AK's Rambling Thoughts

A few days ago, I became aware of a potentially game-changing development in fossil carbon energy: The successful prototype mining venture...

Way back in 1998 I was involved in a project Called Newstrolls , an early blog created by a few people moving from the old Hotwired threads ...

The recent pre-publication of four papers by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature team has raised the level of furor in at least some ven...

I have to share this, although I suspect everybody already has read about it, or soon will. Here's the headline and lead paragraph I re...

From a couple of articles by Kimberley J. Hockings, et als. : Chimpanzees Share Forbidden Fruit , and Road crossing in chimpanzees: A risky ...

I've just found time to read John Wilkin's Is the soul something we should be agnostic about? , as well as two posts he links to: Se...

I was recently informed by a creationist that "evolution is a lie!" I went to the trouble of thinking through and writing down my...

Yesterday's occurrence of thundersnow in Chicago had me looking for explanations. Wiki gave a lightweight summary , with just enough t...

A recently published paper [1] has impelled me to discuss a favorite theory of mine, involving the actual stages in which our species lang...

The recent discovery of animals that appear to live entirely without oxygen [1] has confirmed a scenario of convergent evolution in the de...

I've been rather quiet lately, with a bunch of projects taking up my time and sending me all over the countryside with little opportunit...

The latest book in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, The Gathering Storm has appeared in B&N, although my last understanding i...