Watching the Jackson debacle has me asking questions about his unusual lifestyle.  At first, it simply seemed sad that someone with so much talent has so many inner demons.  But I soon began wondering, could he have been the same without the freakishness that went with it?

I'm going to step above my (science) pay grade with an idea.  Perhaps it is already being worked on and I just have not heard of it - quite likely.  And perhaps it can't be done; although it seems to me that it could be done.

I find myself fascinated how similar people, with similar values, can feel so differently about social engineering.  This comes out in political discourse, and certainly is a hot topic today, with those more in favor of socialism, which I’ll refer to in this article as socialism inclined, having dramatically increased momentum for putting their more socialistic policies in place.

A couple of years back I read a theory in Charles Pellegrino's book "Ghosts of Vesuvius" that has fascinated me since, that the Biblical story of Cain and Abel is an echo of the genocide of Neanderthals by Homo sapiens.

It is known that Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens lived around the same time.  Doesn’t it only seem reasonable that this story may be the story, passed down from fireside to fireside, of the end of neanderthals?

I was listening to a presentation being given by futurist David Houle a few days ago.  He began to talk about how technology is changing the way that people communicate and work, particularly with the exponential global growth in cell phone subscribers.  As he relayed stats, he discussed implications for how society works.  This made me begin to think of something that had been pestering the back of my mind for a while, the implications of the rapid adoption of Facebook.

There was a study done over a decade ago by Claud Wedekind in which 44 men wore the same T-shirt for three days, refraining refrained from deodorants and scented soaps so they wouldn’t interfere with their smell.  Thereafter women sniffed the shirts and indicated which ones they felt smelled the best. In this test, the researchers found that women preferred the smell of a man whose MHC (major histocompatibility complex), which is a series of genes involved in our immune system, was most different from their own.