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  • Is It Life Yet?

    Stem Cells Life? Sperm and Egg Not Life? So I’m mulling the news that scientists hope to harvest stem cells from testicles. Beyond the way this new development makes me squeak with fear and cross my legs protectively, it’s also muddling my mind with cognitive dissonance trying to understand why harvesting stem cells from someone’s…

  • BA-BAM! Chris Mooney’s on My Facebook!

    My nefarious plot for global domination of the InterWebbies continues! Behold! I have added Chris Mooney (pronounced (deep voice) “MOOOOOOOOOOO-NEYYYYY!!!!”) to my Facebook profile of doom! The Republican War on Science Author of The Republican War on Science, the most important book yet published in promoting public awareness of the Bush administration’s pathological interference in…

  • Bora Zivkovic is on My Facebook B!#@$s!!!

    Bora Zivkovic on Facebook This is like collecting sports cards, only scientists!!! Ha! Ha! Time to sell the comic book collection, I’ve found a new hobby. Bora Zivkovic runs A Blog Around the Clock, works as the “Online Community Manager” at Public Library of Science (PLoS-ONE), one of the two main organizers for the annual…

  • Black is the New Black

    I couldn’t take it anymore. Yes, I know white text on black background really cheeses off some people, but I find it easier on the eyes once the pupils open up and adjust to the diminished brightness. I tend to agree with the reasoning that black text on a white background works on paper because…

  • The Buckminster Fuller Challenge

    “Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?” – Buckminster Fuller American Pavilion’s Geodesic Dome Image Courtesy of Library and Archives Canada The Buckminster Fuller Institute begins accepting submissions for its Buckminster Fuller Challenge today through October 30th, 2007. …seeks submissions of design science solutions within…

  • Carl Zimmer’s on MySpace!

    And he added me as friend! w00t!!! I’m totally pwning these InterWebs and stuff! The Carl Zimmer, author of many excellent books that I need to read, and author of The Loom science blog, which has covered such fascinating topics as parasitic wasps that mind-control cockroaches and kick-ass Science Tattoos. Aaaaaand, for the moment, I’m…

  • Saturnday Consumer Awareness : Baby Einstein DVDs Turn Infant Brains into Mush

    I remember a bit of conversation I had with a friend of mine who was a housewife, where I was complaining to her about my job stresses: Gina: I have a pretty stressful job too, you know. Jerkface Me: What job? Oh wait, lemme guess, you’re a mommy??? Ha! Ha! So what? I own two…

  • Jupiterday Diatribe: Pluto is Still a Planet (Still)

    Somehow in all the incredibly complex hubbub of getting this blog set up (ie. figuring out how to post), I completely missed the fact that August 24th was the one-year anniversary of that infamous day when a bunch of dimbulbs at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided to demote Pluto to non-planet status with an…

  • Marsday Speculation: “the world being run by a futuristic computer geek”

    So in case you haven’t heard yet, according to Dr. Nick Bostrom at Oxford University, chances are pretty good that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation. The professor puts our chances of living in a simulation at 20 percent, based on his gut feeling. I agree with the journalist, John Tierney, when he…

  • Moonday Afternoon Adventuring Google Space

    Google Earth: I can see my house from up here. It was a tremendous relief when Elizabeth City finally got scanned into Google Earth. Having this application installed on the Science Center’s computers, it was disheartening to zoom in on the center and find the satellite view blurry and indistinct. Even without Elizabeth City in…