Scientists Baffled
If you pay attention to science news, you may have noticed this sort of headline: “Scientists Shocked” or “Scientists Baffled.” The teaser headline leads you to a heroic story of hero scientists...
View ArticleSmoking, it’s all good.
The Hawaiian Libertarian drops a big post on the whole smoking is bad for you thing. I don’t know what would piss off Mrs. Buckethead more – me continuing to smoke, or continuing to smoke and...
View ArticleStuff!
Gary Taubes, author of the life-changing (for me, at any rate) book Good Calories, Bad Calories now has a blog, and a new book coming out this month – Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It. That...
View ArticlePlasma Focus Fusion
Instapundit linked this item – Compact Fusion Experiment Demonstrates Confinement of 100 keV (Billion-Degree) Ions in Dense Plasma which is indeed cool news: In a breakthrough in the effort to achieve...
View ArticleWhat Would Feynman Do?
Effing hilarious. I can’t really excerpt, you have to read the whole thing, as the effect is cumulative. [wik]: I was startled, when I actually opened the link in a browser, at how ugly the page is. I...
View ArticleLinkalicious – science edition
Discovered Locklin on Science a little while ago, and I’ve been trolling through his archives. Found several gems – Spotting Vaporware, Nano Nonsense, The Airship: An Aesthetic Appreciation, The...
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Oh, ramp on the inside
Now this makes more sense than a barrel full of sensible stuff. People have been arguing about how those crazy Egyptians built the pyramids for, literally, thousands of years. Now some French dude...
View ArticlePlaying with a new toy
Found a thing called ifttt – If this, then that. It glues interweb thingies together. So far, I set up a task to mirror all my Google+ posts to my Facebook wall. I set up a task to automatically add...
View ArticleThe real neo-feudalism
It is a commonplace that the advance of technology killed the Feudal age. The cost of training, equipping and supporting the Medieval knight was large, relative to the economic output of the era. And...
View ArticleScience!
Some science-flavored links for your enjoyment: Viruses make you gay Nothing at all might make you a gay cat lady Ice Age or bust! Given a choice of civilization-ending climate calamities, I’d prefer...
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