S o the slogan du jour, All Of Us , is the name of a 1.4 billion dollar initiative being launched today by NIH Director Francis Collins.  Th...

E ntanglement in physics is about action that seems to transfer some sort of 'information' across distances at speeds faster than th...

I t often happens in science that our theory of some area of reality is very precise, but the reality is too complex to work out precisely,...

T he previous posts in this series were about the potential relevance of somatic mutation to neurologically relevant traits.  I commented ab...

T he news is properly filled these days with reports of studies documenting various very mysterious aspects of the cosmos, on scales large a...

T he old Rumsfeld jokes about the knowns and unknowns are pretty stale by now, so we won't really indulge in beating that dead horse.  B...

W ho should take statins.....besides everyone ?  I thought a lot about this when I was working on a lecture about predicting disease. The p...

I f blog posts were physical we'd have spilled a lot of ink trying to make the point that getting beyond uncertainty in most things in h...