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Posted in Health, Oddities, Psychology on Apr 24th, 2008
Here’s the rather enticing headline from Fox today:
Study: Masturbation May Prevent Prostate Cancer
Now, this is great news for me. I won’t go into a lot of detail as to why. Let’s just say I”m not a high-prostate cancer risk according to that study. However, that study is more the point of this post than the [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Weather on Apr 21st, 2008
Here’s the problem:
That’s a really big La Nina. It’s shrinking, but not very quickly. It’s persisted for a year and looks like it’s going to be around a little longer. It’s going to mess with our weather one more year.
Here’s the bigger issue. Why do we even have a La Nina to worry about in [...]
Posted in Earth on Apr 18th, 2008
Woke up this morning to have Mrs. Moon inform me we had an earthquake. As with the 1974 tornadoes, I slept through it
However, my research tells me I missed a 2.8 here. Not too shabby considering it was 5.2 295 miles away.
Next time, I’d prefer to have some excitement NOT in the middle [...]
Posted in The Internet on Apr 16th, 2008
Wow. What a vision this guy has:
“The medium is the message, and the medium has invaded our home and taken over our minds. The really scary part is how hypnotic it is. The ‘Net is so pervasive that kids are on it all day.”
Sonnenfeld fears that children today will grow up with “no concept of [...]
Posted in Earth, Global Warming, The Solar System, The Universe on Apr 15th, 2008
A team of Japanese astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton, along with NASA and Japanese X-ray satellites, has discovered that our galaxy’s central black hole let loose a powerful flare three centuries ago.
The article then goes on to do what articles, and most usually scientists, do in general. They dig deeper and deeper into the why’s, what’s, [...]
Posted in Travel on Apr 11th, 2008
Sir Richard Branson is doing everything he can to develop and promote his Virgin space tours. Great concept I think. I’d be all over that idea if it weren’t for one pesky problem:
That is just man-made junk circling around the Earth. Now, NASA has a good billion dollar system for mitigating where those things are [...]
Posted in Technology on Apr 11th, 2008
As oil prices skyrocket, this has motivated investors to look at ideas that were just too expensive not long ago. Case in point, the Bakken Formation in northwest US has held all kinds of oil that people have known about for a long, long, time. Problem was, it’s not the gushing pools of oil people [...]
Posted in Silly science on Apr 7th, 2008
Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who has possibly the longest name in Congress, and who represents California, which is a very long name as well, has taken their comfort level with very long words to the next level by proposing the Office of Potentially Hazardous Near-Earth Object Preparedness, as part of the Near Earth Objects Preparedness Act. Now, [...]