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The Internet is a Mirror…

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Hermit Tarot Card
Hermit
Tarot Card

I test out INTJ (Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging) on the Myers and Briggs personality test, meaning I’m like Isaac Newton, Niels Bohr, and Ada Lovelace. My Riso-Hudson Type Indicator ranks me as Thinker(8), Peacemaker(6), Reformer(4), Skeptic(4), Artist(4), Motivator(4), Helper(3), Generalist(3), Leader(0). I am the Hermit Tarot Card.

According to the Are You a Scientist? quiz, where I got 19/20, I should be involved in the sciences, and am “the original mad scientist!” According to the Nerd Test, I am “Dorky Nerd King,” but I’m practicing to beat that score.


Dorky Nerd King

Dorky Nerd King

If I were a superhero would be Spider-Man, mostly for being geeky (Superman was a close second). I am science fiction author Gregory Benford “A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist.”

I have the emotional maturity of a 25-year-old. I am zero percent evil.


I am Angelic

I am Angelic

According to The Cadaver Calculator, my dead body is worth $5,225!!! My body could feed 14 Cannibals. I have a 100% chance of surviving a house cat attack, here’s a breakdown of my Surviving other Animal attacks:

House Cat 100%
Racoon 100%
Coyote 100%
Medium Sized Dog 100%
Large Dog 100%
Wolf 100%
Small Shark 93%
Large Shark 75%
Predetory Cat 100%
Elephant 97%
Lion or Tiger 93%
Bear 90%
Alligator 78%
Gorilla 82%
Human 100%

How did people know anything about themselves before the Internet?

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Science Etcetera, Venusday 20080711

Friday, July 11th, 2008
  • Happy Fair Use Day!!!
  • Evolutionary Algorithm for Decryption of Monoalphabetic Homophonic Substitution Ciphers Encoded as Constraint Satisfaction Problems applies cipher solutions to the Zodiac serial killer’s unsolved encrypted message.

  • EADMHSCECSP

    EADMHSCECSP
    Credit: Oranchak
  • Japanese scientists have made a DNA sewing machine.
  • Before Hellboy, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), which included Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov, was taking on the paranormal since 1976.
  • MIT has invented a window coating that collects energy.
  • The VBLOC is an implant that blocks signals between the brain and stomach, quelling hunger pains and promoting weight loss.
  • Louisiana essentially legalizes teaching ID in Science Classrooms.
  • Our overuse of fertilizers fuel red tides of algae, which produce airborne cancer-causing toxins.

  • Red algal bloom at Leigh, near Cape Rodney

    Red algal bloom at Leigh, near Cape Rodney
    Credit: Miriam Godfrey
  • Changes in subterranean rocks observed hours before an earthquake may mean predicting them is in our near future.
  • A company has a solution to the lack of hydrogen pumps to refuel hydrogen cars, set up your own pump at home.
  • Senator Barbara Boxer is demanding the White House stop its cover up of Global Warming dangers.
  • Another way for NASA to find rock-eating microbes on Mars.
  • A new survey finds that previously media-shy scientists are finding benefits to working with journalists.
  • Clever Planet Green Commercial: