Category Archives: Science
Space! … blast where’s Nimoy?
It doesn’t get cooler than NASA! I would have loved to have been an astronaut! Space walkin’.
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2nd Place: “Women Were Designed For Homemaking”
Maybe the Creationists are onto something!
Jonathan Goode (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry baskets; biology shows that women were designed to [...]
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And I made a cloud
Cold. -4°C outside. Brrr. So I took Amy and Noah out on the porch and threw a pot of boiling water into the air. Both children enjoyed seeing the water turn to vapor and float across the yard like a scene from a Scooby Doo swamp. I let them have their moment and did not [...]
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My college experience finally explained
Smart kids are more likely to be heavy drinkers "There’s a link between a high IQ and developing alcohol problems"
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In 10 years, TSA will display your thoughts on screen
In 10 years, TSA will be scanning your brain. Just saying..
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Is 9V too much for a 6V device?
If I have a device that requests 6V input and I have an a/c adapter that outputs 9V, will the device draw only the 6V it needs or will it try to take all 9V and burn itself out? In this case the circuit is simply a light. It has the switch and the bulb [...]
LHC Achieves Blackhole!
And it has formed in my house! Last night I set my glasses down and they instantly vanished. This morning the same thing happened to some ointment I pulled out for one of the children. When I say vanished, I mean blink and it is gone! I hope this hole doesn’t grow too large. So [...]
Hadron collider live webcams
Watch the activity at the Large Hadron Collider.
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And today started off so well…Now I’m seeing stars
I have been working a project that no person in their right mind would have accepted, particularly at the pittance of the budget alloted. It is a train wreck but today, after several hours of feeling like I was trying to fill the ocean with sand from the beach, I felt the train was back [...]
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BRAINS! Braaaainnns!
Since you do not have enough to worry about, I suppose you probably want to hear about the Zombie Amoeba. That’s right. There is an amoeba that wants to eat your brains! If I recall my science lessons correctly, an amoeba is a single celled organism. This simple thing is taking people down.
According to the [...]
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Practicing what I preach
I have bemoaned that we could get the United States onto the metric system if we started using it. You know.. put up speed limit signs that show both metric and English measurements. Of course if both the metric and English measurement appeared on the same sign, people may continue to ignore the metric. What [...]
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Oh! That acid rain…
Wow! The things that we miss. I just learned that Pennsylvania has had an underground fire burning for 45 years and that it is likely to burn for another 245 years!
An exposed vein of coal ignited in 1962 due to the standard policy of burning the garbage on a weekly basis in the borough landfill, [...]
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Sorry Dean
I’m smarter than you.
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What’s in your future?
How about wireless lightbulbs? Or perhaps a toaster with no cord? Charge your laptop simply by setting it on your desk? How about a child-safe house that has absolutely no exposed outlets?
Researchers at MIT have shown that it’s possible to wirelessly power a 60-watt lightbulb sitting about two meters away from a power source. Using [...]
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Rare East Coast rocket launch tonight at 7:35