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,…
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…
I was browsing the net doing some follow-up research on the movie, “An Incovenient Truth,” and I happened upon a very informative site on climate science, Real Climate, Climate science from climate scientists. Dr. Eric Steig, an isotope geochemist at…
From the story, “All Google’s Roads Lead to Kansas” by Rogers Cadenhead @ Wired News. If you want to find Kristine Crispel’s horse farm outside Coffeyville, Kansas, the directions are easy: Step 1: Go to Google Maps. Step 2: Zoom…
Can you swim faster through water or syrup? While it sounds a bit silly, it is actually fundamental to physics. It was a question that Issac Newton & Christiaan Huygens debated in the 17th century. When Newton wrote his Principia Mathmatica he included both…
Michael Sessions is too young to drink champagne legally, but the 18-year-old high school senior has reason to celebrate: He unofficially won a race for mayor Tuesday by defeating the baby boomer incumbent. Sessions, who turned 18 on Sept. 22,…
The Gematriculator is a service that uses the infallible methods of Gematria developed by Mr. Ivan Panin to determine how good or evil a web site or a text passage is. Experts consider the mathematical patterns in the text of…
I would visit, but they are communists.