A recent article in Guardian.co.uk laid out an interesting take on much of the psychology behind some feminine behaviors that otherwise may look a little strange. Since I’ll use any old excuse to post a picture of Dayana Mendoza, this seems like as good a time as any to post a few of my own reflections.

Learning about Columbus today, some people think that many Europeans in the late 1400s believed that the world was flat, making Columbus – believing the world was round – the wise one. As it turns out, navigation at the time depended on looking at stars and understanding the curvature of the earth, so the earth being round was common knowledge. Even the ancient Greeks knew that the earth is round.

There’s a big hubbub this week about the potential missing link – a lemur-like fossil of some creature that existed some 47 million years ago.
James T. Harris has this to say:
OK, check it out. So according scientists, “Ida is linked to humans by the talus bone in her ankle which is the same shape.” They also said, “her opposable big toes and nails, not claws, confirmed she was a primate.”
Eureka! Cousin Ida! Missing link found. Man evolved from apes around 75 million years ago because it’s really hard to pinpoint …

What, no flying cars yet?
Honda Motor Co., one of those car companies that doesn’t have to check with Barack Obama to take a leak, has found a way to connect a person’s thoughts with the operation of robotics in order to do things like open trunks.
Holy shindig!
Opening a car trunk or controlling a home air conditioner could become just a wish away with Honda’s new technology that connects thoughts inside a brain with robotics.
Honda Motor Co. (HMC) has developed a way to read patterns of electric currents on a person’s …

In 1961, John F. Kennedy gave a speech in which he set the goal of landing a man on the moon before the closing of the decade.  He is widely hailed for his vision and leadership for this.
In 1983, Ronald Reagan laid out plans for the Strategic Defensive Initiative, which would be able to stop nuclear missiles from hitting the U.S.  The technology wasn’t quite there yet, like when JFK gave his speech, but Reagan was criticized much more.
Today, missile defense is becoming not only a possibility, but is turning …

You know it’s a weird day when The Sun (UK) features the headline:  Success!  The world hasn’t ended
At 2:30 BPN time this morning, scientists in Geneva steered the first beam of the Large Hadron Collider, widely considered to be one of the biggest, most expensive scientific experiments in human history.
In other words, the “on” button has been switched.  They won’t start colliding particles for a little while yet.
How important is this machine?  We don’t totally know yet, but the implications are potentially groundbreaking.  Even Google.com’s homepage features a special …

Slowly, mainstream pop science is beginning to catch up with evolutionary theory. This time, it’s a Vanity Fair article entitled “Why Women Aren’t Funny.”
Gasp! Something based in scientific study suggesting the genders aren’t equal?! How dare they!
Of course, most of us are blind to the inequalities of the genders because said inequalities are instilled in our brains from Aladdin to Finding Nemo to…anything else you can buy or has commercials.
In other words, why haven’t you ever noticed that women really aren’t that funny? Boldness added by …

Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve tried to deny my past for too long, but I feel I can hold the charade no longer.
That’s right. I’m a born-again Star Trek fan.
As a kid in grade school, me and a couple of friends even went so far as going to a Star Trek convention. There are pictures out there and, yes, I’m wearing the huge Vulcan ears with a smile from ear to ear.
I thought I outgrew that phase until recently. Hey, I’m a pretty cool dude, after all I have …

GM conducted a study recently that shows women have become more interested in guys with environment-friendly cars than guys driving sports cars.
Pointless studies, ho!
According to a study conducted by GM as part of this year’s Challenge X competition:

Nearly 9 in 10 women (88 percent) say they’d rather chat up someone who owns the latest fuel-efficient car versus the latest sports car.
Eighty percent of American car buyers would find someone with the latest fuel-efficient car more interesting to talk to at a party than someone with the latest sports car.
More than …

British scientists are going to be allowed to research diseases using “human-animal” embryos, leading many to wonder what kind of path British medicine is going down: the way of Dr. Jonas Salk or Dr. Frankenstein.
They’re called “admixed” embryos, and feature putting human cell nuclei into animal eggs. The theoretical embryos wouldn’t be allowed to live for more than two weeks.
Like most of this kind of embryo-level research, critics are saying that not only does this kind of research cross some weird and immoral boundaries, but that the benefits …