The High Hill

Yet another awful virus from Africa . A new virus that causes fatal hemorrhagic fevers has been discovered in southern Africa. It killed fou...

Ethanol from corn is under assault from all sides these days, blamed (unfairly, I think) for food shortages, decried (fairly, I think) as an...

One of the drawbacks of silicon photovoltaics is the poor absorption of light from oblique angles owing to reflection. To get around that, s...

or, accentuate the positive : “It is clear that a majority of Americans have chosen the Democratic Party to lead the country in a different ...

I'm impressed, although the little guys are as often as not a menace when I take my lunch in the park. The cheeky greys decided to tea...

If you think we need another FDR during these economically troubled times, take a look at this article , which describes work by two UCLA ec...

With the price of oil crashing, look for an "incident" to scare it back up, says Galrahn at Information Dissemination : As the pri...