Don’t read this post’s link unless you have a strong stomach and… January 4, 2012 …a scientifically curious mind. Here’s a hint on what’s at the other end of this link. A number of years ago I was grossed… Continue Reading
More heat than light December 17, 2011 As a few people know Claudia used to run the local power company. (Oh I forgot, all my potential new constituents don’t know that… Continue Reading
90% of you is something else October 4, 2011 Fascinating and it poses an interesting question about the theoretical cloning of dinosaurs. Continue Reading
Thomas Jefferson cut out all the stuff…. September 19, 2011 …he didn’t like in the Bible. He also had five of the books of Lucretius. The story of how secular humanism sneaked into the… Continue Reading
Scientist disses global warming September 15, 2011 My Buddy sent me the blog post from a political hack who was delighted to report that a scientist who endorsed Obama has quit… Continue Reading
All creatures small and great [BIGOTRY ALERT] September 13, 2011 It seemed a tad early to go to bed so I looked at the Discover Magazine’s webpage and read five or so interesting articles… Continue Reading
My science or your science September 5, 2011 My buddy sent me two interesting items today. As you might have guessed my buddy and I are sometimes a bit testy with each… Continue Reading
Fly or Drive? June 14, 2011 Here’s a cool website. It allows you to compare the cost, time and carbon burning results of a trip between any two destinations. I… Continue Reading
Caaaaaaw. Caaaaaaw May 10, 2011 Saw this on Nova……..Maybe military intelligence was watching too. Continue Reading
a million a second for each second of the cosmos’s 14 billion years December 23, 2010 Forget counting grains of sand. Count the stars. “In his 1988 book Coming of Age in the Milky Way, the science writer Timothy Ferris… Continue Reading
If the universe is only 4,000 year … December 20, 2010 …that would then mean that this little reverie about the cosmos has been brought to us by another lying scientist making big bucks to… Continue Reading
an email doubts the 6% figure December 14, 2010 I’ll bet the figure is close to correct for scientists who don’t belong to the AAAS too but skepticism is a healthy scientific attribute:… Continue Reading
In the light of night November 11, 2010 When the street light went out across the street a couple weeks ago I woke up to find my second Grafitti paint job of… Continue Reading
The art and science of seduction August 30, 2010 I read about a discovery recently concerning water striders those bugs who skate above water. It seems males will make vibrations on the water… Continue Reading
Potential Earth Impactors are red August 29, 2010 Thirty years ago there were about 8,000 known asteroids. Today there are over half a million known asteroids. One fellow has been plotting their… Continue Reading
In the beginning July 28, 2010 This is the universe that the shepherd priests who took dictation from the Almighty didn’t know about. Within the last year I read a… Continue Reading
Reflections on Electro magnetism January 27, 2010 OK, its been half an hour since I read and posted the story about cell phones. More worrying to me than the possibility of… Continue Reading