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Faith in Faith
Occasionally, when discussing science and faith, I have to admit that my belief in atoms, quantum mechanics, carbon dating, and lots of other stuff isn’t based on something that I know. It’s based on my belief, or faith, in science. And occasionally, someone somewhere will try to convince me that my faith in science is […]
Not Enough Hours in the Day? Just Wait.
The earth’s rotation slows by about a second every 50,000 years. So just stay alive a while and you can enjoy longer days. Unfortunately, the length of a year isn’t changing. As days get longer, there will be fewer of them in a year, meaning that you’ll have to do your taxes more often. [Incidentally, […]
Long Dry Spell
A tuatara named Henry hadn’t had sex for at least 40 years, but finally got it on and has become a dad to eleven bouncing baby tuatara. He’d apparently been grumpy due to a tumor on his rump (or his underneath area. I can’t be sure, since the article says “his bottom.” What does that […]
Animal Handymen
Or handypeople. Wired Science presents a list of animals making and using tools in the wild.
To Bee or Not to Bee
I’m reading Fruitless Fall, by Rowan Jacobsen. It’s mainly about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which has apparently devastated the bee keeping industry around the world. I haven’t gotten to a lot of the CCD stuff yet (as of page 60), but what I have read has been fascinating. Bees’ lives, the different roles in their […]
My Birthday Present
If you’d like to get me something 100K-ish, you could do worse than this. For only four hundred bucks, there’s this.
Pretty Astronomy
“From the Earth to the Universe” is a collection of beautiful astronomical images. Twelve good ones are highlighted at Seed magazine. Or you can see many more from the collection itself.
More Skeptics
This little video about good science vs. nonscience has some real gems. To paraphrase (so that I don’t have to remember the exact wording): In science, we have to keep track of the misses as well as the hits. Astrologists, psychics, etc., just keep track of the hits (that is, the things they claim that […]
Wolverine! Frog-Style.
You know the X-Men, right? Mutants who save the world and such. Awesome. And you know Wolverine, right? Super-fast-healing hairy badass. And, you know how Wolverine has these claw-thingies that he can force through the skin of his hands? And, when asked whether it hurts when that happens, he said, “every time”? How about a […]