You've worked for years, but can't finish a final monograph that will earn you a degree. What's going on? I've a few tips to help.

With the Web, an ill-shaped comment or a bad-taste joke may bring disproportional shame and destroy lives. We urgently need to learn how to survive in these dangerous times.

Why do secular democracies still allow church bells to be a pain in the ass, invading and disturbing people's private lives? Which part of the lesson on religion-state separation they didn’t get?

Hundreds of millions of scientific records, from papers to bureaucratic reports. They form a brain-like network where each node interacts with the others through us. Is science an emergent being wh...

Even if you don’t care about the privacy implications of tracking cookies and other technologies sites use to identify us online, you might want to turn on Tracking Protection in Firefox anyway for a potential big speed boost.

We all know that class differences exist in society, but just how bad can it be? Check out the comic…

Free java calculator for (Huckel) + [Mesomerism]. (Molecular Orbitals, charges, energy) + [Lewis structures drawn or generated, weights].

Link to Piled Higher and Deeper

Link to Piled Higher and Deeper

Expanding universe, eternal return? Here it is a (short) fictional take on these speculative dreams.

The first video explains why the sky is blue and the sun yellow. The second explains why the sky isn't purple. The third tells why stars are star-shaped.

How it would be if we could sort all human faces according to their resemblance and play them in a movie?

You may know how it works, but you can't ride this bike. Your brain won't let you to do so.

Peer-review is essential to keep science on track. But it can be too demanding on scientists, who are asked to do it for free and anonymously. How many papers are fair to review or to decline?

Rain drops are a physical impossibility! These videos explain why.

Why do these things correlate? These 15 correlations will blow your mind. (Is this headline sensationalist enough for you to click on it yet?)

One single water molecule may change the excited-state lifetime of 2-aminopurine by a factor of 100.

Academy may be a career dead-end. Where is the exit door for postdocs and grad students?

Quantitative evaluation of scientific production isn't disrupting science. On the contrary, it's the best we can do. The alternative is to give in to bias and prejudice.