The Unusual Case Of The Man With The Green Blood
A new novel about Sherlock Holmes or, my favorite, The Saint?No, this really happened in an operating room in St Paul’s Hospital, British Columbia. Dr. Alana Flexman, Dr. Stephan Schwarz and Dr....
View ArticleShould We Regulate The Porn Industry?
In California, you can't smoke a cigar in Morton's Of Chicago after a great steak any more. It's too dangerous to the health of the waitresses and waiters. Legislators have recently tried to institute...
View ArticleThe Assault On Coffee
There's a war that's brewing and you may not be aware of it. It's right under our noses but it has been kept out of the mainstream media due to a growing web of deniers and obfuscaters who regard...
View ArticleWill Federal Energy Standards Help Or Hurt Consumers?
There aren't many people who will claim that the government is here to help you and they will save you money, but Chris Cooper and Benjamin Sovacool are doing just that. Cooper is Senior Policy...
View ArticleCan We Build A Better Global Warming Model?
There's a problem in all of the climate predictions people have made over the last few years - we just don't know who to trust. Some experts remind us that since we can't predict the weather more than...
View ArticleMy Dirty Secret - I Am A Six Fiend
I have always loved numbers. My whole life I have manipulated them, caressed them, cared for them.My friends, I am a six fiend.And I am not alone. Heck, even among physics gurus I am in pretty good...
View ArticleHow Much Tax Will You Pay To Save 3,000 Obese People Per Year?
It's no secret that Europeans enjoy new ways to tax people - if they can tell you they are doing it for your own good, so much the better.I often hear arguments that start with phrases like "If we we...
View ArticleScience Converges On The Perfect Woman
"It's hard finding the perfect woman," my friend Jack said to me."What do you mean?" I asked.read more
View ArticleYour Favorite Color Is Probably Blue, Even If You're A Girl
Yes, your favorite color is blue. Most of you, anyway. Except some women, who go for the redder part of the red-green axis.A lot of science sites got a press release from Current Biology and went with...
View ArticleExtreme Transsexuals In The Bug World
Who knew that the sex lives of African bat bugs could be so interesting? Males with female genitalia, female bugs with 'paragenitals' on their abdomens that guide the males to the right spot by...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons Relationships With Robots Will Be Better For Men
I saw a few articles discussing an upcoming convergence between robot and human culture based on research by Netherlands student David Levy, who completed his PhD on the subject of human-robot...
View ArticleScience Has Bad News For Goth Chicks - Vampires May Not Be Real
Groundbreaking - and heartwarmingly unessential - research done by University of Central Florida physics professor Costas Efthimiou has attempted to confirm what a generation of suicide girls has...
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CFL Bulbs: Save The Planet, Make Your Pets Insane
I'm usually a pretty patient guy about marketing. Unlike some, I am not educated by it and, unlike others, I don't look down on it. I know why it it exists and I appreciate its value but at some point...
View ArticleMaybe, If Hundred Pound Genius Chicks Are Your Thing, Franziska Michor Is Okay
Esquire magazine scribe Tom Junod recently wrote something that made me question my judgment and his sanity - namely that Franziska Michor Is the Isaac Newton of BiologyNow, the last time someone...
View ArticleThe Science Of A Bionic Woman Part I
We all know that if there's one thing certain to happen to professional tennis players who get hurt in skydiving accidents, it's that a clandestine para-military organization will swoop in and replace...
View ArticleThe Science Of A Bionic Woman Part II
How close are we to real-world bionic parts like they show on TV? We spent Part I discussing Bionic Women on TV and speculating as to why they spent $55 Million on Jaime Sommers in the show but...
View ArticleA Theoretical Physics Explanation For Santa Claus
Sometimes people think that, because I write this column for peanuts, I am somehow available for free science consulting services. Obviously this is not the case but I don't mind the occasional...
View ArticleThe Best Reason For Space Exploration In 2008: Alien Babes
When President George Bush announced in 2004 that he wanted to reinvigorate space exploration, he presented a number of arguments for increasing funding but they were all rather tepid. Space...
View ArticleScientists As Portayed In Pop Culture Films: The Essential Top 10
It's political primary season and you know what that means, right? Right, it's time to rent movies and think about something else.But you wouldn't be here if you could watch just any movies, you'd be a...
View Article"Have We Reached Peak Whale Oil?"
I was puttering around the attic of the Cashominium, trying to sort through some old boxes, and I came across something you all might find interesting. Before any of this makes sense, I need to give...
View ArticleWho Was Saint Patrick?
If you're a student of culture, a number of things have likely piqued your curiosity; like why so many modern people get drunk about ancient religous stuff. Take Mardi Gras, for example - go to any...
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An Equation About Easter Miracles - Should Captain Carrot Quit Smoking?
I got some questions from a writer named Captain Carrot who deduced that, because I write this column for peanuts, I must also be available for free science consultation and/or general life and...
View ArticleFalsification - Why Women And Scientists Make The Best Chess Players
There is a good reason most Americans stink at chess - our unfailing optimism. No matter how bad things get with the economy or the environment or (insert your pet cause here) Americans will always...
View ArticleOekologie, Oekologie, Golly What A Day
Do you like that title? I can't help it, I hear that song from Robin Hood every time I see the word 'oekologie' so hum along with me and enjoy episode #16.First, I can't take credit for finding most of...
View ArticlePlease Help Scientists By Participating In National Orgasm Day July 31st
I'm taking a moment away from crafting "Journey To The Center Of The Uterus", my opus on reproduction and culture, to discuss something of equal import - namely, orgasms.It will shock you to know this,...
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Can I Back Order My Mr. Fusion Now?
If you were a young-ish science student in the mid-1980s there are two movies that remain in your collection to this day; Back To The Future and, of course, Buckaroo Banzai: Across The Eighth...
View ArticleEverything I Need To Know About Science I Learned From Watching "The Lost...
It's not often you can boil down complicated abstract ideas about science or culture into simple concepts everyone can understand. Gems like "for every reaction there is an equal and opposite...
View ArticleStem Cells Get Practical - Liposuction And Breast Enhancement All At Once
There was once a controversy about human embryonic stem cell research - former president Bush put in place limited forms of research in 2001, to the outcry of science advocates who vilified his...
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Seals Happy About Global Warming Sea Ice Loss
Though the developed world is concerned about greenhouse gas emissions implicated in climate change and global warming, reactions in nature have been less consistent.Polar bears have been increasingly...
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Ethanol - Now It Cures Everything
As if tortillas weren't already expensive enough because of a ridiculous 2005 enviromental law mandating usage and subsidies for ethanol, now the pesky medical community is in on the take.Percutaneous...
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