-on the power of some superheroes. Well, it looks like researchers...
A couple of friends had passingly mentioned it, so I decided to hunt down the paper on "the genius curve." It's a very interesting paper published in 2003 about how the genius and crime curves are linked by the testosterone drop that happens in men once they get married and...
The fact that an African-American firefighter would punch a Latino firefighter, because the Latino firefighter stood up for equality under the law, is ridiculous. It's sad that some minorities want their employers to promote them based-on the color of their skin instead of the content of their character, and these...
In case you were wondering what is guiding all of those economists out their making decisions right now that will decide the future state of our economy (or if we'll have one), Yoram Bauman does a brilliant job of translating the 10 principles, so that non-economists can understand what is...
Right now, Democrats and Republicans in Washington, D.C. are fighting over what type of system the United States should use to control skyrocketing health care costs. I thought I would do some digging to see which plan will actually reduce costs. The Plans: Democrats - Government-insured (especially a push for...
I can get into some fairly intense debates with a few friends of mine that subscribe to the utilitarian ethic, since I am an ardent individualist. So I've been thinking about how to best show the fundamental flaw of utilitarianism and why individualism is the view I subscribe to. It...
Since before the Federal Government decided to get in the game of bailing-out the banks last fall, I've been of the opinion that it would be better for the Federal Government to not let banks get too big to fail and to break them up into smaller pieces when they...
