Who knew people thought a dog was a planet? Pluto Demoted: No Longer a Planet in Highly Controversial Definition By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 24 August 2006 09:35 am ET Capping years of intense debate, astronomers resolved…
Heard this on the radio during the morning commute. Great commentary. —– Commentary: Naturalists By Lee Cullum, KERA 90.1 Commentator DALLAS, TX (2006-08-24)We are so divorced from nature most of the time that it”s startling to meet what once was…
the record store’s where you belong. Go and buy the CD like you know that you should… You don’t want to mess with the RIAA, they’ll sue you if you burn that CDR, it doesn’t matter if you are a grandma…
via http://www.alistreview.com/2006/08/steorn_gets_the_blogosphere_bu.html: Steorn, an Irish technology company, has claimed to have developed “a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy.” They issued a challenge for scientists to test the technology and more than 1300 have taken the bait.From the…
From the ScienceNews Blog, The AP reports that the Pacific Coasts’ “dead zone” has returned. The dead zone was first discovered in 2002. The oxygen-starved “dead zone” along the Pacific Coast that is causing massive crab and fish die-offs is…
Thomas C. Greene writing for ©The Register exposes the implausibility of bringing liquid explosive onto airplanes. “So the fabled binary liquid explosive – that is, the sudden mixing of hydrogen peroxide and acetone with sulfuric acid to create a plane-killing…
are bloggers and messages boards trying to destroy capitalism. The snowball effect caused by one incident being posted on the internet is quite remarkable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKqX_V_jRg This isn’t the first time the blogosphere has been used as a means of attack,…
From the Daily Show, Fall of 2005. Seems relevant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nxzJaWk4wY
The Roast of William Shatner is coming up this weekend on Comedy Central. 10p/9c…check your local listings! From Comedy Central: It’s William Shatner’s turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy…
The New York Times printed an article regarding Public Acceptance of Evolution quoting a study published in the current issue of Science magazine. In surveys conducted in 2005, people in the United States and 32 European countries were asked whether to…