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Fluorescent bulb survival tips
Last night I lay awake trying to force myself back into a proper diurnal schedule. It’s 4 AM or so and I find myself laying on my back, throwing a white balloon towards the ceiling and watching it glide back down, gracefully curving in whatever direction the nozzle is pointing. (due to aerodynamics, I suppose) [...]
Do Not Fear the Large Hadron Collider
Hysteria, and particularly the act of promoting hysteria, ranks pretty high on my pet peeves list. As such, I have a distaste for FOX news. Here’s one such headline they offered up in January: Scientists Not So Sure ‘Doomsday Machine’ Won’t Destroy World Since knowledge immunizes fear, let’s take a closer look at understanding this [...]
FACT: Sugar prevents ice cream from freezing solid
At the conclusion of yesterday’s story, the Hamburg sandwich (aka: hamburger) had just began it’s rise to fame at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. At the same event another famous food was born… the ice cream cone. Not ice cream itself, mind you, just the cone. Apparently the guy at the booth ran [...]
FACT: the glass is most likely half empty
I’m a pretty steady optimist, usually assuming things will work out, though last week I had a bout of pessimism. (I think I’m over that now) So the traditional optimist/pessimist dilemma is this: “Is the glass half full or half empty?” Despite being on the positive side of the game, I do have to say [...]
FACT: the size of earth was first discovered using shadows
The time is 250 BC, about 1500 years before what we call “modern science” took it’s first baby steps. The Egyptian city of Alexandria, on the northern coast of Egypt, was home to the greatest library that ever existed, filled with the wisest people of the day, and the birthplace of many fundamentals of mathematics, [...]
Resonance: A whole lotta shakin’ going on