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  • My Faith in Ira Flatow has Not Improved

    Ira Flatow responded to my friend’s request on Facebook (still denied), after I wrote to him back in September explaining my obsession with collecting Science exponents on social networking sites and singing their praises when they add me. This was his response: To Ira’s credit, he did actually click the link to my blog. To…

  • Steve Milloy’s Ultimate Global Warming Challenge

    LOL Steve Milloy Steve “JunkScience” Milloy, who in addition to his Faux News paycheck, receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tobacco industry to assure Faux viewers that second-hand smoke is a myth and cancer links to cigarettes are overblown, has issued an Ultimate Global Warming Challenge. $125,000 will be awarded to the first…

  • Daylight Savings Time Software Glitches

    My cell phone has been waking me up an hour early all week because it thinks that Daylight Savings Time (DST) began last weekend. I can’t change the time because it’s managed by Cingular, so it’s the fault of their systems. Several local banks in Elizabeth City are broadcasting the incorrect time as well. This…

  • Dr. Kirsten H. Sanford’s on my Facebook!

    Food Science with Dr. Kiki Sanford No wonder my mom says I’m cool. Doctor Kirsten (“Kiki”) H. Sanford, Ph.D hosts this week in science radio show and podcast, authors The Bird’s Brain blog, co-created the Unicorn Museum website brilliantly parodying the Creation Museum, and stars in the totally ass-kicking anything-goes culinary ninja videoblog Food Science,…

  • Blackwater Public Forum

    Blackwater Satellite Photo: 36.27 N 76.12W I live just 30 minutes south of the Blackwater Training Center, the company which has been in the news much of late for killing Iraqi civilians. Locals here in North Eastern North Carolina overwhelmingly support Blackwater, which is one of the area’s largest employers (600 locals), against the charges.…

  • Mystic Aquarium, Haley Farm Park, and Port Discover

    From My Recent Visit to Connecticut Beluga Whale at the Mystic Aquarium In addition to Penguin Contact, Ray Touch Pool, and Beluga Whale Contact programs, the Aquarium hosts an impressive Marine Animal Rescue Program, with Seal Rescue Clinic. The rays felt surprisingly silky when I got the opportunity to touch one, and the beluga whales…

  • Truth

    The Truth is Out There “What is Truth?” Pontius Pilate famously asked Jesus (John 18:38). This is the Truth Doing my part for the Truth Web Experiment. To which I’ve suggested adding: Humans are Apes.

  • National Mole Day

    Happy Mole Day!!! On the 23rd of October from 6:02 AM to 6:02 PM (6:02 10/23) is National Mole Day, a day of appreciation for chemistry and Avogadro’s Number (6.02 x 10^23), the basic measuring unit in chemistry. A Mole is simply an amount of substance, like a dozen. It is based on the number…

  • Ira Flatow Doesn’t Get Social Networking

    Ira Flatow Ira Flatow, host of NPR’s Science Friday has denied my request to be added as his friend on both MySpace and Facebook. That’s okay. I didn’t wanna be Ira Flatow’s friend anyhow. He’s a big stupid dummy head. Ira’s new book is called Present at the Future. Phooey! Why would I read about…

  • Moving Mountains to Overcome Cultural Stasis

    Querty VS Dvorak Keyboard layouts… The Metric System… Base number systems… Where to sneeze… I’ve been wrestling with a lot of obsolete cultural artifacts in the last few weeks. All of these subjects are examples of society adhering to overly-complex, inefficient, or just plain wrong cultural standards. We make life complicated for a our children…

  • Child Health Month: Cough and Sneeze into your Sleeve!

    October 1st is Child Health Day, but the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), once made quiet an effort to make the whole month of October mindful of Children’s Health issues. October is a great month for educational initiatives as children have settled into the school-routine and are still fresh in the academic year. In honor…

  • The Nobel Prizes 2007

    The Nobel Peace Prize Congratulations to Al Gore and the entire Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for wining the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” This makes…