Dear readers of the Science Fix: real life is interfering with my online life in a big way (but in a good way) and it’s becoming increasingly difficult for me to write this blog in a timely fashion. I’m hoping to be able to still post a Science Fix at least a couple of times a…

Blue has always been my favorite color, ever since early childhood (no pink for me, no thanks!). I…

I have an announcement to make: I will be a speaker at the Women In Secularism 2 conference next May in Washington DC, probably in a panel on pseudoscience, alternative medicine,…

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Tomorrow is the first anniversary of our social networking site. I want to personally thank the many members who have contributed and continue to contribute to the science discussions. I also want to especially thank Michel, who suggested the major improvement of including visuals in the blog, and for…

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK: Amazing Footage Of A Chick Embryo: researcher Anna Franz gives us a glimpse of the vascular system of a fertilized chicken embryo by cutting away a small portion of an eggshell and injecting ink into the yolk sac artery. This video won Nikon’s first annual Small World in Motion…

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VIDEO THE WEEK: Lights Over Lapland photographer Chad Blakley captured this amazing view of the aurora borealis in Sweden on January 24th, 2012. The January 23rd solar flare and ensuing coronal mass ejection are the 'lighting engineers' of this…

Today is Friday the 13th. Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted: "Remember that Thursday the 12ths are just as rare as friday the 13th!

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VIDEO THE WEEK: Giant Japanese hornets slaughter European honeybee hive. From National Geographic. Not for the faint of…

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VIDEO THE WEEK: Here’s a great video explaining how many patterns in nature relate to the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci sequence is a number series in which the numbers in the series are the sum of the previous 2 numbers. As a rule, it can written as xn = xn-1 + xn-2. The ratio of any two successive…

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“And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry,…

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Astronomers Take a Photograph of the Youngest Supernova Right After Its Explosion. To capture this…

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK: Watch this amazing footage as Steve Leonard gets up close and personal with a giant octopus in the freezing sea waters. Would you be happy to get this close to an Extreme Animal with giant eyes and pale blue blood? Find out now as you take a dive into this beautiful environment.

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PLUG OF THE WEEK: We have a new science-related group! Please visit and join Genius and Technology: Appliances, machines, gadgets, apps, widgets and gizmos. They shape our lives and most of us couldn't survive without…

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PLUG OF THE WEEK: The NAKED APE Video Thread. We are collecting here great videos from scientists…