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Posted in Health on Oct 31st, 2006
It’s that time of the year again. The days are shorter, the weather’s colder, and I, along with a lot of people, just go into a funk. However, there is a suggestion on how to deal with the winter blahs. It’s pretty simple actually:
Eat.
According to this report, eating certain foods can make you happy. Now, [...]
Posted in Global Warming on Oct 30th, 2006
Britain wants tighter limits on greenhouse gases by Europe and other rich countries as a first step toward establishing a global carbon trading system to help reduce the cost of climate change.
The main argument of a British report published on Monday is that the benefits of determined worldwide steps to tackle global warming will massively [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Oct 27th, 2006
I swear, I have never even heard of 2001 - A Space Travesty. After watching this trailer, I now must have it. As funny as it seems as it is, I imagine true fans of 2001 - A Space Odyssey will enjoy it that much more. Not entirely safe for work, but I don’t think [...]
Posted in Travel on Oct 24th, 2006
I have had some nightmare stories about being delayed on airlines. Some went on for as much as eight hours. I got real grumpy every time. So, imagine trying to deal with this:
In 1992 Christer Fuglesang was chosen as a crew member of the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, which is [...]
Posted in People on Oct 24th, 2006
"Very few people have analyzed the insides of this new space policy. I urge all of you who are interested in space to analyze it very carefully. It has the potential, down the road, to create the [same] kind of fuzzy thinking and chaos in our efforts to exploit the space resource as the fuzzy [...]
Posted in Health on Oct 24th, 2006
A recent study done by the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology indicates men who use their cell phone more than four hours a day have significantly lower sperm counts than men who don’t use their cell phone at all. They’re not sure why that is.
I have an idea.
If you’re sitting on your butt talking [...]
Posted in Oddities on Oct 19th, 2006
Ever seen a Shuttle up close? I have, they’re BIG! Ever watch a launch on tv or live? It’s all consuming. However, bet you never saw a Shuttle launch from this angle:
Puts things in a different perspective, huh?
( Got a minor update, although I don’t mention it, the original captions were that these pictures [...]
Posted in Health on Oct 18th, 2006
Here’s the story:
The teenager said the stabbing pains in her face felt like electrical shocks that lasted 10 to 30 seconds and struck 20 to 30 times a day. Her doctors diagnosed trigeminal neuralgia, a nerve disorder sometimes called “suicide disease” because of the excruciating and dispiriting pain it causes.
Doctors tried painkillers, then stronger [...]
Posted in Silly science, The Solar System on Oct 13th, 2006
In ancient times, people thought comets were the precursor to some horrid event:
There’s really no evidence that the above depiction ever occurred, but it pretty well summed up the fears at the time. It was pretty much a global thing. Over time, about 3,000 years or so, man came to realize, for the most part, [...]
Posted in Technology on Oct 13th, 2006
This is just way too cool:
The days of attacking aliens with a joystick could soon be over thanks to a breakthrough technique where a teenager played Space Invaders using only signals from his brain.
With a technique that takes data from the surface of the brain, a 14-year-old boy from St. Louis was able to [...]