Category Archives: Science

I Crashed An International Symposium on Global Warming and All I Got Was This Stupid Hole in the Ground

I’m not going to go into detail lest I endanger the job of the concierge who let me slip in the door (or, rather, fell for the line I fed him), but I really did. I slipped through the doors of the conference center and hung out for a day with a host of brilliant [...]

Fear of Lemons and Other Tales of Unnecessary Risk Avoidance

First, watch this video, if you dare: Now here’s my take: This is all very interesting… but I’m not going to stop with the lemon slices because frankly, if this is true, my body could use the disease causing bacteria. Seriously. The immune systems of astronauts crash after so many days in space. It’s because [...]

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

After probably 10 years of having a Palm PDA in my pocket, I’m quitting. It’s not so much any kind of idealism, or some kind of neo-ludditeism. I don’t think that the Palms available now have the integrity of product that they had when I first got one. The first Palm I owned was a [...]

Meantime, in Universe Prime 307A, Where the Cleveland Indians Defeated the Boston Red Sox in Game 5 of the Playoffs…

Here are some recent links to things I found interesting of late, which may or may not be connected. It just depends on which Universe you live in. Reasons the Indians Lost. I’m not much of a sports fan, professional sports even less so. I do like LaCrosse, which combines all the best parts of [...]

This is How it All Starts

Okay, so I’m at the fair last week, and somewhere along the line, either in the Men’s room or one of the Port-O-Lets, I notice the writing on the dispenser of hand sanitizer that now appears everywhere. It says, kills 99.99% of all household germs!. And I’m thinking, yeah, but it’s that other .01% you [...]

Some Inconvenient Facts

“The man is an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but feel unable to state publicly) that his propaganda crusade is mostly based on junk science.” That’s Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia, talking about Al Gore and his [...]

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