I have been waiting for quite some time, May of 2007 to be exact, for this but the Encyclopedia of Life is now online with it’s first 30,000 species. Although it looks like I’ll have to wait a bit longer since the site seems to be overwhelmed right now, which I suppose is a good [...]
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I’ve been sitting on this USA Today article, Americans freely change, or drop, their religions, for a couple days now. I’m not really sure what to make of this survey. Part of me sees the statistic that atheist/agnostics make up about 4% of the U.S. population and see that in a pessimistic light. Just to [...]
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I recently posted my thoughts on the Epidemiology of Global Climate Change. In that post I detailed 3 arguments global warming skeptics often employ to prove why global warming isn’t real. I addressed in the previous entry the more important question regarding not only why global warming is real but that man is the cause. [...]
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As I occasionally do, I have picked a new theme. Figured I needed the 3 column format for all my stuff. Hope you like, I was getting bored with the former Zen look.
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I’ve been watching some of the first MacGyver episodes on Joost (you can get GI Joe and the original Transformers there as well). I can’t believe how much science-based jerry-rigging he would do. In the first episode, there’s a planetarium, lasers, neutralizing sulfuric acid with sodium hydroxide, using a fire hose to jack up a [...]
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I stumbled across the following vodcast on iTunes, called Ask Palpatine. Man, is that funny; here’s a little taste.
I’m not a Star Trek/Star Wars nerd by any stretch but this is funny.
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I apologize for the lame title but it made me laugh, and I think we all realize how important that is.
Here’s another article, “Junk” RNA May Have Played Role in Vertebrate Evolution, that details recent research that finds that formerly designated “Junk” RNA (similar to “Junk” DNA but different) may have actually assisted in the [...]
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Being of the uber-geek kind of person, these topics interest me more than the average Joe. I also think being in the IT industry (and having started as the lowly help desk guy and worked my way through network administrator and then back down as a lowly developer and now up to software development manager) [...]
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Because I’m a nerd I found this article, What is the weight ratio of CO2 released to fuel burned, over at Sciam interesting. It’s part of their Ask An Expert series.
Thus, the weight ratio of CO2 produced per octane molecule burned is 352/114, or roughly 3 to 1.
The only problem with this little factoid is that [...]
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I am first going to admit to 3 things. I am not a doctor, I am not a climatologist and I know you can’t have an epidemiology (see definition) of global climate change. Oh and the book Conjuring Science (see Brain Food) inspired me to write this post.
I have been having a number of discussions regarding Global [...]
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