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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…

  • 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,…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Powers of 10 Day

    Today is Powers of 10 Day, 10/10/2007, which is a famous film made by Charles and Ray Eames in 1977 that takes the viewer from a picnic scene, off of Earth, out of the Solar System, galaxy, and into deep space. It’s a film concept that has been often repeated in films like Men in…

  • Review of “In the Shadow of the Moon”

    Got to check out this inspiring documentary last week, just in time for the 50th anniversary of Sputnik 1. The film wisely skips the Cold War dimensions of the Space Race, an historical context today’s generation can’t really relate to, and probably shouldn’t bother to considering the U.S.S.R. turned out to be a paper tiger.…

  • 50th Anniversary of Sputnik

    “The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.” – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky When I was a toddler, my parents lived in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Cape Canaveral was just 70 miles south of us. From there, we could watch NASA’s rocket launches from our balcony. I can vaguely remember…

  • An Age of Science

    The Awesome Phylotaxis Seed Portal Seed Magazine, probably the most philosophical of science periodicals, has Announced the Winners for it’s essay contest on the topic of Science Literacy. I do need to take a moment to agree with this complaint about Seed’s failure to acknowledge submissions being pretty rude; with that being said, I did…

  • BBC’s Walking With Dinosaurs, The Live Experience

    Tyrannosaurus Rex would have eaten Noah When I was in high school I went to a monster truck rally on a lark, and was so blown away with excitement that I actually bought a Grave Digger hat, and have been a secret fan of monster trucks ever since. This despite the fact that they usually…