Anyone who knows me relatively well, or has listened to me spout about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, knows that I’m a skeptic. Psychic abilites, astrology, ghosts: I’m not down with that. There are reasons which I could elaborate on, but they are beyond the scope of this entry. Alternative medical treatments such as the various …
Category Archives: Science & Space
Art of Science
The following website was brought to my attention by the Bad Astronomer. It is called The Art of Science and it contains some very cool images.
Stinking Hot
For those of you who enjoy this sort of weather, the heat index yesterday was about 115 degrees. What’s a “Heat Index?” Well for those of you, like me, who really didn’t have a notion how the number is developed, I point you to the handy-dandy wikipedia entry on Heat Index. Pay close attention to …
WWFSMD?
As a continuing series of posts concerning Intelligent Design, I found this site via Bad Astronomy. Flying Spaghetti Monsterism is definitely the way to go for realizing the truth about life. I plan on getting one of their t-shirts for wearing at DragonCon ’05!
Moon Toursim
As posted in the NY Times, a company in Arlington, VA (the same responsible for sending two tourists thus far into orbit) has announced a $100 million price tag for a trip around the moon. Their website, spaceadventures.com, did not have any immediately available information as of this posting. Keep your eyes peeled.
Google Bombs Away for ID
It has come to may attention through the auspices of one of my favorite blogs, Bad Astronomy, that a number of sites are Google Bombing the phrase Intelligent Design. Normally, I would eschew such practices as they are low and mean and could be considered unethical, but this is in an excellent cause. So, a …
Bush has Made me ANGRY!
In a lot of respects, I find myself the Bush-defender when I’m engaged in conversations with my generally-more-democratic friends. I defend his energy bill (a bit) and a lot of his foreign policy decisions, and lament generally on the state of politics. Then, however, he comes out with something so mind-boggingly stupid that I want …
Pluto II?
The tenth planet is found! At least if you jump on the bandwagon that anything larger than an existing planet (that is not a moon) must also be a planet. Personally, I think that Pluto should be downgraded from planet status to mere Kuiper belt object. It’s not going to bother me if we only …
Astronomy Pics
The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is one of my favorites. It gets a hit every day when I get into work. They proprietors manage to come up with some exciting and interesting images. Today they had a picture from Greece of a sun transit by the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Discovery, …
Cats and their Sweet-tooth
I heard on NPR’s Morning Edition on the 25th that cats lack the gene that enables them to sense sweet tastes in the same way we do. This study from the Monell Chemical Senses Center was published in the Public Library of Science’s journal Genetics. I find this item fascinating from an evolutionary standpoint. Was …