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It has been a long time since I last so enjoyed reading a book. In The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist, Jim Longuski talks about the 7 secrets of how to think like a rocket scientist (duh!) His words are humourous, his stories interesting. Chapters are bite-size, usually 2 pages long and you can finish each under 5 minutes, good for people like me who like frequent breaks.

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Posted Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:35pm PDT Jim Hansen, left, a leading researcher on global warming, talks with House Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee Chairman Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., right, prior to a briefing on global warming on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) WASHINGTON - Exactly 20 years aft

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science WriterJune 24, YahooWASHINGTON - Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.James Hansen told Congress on Monday that the world has long passed the "dangerous level" for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and needs to get back to 1988 levels. He sa

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ A former Boeing Co. scientist who specialized in anti-missile systems plans to plead guilty to unlawfully retaining national defense information, his attorney said. Abraham Lesnik, 68, was charged Monday, nearly two years after a federal investigation into whether he misused classified information, prosecutors said. He could receive up to 10 years in [...]

Pilot whales are the cheetahs of the oceans, focusing their hunting effort on short, intense chases after a few rich food items. They are the first deep-diving whales known to follow such a strategy. Whales such as sperm whales and b

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(Denver, CO) A researcher at the University of Colorado wants to study the effects of cell phone waves on the brains of developing children, even teenagers. Shaun Boyd reports on Frank Barnes' concerns. He wants to learn about long term exposure. Tech Tags: children's newswatch children's news kids news children kids youth

Well doggers. I know I've BARKED a couple of times now about humans CLONING DOGS and CROSS-SPECIES BREEDING and figured as many humans 'DON'T GET IT' I would do a simple photo spread to help them understand how WRONG this experimentation is.So what you see below is a PRIME EXAMPLE of CROSS-SPECIES BREEDING and a very clear demonstration on how this JUST ISN'T RIGHT! So here's me as a

By Brian Thompson I. The Setup I don’t know about you, but I still have a basement full of canned goods and ramen noodles leftover from Y2K. At least, I think I do. I have heard an awful lot of squeaking down there over the last eight years, but I always assumed it was just… Crap.

NEW YORK (AP) — Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music. Sacks, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Dr. Shiv Chopra, as a vaccine and drug regulator for Health Canada for nearly forty years, evaluated every red-hot topic in public health. He tried, sometimes successfully, to protect the public from ineffective and harmful vaccines, genetically modified foods, pesticides, carcinogenic antibiotics and hormones used in food-producing animals, and agricultural practices that promote Mad Cow Disease.

"The SCIENTIST 2.008" is an international videoart festival organized by the cultural association "Ferrara Video&Arte". This festival (totally free for the artists and public) is at the second edition and takes place the 19-20-21st on September 2008 in the historical town of Ferrara, Italy. The Scientist, conceived and directed by two professor of the University of Ferrar

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has finally made it to an A-list Hollywood project with the sequel of Pink Panther. Though Mallika Sherawat is often talked about when an Indian name crops up with a foreign production, it looks like Priyanka Chopra might have just pulled off the biggest prize of them all. The buzz is that the next Superman film is going to need an Indian scientist for his next adventure and

Oh, Bigfoot. How you toy with my emotions. I don’t remember much about Harry and the Hendersons—just a scene about defrosting a refrigerator and the sound of John Lithgow’s career crashing to the Earth—but I do remember that the titular sasquatch warmed my sugar-addled heart. What kid wouldn’t want a giant, bipedal creature with soulful blue eyes as his own personal bouncer? Until, o

Australia. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The Petroleum Resources Division is currently looking to expand and seeks an enthusiastic and motivated individual with expertise in geomechanical modelling. The successful candidate will work in close cooperation with established geomechanics /rock physics researchers as well as with scientists from other disciplines

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Cold fusion, the act of producing a nuclear reaction at room temperature, has long been relegated to science fiction after researchers were unable to recreate the experiment that first "discovered" the phenomenon. But a Japanese scientist was supposedly able to start a cold fusion reaction earlier this week, which—if the results are real—could revolutionize the way we gather energy.

As I’m sure you have noticed, Dr. Isaid No has been noticeably absent the last few weeks.  I was trying to avoid writing this post, but I feel that you, dear readers, have a right to know.  The Doc is missing.  Honest.  I have no idea where he is.  His face is too big for a [...]

The Department of Pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center invites applications for a tenure track faculty position at the Assistant Professor/Associate Professor level with a primary appointment in the Division of Pediatric Neurology and a secondary appointment in the Department of Neurobiology. Candidates should be a physician scientist with a laboratory research program in neurobiology.

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By Brian Thompson I. The Setup Have you ever been to Machu Picchu? I haven’t, but I hear it’s amazing. Could I pony up the cash to take a trip myself? Wouldn’t that kind of first-hand reporting bolster my credibility as a journalist? Perhaps, but I’m no good at high altitudes. Boiling water at sea level already tests my patience (come on, Pasta-Roni!), and I second-hand smoke at least tw

Brian Thompson Imagine you’re a hollow husk of a human being. You’re running only on your body’s autonomous systems and perhaps a 20oz. bottle of Mountain Dew. Yes, your brain still works, but only inasmuch as it isn’t blocking the signals from your eyes, and you’ve often taken the advice of local newspaper film critics and “checked” it “at the door” in order to enjoy things l

Tim Flannery is a scientist specialising in  mammalogy and palaeontology and for some unknown reason considers himself an expert in global warming. He is also insane here is the proof. He wants to pump huge volumes of sulpher into the atmosphere to cool the planet. He admits that he has no idea what effect the other [...]

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By Brian Thompson I. The Setup Several years ago, I experienced something I can only describe as terrifying. It was a rainy Saturday, and I had nothing to do. Obviously, these were the days before broadband Internet and Grand Theft Auto IV. So I schlepped to the local multiplex and bought a ticket to the earliest show. It was a movie called Kung Pow, which starred the gentleman who wrote Ac

Vaccine chief of Merck (massive drug company) admits that the HIV virus was imported to America through the use of HIV-infected African monkeys.Dr. Maurice Hilleman also acknowledges that the SV40 virus, which causes cancer, is being given through vaccines.

Reuters - The Vatican's chief astronomer says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of intelligent life on other planets that is perhaps even more evolved than humans.

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By Brian Thompson I. The Setup When Monet Sledge of Lorain, Ohio went in for an ultrasound in preparation for the birth of her first child, I’m sure she didn’t expect to meet Jesus Christ face to suffering face. Personally, I’ve never been able to make anything out of ultrasound pictures. They’re all fuzzy gray blobs to me. Of course, usually the fully formed and exo-wombed child is nothing but a gray blob to me. But even though I have trouble making heads or tails of an unborn baby’s head or tail, I don’t think I’d mistake the gaseous mass for Christ on the cross.

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Eye-tracking interface means gamers' looks can killNew Scientist (subscription), UK - 8 minutes agoTechnology is being developed to allow people with severe motor disabilities to play 3D computer games like World of Warcraft using only their eyes. … Written by Google Inc. and Powered by WordPress

Ways A Scientist Says We're Through There is no unified theory of you and I. What goes up must come down, whenever you walk into the room. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Le...

Has been awoken by Smash Harry at work today He showed me this website that I’ll post in a minute, and they were going on about robotic suits, like the ones used in the new Ironman film, so I got him to send me a link, and from there I’ve been looking at some [...]

Has been awoken by Smash Harry at work today He showed me this website that I’ll post in a minute, and they were going on about robotic suits, like the ones used in the new Ironman film, so I got him to send me a link, and from there I’ve been looking at some [...]

In our never ending quest to bring you the developing news on cloning technology scientists in Italy claimed to have successfully created a second generation cloned horse. The parent horse, Prometea... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

By Brian Thompson The Setup My amateur science practice takes up a lot of my free time. Sure, it doesn't pay anything, and it's really nothing more than looking at certain aspects of human behavior and snarkily quipping at it, but it takes a lot out of a guy. When I'm not debunking, dismissing, deconstructing, or spending time with my family (in that order), I'm usually sleeping. Or, if my copy of Grand Theft Auto IV worked (thanks a lot, Rockstar Games), shooting hookers with rocket launchers. Which is why I was as surprised as anyone to find myself in a rare moment of leisure contemplating sitting in front of the keyboard and typing a short story about my Dungeons & Dragons character.

Ministry of Environment & Forests Paryavaran Bhawan, CGO Complex,Lodhi Raod, New Delhi – 110003 Scientist - F in Ministry of Environment & Forests : 01 post, Pay scale : Rs. 16400-20000, Qualification : Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering/Technology with 16 years working experience out of which 5 years should be in the field of Environment. Scientist - C in Zoological Survey Of India : 17 posts (SC-02, ST-01,OBC-05, UR-09), Pay scale : Rs. 10000- 15200/-, Qualification : Master’s degree in Science in Zoology or equivalent from a recognized University with 3 years research experience in Zoology with special reference to Systematic, Morphology and Ecology of animals. Scientist - C in Ministry of Environment & Fo

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So Much For Global Warming...Temperature Tied To SunspotsA San Francisco-based scientist says that current solar activity strongly indicates that the earth is on the verge of a new ice age."Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh," warns Phil Chapman writing in The Australian. Chapman is a geophysicist and astronautical engineer who was the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut."Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming," he explains, "the average temperature on earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.Chapman wrote that the global warming dogma should be put aside, "at least to begin contingen

CHICAGO – Chicago’s John Cusack will play a mad scientist’s hunchbacked lab assistant in the animated feature film “Igor” from The Weinstein Company. Igor’s greatest aspiration is to win a first-place prize at an annual evil science fair. The film also features voice talent from Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, Eddie Izzard, Molly Shannon, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Jennifer Coolidge and James Lipton (who plays himself). “Igor” is slated for release on Sept. 19, 2008. The official teaser poster for the film was released on Thursday and can be viewed below. Our interview with Cusack on the film “Grace is Gone” can be listened to here. Teaser poster art for “Igor” with John Cusack from The Weinstein Company. View a high-resolution version here.Image credit: The Weinstein Co

Salt water can indeed burn when exposed to a certain kind of radio wave, a university chemist has confirmed.Rustum Roy of Pennsylvania State University verified earlier this month that the radio waves break the water into its components, allowing the resulting freed hydrogen and oxygen to catch fire.Independent scientists said the phenomenon is credible as explained, though practical applications of the technology remain uncertain and it's unlikely to be a source of cheap energy.

By Brian Thompson I. The Setup With all the polygamy in the news lately, you’d think creepy cults would be all the rage. Why go to the office every day and pretend to work while you watch people fail at ineptly planned physical stunts? If there’s anything I learned from watching American Beauty (other than the fact that plastic bags are both environmentally disastrous and utterly beautiful to the emotionally stunted) it’s that the 9 to 5 life is, like, prison, man. Better to sit in your garage all day smoking the neighbor’s pot and lusting after your teenage daughter’s freakishly bird-like friend. However, the one downside to living an Oscar-winning life of leisure (aside from being murdered by your Nazi, gun-loving, closeted homosexual, ludicrously unbelievable stereotype of

‘John Wheeler, the US physicist who coined the term “black hole”, has died at the age of 96′ He died at his New Jersey home on 13 April of pneumonia, his daughter said. Involved in the Manhattan project that developed the world’s first atomic bomb, Wheeler was one of Albert Einstein’s last collaborators. Wheeler, who was for many [...]

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The earth is doomed unless we do more to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Head of the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, James Hansen, told the EU that their 550 parts per million of C02 was simply not good enough, and should be slashed down to 350 ppm.  Europe’s 550 ppm target is already the world’s most rigorous, with countries like the US and China not even coming close to this figure.  Hansen is convinced that levels need to be drastically reduced if, "humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed". The new figure of 350 ppm is a number that scientists have developed after dredging up large amounts of muddy crap from the bottom of the ocean to study the levels of Co2 present in it. Wh

By Brian Thompson I. The Setup What is it about one-named entertainers and lasting appeal? How many more years can Madonna coast by with her “I’m just trying to find myself” schtick? Did you see her on the cover of Rolling Stone? I could have sworn she was left for dead somewhere around the turn of the century-bleeding in a ditch somewhere with a mangled cowboy hat over her face and her hands clutching that guitar she so desperately wanted to learn to play. But now she’s back, like some undead ghoul that pretends to be surprised at how sexy she still looks at 50. For the record, plenty of women are still sexy at 50. Just look at Helen Mirren. The examples are too numerous to count. What the hell is ALF still doing popping up on talk shows? Shouldn’t th

Science Daily has reported that Dr David Bickford, the lead scientist at the Department of Biological Sciences, NUS, has discovered the world's first lungless frog in Borneo."We knew that we would have to be very lucky just to find the frog," said David Bickford of the National University of Singapore. "People have been trying for 30 years. But when we did and I was doing the initial dissections -- right there in the field -- I have to say that I was very skeptical at first [that they would in fact lack lungs]. It just did not seem possible. We were all shocked when it turned out to be true for all the specimens we had from Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Reaching out to the copy crisis team at the Robert Moses Middle School in NY where symptoms of the strange, contagious disease affecting school photocopy machines and contributing to global warming were first discovered and offering to ...

"Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, James Hansen, seen here, NASA's top climate scientist says"[via physorg]

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By Brian Thompson I. The Setup There’s a machine nearing the final stages of construction which, when activated, will destroy our planet. No, Lex Luthor has nothing to do with it. Gorilla Grodd’s involvement hasn’t been confirmed, but there have been several unexplained banana peels spotted around the construction site. You’d think that a doomsday device like this would be built in secret by a team of red jumpsuit-wearing henchmen. Perhaps you might find it buried near the Earth’s core or in geosynchronous orbit above the dark side of the moon. You definitely wouldn’t expect to find it right out in the open near Geneva, Switzerland. Those people are supposed to be neutral! What are they doing teaming up with the Legion of Doom? Tags: Amateu

The journals of political science are notorious for ignoring the pardon power - state and federal. But a political scientist at the University of Alabama who has studied state and local government and federalism is making a pardon prediction. According to TimesDaily.Com :University of Alabama political scientist William Stewart, who attended much of [former Alabama Governor Don] Siegelman’s trial, said he expects Siegelman will be free for a number of months because of the length and complexity of the appeal. He said he believes Siegelman could avoid going back to prison if either Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama is elected.“He’ll be out for a long time and may never go back. If he’s out until January and we elect Clinton or Obama, I expect he will

Baking is a science where measurements are very important. Sometimes, friends will say to me, "I made this recipe for bread and it didn't work." I start asking questions to find out more about why it didn't work and it turns out that they substituted whole wheat flour for all-purpose flour. That may or may not be the only reason it didn't work (because there are a lot of factors that affect bread) but when you use whole wheat flour, you often need more water so you can't just use the same recipe that's made for all-purpose flour. It will also certainly taste and feel different.I'm not saying that you can never substitute or don't experiment but start to think about baking as chemistry and you will see the difference. Here's an extremely helpful guide for baking substitutions, from The Joy

Forget old-news solar-power shingles: a team from Swansea in the UK have found a way of creating solar "panel" paint. A by-product of their research into degrading paint on steel surfaces, their invention is applied in layers to steel cladding, and converts a gentle 5% of inbound solar energy to electricity. Sounds like not much, until you multiply it up over the surface area of a building. It seems like a great eco-friendly idea, especially when you consider project leader Dave Worsley's figures: if just one manufacturer made all their steel cladding energy-producing, it would have the same generator capacity as 50 wind farms. Admittedly it's more "paint your warehouse" than "paint your home", since few of us have steel walls or roofs on our abode, but it's still pretty nifty. The techn

. . . actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down.

Case #030 - Easter I. The Setup No holiday taxes the young amateur scientist’s sense of credulity more than Easter. First of all, it’s supposed to be a celebration of a virgin-born demigod’s miraculous resurrection from the dead. The only being of celestial pedigree that could ever realistically conquer the inevitable scythe of mortality is Superman-and even that was obviously a stunt to boost sales. Who knows how many more early converts the Christian church might have had if they’d dragged out Jesus’ mourning period as an epic “Funeral for a Friend” crossover? And imagine how much more entertaining the New Testament would have been if it had included a book on the Reign of the Christs. The marketing possibilities of cyborg Jesus alone could

El título es una obvia referencia al libro de Richard Dawkins cuyo título original es "The God Delusion", traducido en el mercado español como "El espejismo de Dios". Es, también, el título de un artículo de David Goldston que se publicó en Nature hace una semana. En él comenta una conferencia impartida por el cosmólogo Rocky Kolb y titulada algo así como "La cosmología en el mundo hace 1000 años (y hoy en Kansas)". Aparte de la broma, Goldston propone que los científicos infravaloramos la receptividad del público a la ciencia así como el poder de los lobbies religiosos a la hora de plantar batalla en el falso debate evolución vs creacionismo. El argumento central de Goldston es que el rechazo a la ciencia no es tan real como parece en los EE.UU. Reconoce que entre un 40-50

The New Scientist published an article today on an interesting evolution in online gambling fraud-prevention tactics: the development of a robust player profile, or DNA, that tracks tendencies and alerts a system to deviation from those established patterns. Excerpt from the story: To ensure a human, and the correct human at that, is playing, Roman Yampolskiy of [...]

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Bernard is one of the rare breed of scientists that possesses the charisma to get people really excited about his projects, even if they really are ridiculous. As a matter of fact, he actually secured a $50,000 grant for a vampire research project. If you are able to get over the fact that vampires are not [...]

This picture shows the location of the "Rocky Belt" which shows the moon was once split.The Story Behind:The unbelievers of Makkah said to the Prophet (P.B.U.H) that if you are truly a Prophet, split the moon and if you do we shall believe. It was full moon that night...And so the Prophet (P.B.U.H) prayed to Allah to grant Him this miracle, and the moon was split. Half was seen over Mount. Saffa, and the other half was seen over Mount. Kaikaan.The people said that the Prophet (P.B.U.H) has placed a spell on us, however if he played a trick on us, the he cant play a trick on all the people in the world! Abu Jahl (another unbeliever of Makkah) then said: "Let us wait until the people of Albadiah come, and if they saw the moon split, than it is true, if not then we all know it was a trick of

For those of you who like to lift the veil on music and our understanding of it, you might fancy sourcing a copy of the latest issue of New Scientist magazine as they are doing a music special for this month. If you don’t fancy shelling out then you can see one of the articles [...]

Ian McEwan, Scientist -Britannica Blog: Here's what J.E. Luebering writes in the Britannica Blog about author Ian MacEwan's aversion to literary theory. I think the writer is seeking to earn cheap... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!

Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called consensus on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.Many of the scientists featured in this report consistently stated that numerous colleagues shared their views, but they will not speak out publicly for fear of retribution. Atmospheric scientist Dr. Nathan Paldor, Professor of Dynamical Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of almost 70 peer-reviewed studies, explains how many of his fellow scientists have been

12 December 2007Magazine issue 2633Ecotourism, sometimes criticised as the voyeuristic indulgence of rich first-worlders, really does benefit the environment and the people who live in protected areas. A review of four marine conservation initiatives shows that they have helped reduce poverty and created tourism-based jobs, says Craig Leisher of Nature Conservancy, an environmental group in Arlington, Virginia.The report, Nature's Investment Bank, co-authored by Leisher and published on 29 November, is based on interviews with more than 1000 people in four recently protected marine zones in Fiji, Indonesia, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands. In every case, the conservation schemes had boosted fish catches and helped create new jobs.'In some sites, the scale of improvement was dramati

This holiday season, I thought I’d do something a little different from the weekly myth bashing (unfortunately, myth busting is copyrighted) and recount a true Christmas story in which the scientific method served me well. (more…) Previous in series | ShareThis Tags: Amateur Scientist, christmas

Coldplay tiene su origen en la University of London, allá por 1996. Dos estudiantes, Chris Martin y Jon Buckland, planearon formar una banda durante todo un año. Pronto se unirían a ellos Guy Berryman y Will Champion y empezarían a tocar en pequeños locales de Camden, suburbio de Sydney.En un principio tocaban bajo el nombre de "Starfish" pero pronto cambiaron a "Coldplay", idea de Tim Rice-Oxley, amigo de uno de los integrantes. A Tim se le ofreció formar parte del grupo como pianista, pero por entonces ya estaba totalmente implicado en su proyecto Keane.Chris decide hablar con Phil Harvey para que trabaje como mánager del grupo, con el objetivo de conseguir fondos para la grabación de su primer álbum. De esta manera los miembros de la banda pueden dedicarse exclusivamente a su música. Poco a poco van creciendo económicamente y consiguen publicar un primer EP, titulado Safety. Solo se graban 500 copias, de las cuales la mayoría son regaladas a amigos, familiares y compañÃ

Waste management is not just an urban phenomenon that must be tackled by each city’s administration. It calls for individual initiatives too. That’s the message Pune-based Anand Karve, director of the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) wants to spread.To enable this to happen, Karve has found a process. “A family of five persons would require a four feet wide plastic tank of 1,000 litres, which would need to be fed with kitchen waste of one kilogram every day to generate methane gas. A tank of this size would cost Rs 9,000. The gas generated through this method can be piped into the kitchen and there would be no further need to depend on LPG,” he explains.read more | digg storyTags: Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI), waste management, methane gas, LPG, Pune,

I. The Setup My friend Baxter shoved a printed out photo of a gas station and a blue smudge in my face. “It’s a ghost,” he said, spewing crumbs from his mouthful of Oreos (stolen from me, by the way). I tossed it back to him with a quick exhalation, as if to say “I don’t care about your distant relatives, so would you please let me get back to watching Saved by the Bell: The College Years?”. Zack and Slater were getting into some kind of trouble, only in college this time. (more…) Related PostsPresidential Geek Survey Diary - Day 117Pink Raygun Gallery Image 008 - Tori BrenneisonSerenity Blue Sun Travel Company Poster Set Tags: gas station ghost

For more than 50 years antibiotics, such as penicillin, have been the ammunition in war against a rogues gallery of scourges from tonsillitis to typhoid fever. Recently, however, antibiotics have begun to lose their mojo.read more | digg story

I. The Setup I once asked my mother why she chose to make the annual Thanksgiving green bean casserole with only the cheapest and nastiest canned ingredients. My neighbor’s mother was a gourmet chef, and her green bean casserole included fresh vegetables and exotic spices with names other than “salt”. Of course, my bitching only served to shore up my mother’s hatred of the neighbors. They were already hippies from up north who had the nerve to slap Democratic candidates’ bumper stickers on their minivan. At least in those elections where some bright eyed, idealistic Democrat even chose to run. (more…) Related PostsAsk an Amateur Scientist: Vaccines and AutismPresidential Geek Survey Diary - Day 136Presidential Geek Survey Diary - Day 117

Dear Dr. Scientist,If the world is shaped like a ball, how come we’re not upside down? B. Specky Dear Mr. Specky, Because we’re on top of the ball; the Chinese are upside down. Dear Dr. Scientist, When mommy says “don’t let the bed bugs bite” every night; how am I supposed to stop them? And how can I keep my welts from itching? Pooh Dear Pooh, The chemical compound hydrochloric acid is the aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride gas. It is a potent acid, the major component of gastric acid and of wide industrial use. It should eliminate the bugs as well as the itching. In fact, nothing will be left, including your arm. This could produce lethal fumes; open a window before your arm falls off. Dear Dr. Scientist, Why do ghosts come out of my toilet after I sit on it? Sock Puppet Dear Sock Puppet, Were you playing with a ouija board while eating prunes or commercial laxatives? You have what we scientists refer to as “etherealus excrementalus fecalium phantasmus.” Place 12 voti

Click here to listen to Sir David King talk about climate change and how to tackle it. He says that the only way out is a binding international agreement by 2009. Carbon has to get a price tag and there has to be caps on how much may be emitted. A linear decrease in carbon for big emitters is essential.

Ok, this week has been a bad week in the lab so far. A few weeks ago I wrote a post describing 15 reasons to be a scientist. Today I am in the mood to cross over to the dark side and give you 10 reasons NOT to be a scientist! Strangely I could only think of 10. If you have any more, please feel free to add them in the comments section below. (more…)

We Are Scientists drummer Michael Tapper has handed in his Bunsen Burner and ill-fitting white lab coat in a decision that seemingly comes out of nowhere. I hadn’t even heard rumors about any animosity between the trio of musicians, but the band released a statement saying he would be leaving ”to pursue other things.” What the hell does that mean?

Dr. Scientist,Where do babies come from?TimmyDear Timmy,Certainly not from storks! We find them under cabbages.Dear Doctor Science,What exactly are earthworms? I think they are gross.NatalieDear Natalie, Earthworms are actually living independent entrails. In prehistoric times, a species of fish crawled upon the land, and was immediately devoured by a pterodactyl. The remains of the fish—it's intestines—remained on land and survived, and have since been known as the worm.Dear Dr. Science,My momma told me that if I don’t pick up my toys, a monster will come out from under my bed and eat me. Is that true?Jo JoDear Jo Jo,Yes.Dr. Science,I am going on a long vacation and I can't bring my cats with me. What is the best way to store cats safely for three-months?PhilbertDear Philbert,The best way to store your cats safely for extended periods is to pack them in mothballs. The proper ratio is 1 mothball for every 500 cats.Dear doktor Sients,Why duz my sippy cup not werk?GünterDear G

Scientists have altered the brain gene of some female worms, and have managed to make them go lesbian. This scientific research comes from the Brain Institute of the University of Utah. The director of the study, Erik Jorgensen, states that the results of this study “suggests sexual behavior is encoded in our genes”. The study in no way defines human sexuality or its many complexities, but it is interesting. Source: [Environmental Graffiti] All Natural, animals, nature, science, the environment

For centuries, the "Mona Lisa" has beguiled art buffs unable to resist speculating on its origins and meaning. Now a French inventor claims to have some answers, including the fate of the enigmatic subject's famously missing eyebrows and lashes. Parisian engineer Pascal Cotte says his ultra-detailed digital scans of the painting allow him to effectively burrow through layers of paint to "see" into the past of Leonardo Da Vinci's 16th-century portrait of a Florentine merchant's wife. The world's most famous painting originally included both brows and lashes, according to Parisian engineer Pascal Cotte, who says his 240-megapixel scans of the painting reveal traces of Mona Lisa's left brow, obliterated by long-ago restoration efforts. "With just one photo you go deeper into the construction of the painting and understand that Leonardo was a genius," Cotte said at the U.S. debut of an exhibit detailing his findings. As a boy growi

Flamm wrote, "This may be the first time in history that all three authors of a randomized, controlled study have been found guilty of fraud, deception, and/or plagiarism." That's the statement that Dr. Cha alleges is defamatory, ...