Curiosity rover lands 10:31 Pacific time.

If you have any anti-science types in your circle and they start yattering about sending ‘all that money to Mars’ remind them of the fact a crushed car bale—is around $250 a ton if it were pure steel. With plastics, not so much. That’s ALL we...

Does Olympic tape help?

Olympic muscle tape You may have seen striped or patterned athletes in the Games. Called Kinesio tape, it promises to relieve muscle pain and strain. Some swear by it. Some don’t. I got some sports tape, sort of a tape-on elastic bandage after a shoulder injury,...

A welcome to friends who are coming over from Facebook…

After Facebook’s latest shenanigans, the Timeline stuff, and the possibility that they may ‘lock’ access to past files, so that, for instance, if you loaded a picture in 2011, you might not be able to remove it—a situation hinted at in the...

Catseye—a supernova shines again.

supernova shines again That’s really traveling, that energy…. I don’t know if you’ve been catching How the Universe Works on the Discovery networks, but it’s really one of the best in a long time.

Gluten-free diners on the rise? Maybe hybrid wheat?

Gluten-free? Wheat is one of the most ‘altered’ food crops since ancient times…so hybridization is nothing new, but this is an interesting study, and points out one of the problems with genetic alteration (in this case, not genetic alteration in the...