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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, [...]
Posted in SETI, Silly science, The Universe on Mar 10th, 2008
Alpha Centauri has long been speculated as having all kinds of different life forms. Wiki gives a good run-down. Starting in 1944…. Well, here’s a brief list:
In “Far Centaurus” (1944), the classic short story by A. E. van Vogt, an earth crew which travelled at sublight speed in hibernation to Alpha Centauri discover when they arrive that [...]
Posted in Silly science on Jan 15th, 2008
I have gotten this press release in various forms for a few days now:
NEWS RELEASE: 2008-005 Jan. 15, 2008
NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers
At a ceremony held today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips [...]
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Silly science, Technology, The Solar System on Dec 5th, 2007
A couple of weeks or so I posted the Chang’e 1’s picture of the Moon on my Bowie blog because they named their spaceship after a Bowie album. That was about as exciting as I thought the story would get. Here it is again:
I post it again here for a different reason. The story got [...]
Posted in Health, Silly science on Nov 1st, 2007
That’s the headline. Here’s some meat ( yeah, pun intended ):
More than 4,900 men ages 15-44 participated in telephone interviews about their sex lives, including the dates during which they were in sexual relationships in the previous year.
Concurrent sexual relationships were particularly common among these groups:
Unmarried men
Men who had been in prison
Men who [...]
Posted in Anthroplogy, Silly science on Oct 30th, 2007
While heading to lunch I heard a report on one of the news channels that some scientists have come to the conclusion that mankind will split in two in 100,000 years or so. There will be two distinct evolutionary tracts, one pretty, one ugly. The pretty ones will rule the planet.
That’s sort of already true [...]
Posted in Psychology, Silly science, The Internet on Oct 16th, 2007
That is the amazing conclusion the Pew Internet Project came to. I just have to wonder who thought for one second the inverse of their hypothesis could possibly be true, that teenagers not online could possibly get more contacts via the internet than those that are online?
My experience with parenting a very online fourteen year [...]
Posted in Silly science on Oct 4th, 2007
I just read where apparently they have undoubtable proof ( as in they’re stuck together and petrified for eternity ), that lizards have been having threesomes for 175,000,000 years. It doesn’t say how long lizards have been trying to enforce monogamy. But, 175,000,000 years is a long time. I could see getting tired of the [...]
Posted in Psychology, Silly science on Aug 1st, 2007
WebMD tackles the oldest question known to mankind. Why do people have sex? Now, the other relevant questions would be “Why do people breathe” and “Why do people eat food”. The cause and effect of sex is that mankind continues to exist. So, to me, as with food, you don’t need [...]
Posted in Psychology, Silly science on Jul 25th, 2007
Some very intrepid researchers in Norway came to this startling conclusion:
Restaurant-goers are a picky crowd, requiring more than just tasty fare to satisfy them. A new study finds that dirty menus and waiting for the check could be just as critical to a diner’s overall experience.
Now, Livescience found some freaks in New York City who [...]