In case you haven’t heard, a larger black spot was recently, er, spotted on Jupiter. Preliminary analysis indicates that it was probably caused by the impact of a comet or asteroid (and not millions of self replicating alien computers attempting to ignite a fusion reaction in the planet as I first suspected). The impact was [...]
I recently came across an article at Scientific American discussing studies about homophobes and their reactions to gay people. The long and the short of it is that amongst “straight” male homophobes, sexual arousal occurs at a higher rate than amongst straight, non-homophobic men. Other studies also show that anger and violent tendencies are greatly [...]
If your browser window is bigger than 800 by 600 pixels, you may notice the new graphic to the left. It and this post are announcing that the Large Hadron Collider is officially online. The LHC is a giant science experiment which will try to detect the Higgs boson, which according the the Standard Model [...]
Even though ignorance seems to be all the rage these days, science is still cool. And the coolest part of science is pictures in space. Here’s a new time-lapse video with a bit of a twist from the EPOXI mission. It’s really just a video of the Moon passing in front of the Earth. It’s [...]
Here’s an interesting link. It’s work safe unless you work at the Creation “Science” Museum or maybe a Mosque. http://thefutureofourworld.ytmnd.com/ (link goes to page with sound) It’s a little depressing, but watch until the end. I think it puts things nicely into perspective. Just remember that you only get this one life, so don’t be [...]
For those of you who don’t “believe” in evolution I suggest you check out this blog entry about Podarcis sicula. It’s no Crocoduck, but it’s a great illustration of what evolution is really all about. Take a population, isolate it, change the environment, et voila, something new and different. I wonder what will happen if [...]
I have a t-shirt (pictured below) that I bought at the VLA gift shop. It states the following: “The universe exploded out of nothingness 14 billion years ago and all I got was 100 trillion interconnected cells, a self-aware consciousness, and this lousy t-shirt!” Today I went to Chicago Style Gyros to get lunch and [...]
After reading this article, I decided it was time to let everyone know exactly what Science really is. Science is merely a method for solving problems. Many of you might remember studying the Scientific Method in school. For those that don’t, it has its own website. Now I’m not saying that Evolution is the be-all [...]