Arsenic is totally and completely 'natural'.  A basic chemical element, the metalloid is #54 on the periodic table; discovered in 1250 A.D.  The color of arsenic ranges from yellow to grey (see pic below) and even a rather small amount of the stuff in your system will usually kill you.  It affects your body's ability to make energy, and cells virtually shrivel up and die when exposed to it.  One hallmark of arsenic poisioning is deep red membranes due to severe hemorrhage in the tissues.  This wonderful basic element isn't made in a lab by googly white coated skinny nerds.  It's made by Mother Earth.  Created from the warm loam of Earth Goddess, unadulterated, unmanipulated, un-organic chemistrated, t

Since for the core curriculum all Calvin students have to take a biology all types of people are mixed together in every first-year bio class. There are the indie scum who already fancy their biology skills to be superior to the average students because they recycle and compost, accountants who will love the math parts, pre-seminary, classics kids, English majors, etc. They all have differing levels of knowledge and interest in science and some may only pay enough attention to pass it and not put much effort in the class.

Last weekend we went to Colorado Springs, CO, for my older brother's wedding. We decided to make a little road trip of it and travel in a loop. From Las Vegas, NV to Flagstaff, AZ. Next, to Sante Fe, NM and up to Colorado Springs. Then the "fast" route home through Utah and back to Las Vegas.

Hurray, We are saved !! for some time

But end of the world is near.

America who used to be pioneer in Science and Technology seems to be more interested on pigs and lipstics these days. But not to worry, Even though europe snatched science from from us we still have another labrotary working fine here. The labrotary of Mass Media, Small alfa particles like pigs and lipsticks are collided with noble cells of american brains every day to understand the black hole there.

Here is a great look at some negative effects of our incessant green activism. I myself question why there is not more public skepticism on green lobbying efforts.

Anti-science attitudes among aid agencies, poverty campaigners and green activists are denying the continent access to technology that could improve millions of lives, Professor Sir David King will say today.

We have the technology to feed the population of the planet. The question is do we have the ability to understand that we have it, and to deliver?

The NY Times notes the startup (sort of, as no protons were collided) of the Large Hadron Collider in Protons and Champagne Mix as New Particle Collider Is Revved Up.

Science rode a beam of subatomic particles and a river of Champagne into the future on Wednesday.

After 14 years of labor, scientists at the CERN laboratory outside Geneva successfully activated the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest, most powerful particle collider and, at $8 billion, the most expensive scientific experiment to date.

At 4:28 a.m., Eastern time, the scientists announced that a beam of protons had completed its first circuit around the collider’s 17-mile-long racetrack, 300 feet underneath the Swiss-French border. They then sent the beam around several more times.

The NewScientist reports on how superstitions may have helped humans evolve in Superstitions evolved to help us survive - being-human.

Darwin never warned against crossing black cats, walking under ladders or stepping on cracks in the pavement, but his theory of natural selection explains why people believe in such nonsense.

The tendency to falsely link cause to effect – a superstition – is occasionally beneficial, says Kevin Foster, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University.

For instance, a prehistoric human might associate rustling grass with the approach of a predator and hide. Most of the time, the wind will have caused the sound, but "if a group of lions is coming there’s a huge benefit to not being around," Foster says.

My favourite subjects are Mathematics and Science.

I like Mathematics because it is fun and also important. I like Science because it is fun and easy. I also like to do experiments.

I like both subjects very, very much because both are fun.

When I was very small, I used to read a series of astronomy books in my elementary school library. As far as I can recall, they were pretty classy...no stupid cartoons and straightforward information, in a format that young kids could still understand. I remember reading one that had mention of a black hole...there was a diagram of what it would theoretically be like to have your body go into a black hole...it showed a man's form in green ink being stretched out to infinity (and even with the impossible task of trying to draw infinity on a sheet of paper eight inches wide, the book still did a pretty damn good job of getting the idea across). Ever since then I've had the weird and freakish desire to be sucked into a black hole, just 'cause it looked cool.

Hey, with the Large Hadron Collider being switched on, I may just very well get my wish! ;)

Creationism makes people say stupid things; I think we can all agree on that. Occasionally, however, I hit upon someone acting in a way that's so unbelievably stupid it actually makes me embarassed. 

This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about.

The content is nothing special; it's a mixture of current and outdated Creationist claims, including the 'flood geology' stuff that's been kicking around for ages. (You know someone is truly hardcore when they subscribe to that particular kind of nonsense.) What makes it unbearable is when you look at how the author replies to commentors: