I think I’d rather put up with the jet lag. I’m not sure that I’d want to be stuck on a 12 hr flight somewhere with a woody, without being able to do anything about it.
The “little blue pill” given to treat impotence might also help people overcome jet lag faster, a new study [...]
I’m not sure I’d want to carry around a bunch of small sealed containers containing, for lack of a better word, snot. Hmmm, how to explain that to an officer during a routine traffic stop.
Whenever these patients felt the need to clear their noses, they would do so directly into the container, seal it, and [...]
This is one of the coolest things I’ve heard in a long time. I hope it was everything he hoped for, and more.
Stephen Hawking Flies Weightless from PhysOrg.com
(AP) — Free of his wheelchair and tethered only to heart rate and blood pressure monitors, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking on Thursday fulfilled a dream of floating weightless [...]
This is something that I just completely fail to understand. It reeks of the politically inspired Lysenkoism from the Stalinist era. That misguided attempt to force science into serving political purposes set genetics and biology back in the Soviet Union for decades.
The Bush administration has again been charged with interfering with federal climate science, in [...]
I’ve felt a bit like a Luddite the last month or so, as I’ve started to explore Flickr and realized how much it offers. The last couple of years I’ve tended to ignore social sharing sites like MySpace, Yahoo! 360, and other similar services because they haven’t seemed to be a vehicle for serious on-line [...]
This has to belong in the “well duh” file.
Well-hung males may enjoy an evolutionary advantage over their less well-endowed competitors - in certain rodents, anyway. The finding may help answer the vexing question of why penis size is so variable among mammals.
It pays to be well hung, if you’re a rat - sex - 26 [...]
Crown Hill Cemetery is trying to sell about 70 acres of land along the northern edge of their property. About a quarter of that property is wetlands.
Indianapolis real estate developer Mann Properties has agreed to pay $5.6 million for the land, provided it can obtain rezoning from the Metropolitan Development Commission. Mann wants to build [...]
My perspective on a lot of issues like this have changed over the last 5 years, since becoming a step-parent of a kid who is now a full-fledged teenager. But in most cases my perspective is simply more nuanced than it was in the past. This just seems like a really bad idea. Why is [...]
In general, phishing scams that purport to come from a bank or credit card company have been getting more realistic looking over the last little while. But there are exceptions, like the one I got today claiming to be from a bank that I’ve never done business with (although it is local to where I [...]
There’s been quite a dust up the last few days in some corners of the blogosphere over an interview that Bill Gates gave for Newsweek in which he gets a bit peevish about Apple’s ads tweaking Windows, and comparisons between the Mac in general and Vista. Personally, I thought he came off sounding a bit [...]
