As if I needed any justification, here is SCIENTIFIC PROOF that being a crankypants is GOOD for you.
Meanwhile, Improbable Research.com, the same people who present the IgNobel Prizes (and who did NOT give an award to Barack Obama this year), looked into the question “Is Kansas flatter than a pancake?” and have come up with irrefutable SCIENTIFIC proof! You won’t see stuff like this on MythBusters, lemme tell ya. (Mostly because it doesn’t involve anything blowing up.)
“Dammit Jim! I’m a doctor not a….oh, wait… Barack Obama will probably cancel funding for further testing of the Ares rocket (here’s the video of the most-recent test, in case you missed it), but even if NASA does get to continue with preparations for sending a manned mission to Mars, they may not be able to overcome a newly-discovered hurdle: long-term spaceflight puts astronauts at greater risk for developing diseases.
And this story made the rounds the other day: naked mole rats do not get cancer. But they still go through life looking like giant, self-propelling penises with claws and teeth, so that’s a pretty fair tradeoff.
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT.
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Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and [...]
Thanks to Shelley for alerting me that last night’s edition of the local TV newsmagzine “Chronicle” featured Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein, whom I blogged about recently in conjunction with the various atheist billboard campaigns around the country. I was busy helping Charlotte do her homework, so I didn’t watch the show, but WCVB’s [...]
Update to yesterday’s post about boiled eggs:
The picture at the top is what I got by boiling two eggs in 180-degree-ish water for 6 minutes. Sorry for the so-so photo, I only had my cell phone handy.
The eggs were indeed nicely done. The cooked ring of egg white was consistent in its thickness [...]
