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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I hate it when species are threatened. Once I went crabbing in Georgia and pretty easily caught a stone crab on about my first try, only to have the native Georgians tell me that they’re a protected species.
Nevermind that we caught so much of them they seemed to be as common as squirrels - they […]
So America has an addiction to foreign oil. Okay. So what? Politicians talk about the addiction like it’s as bad as killing babies. Global warming concerns aside, what’s so bad about oil that we need to stop buying it?
Here are some of the top complaints people have about oil:
1. We […]
It’s been my longstanding opinion that people aren’t born gay, at least not in the sense that most people would understand it. As far as I see it, though, when I debate this topic with other people, there are three possibilities in the world of “gay formation”:
1. Gay people are born like the rest of […]
It’s really easy to get into national news - all you need is some fishing line, some helium balloons, road flares, and a good imagination.
That’s what the mysterious lights over Phoenix a few days ago turned out to be: nothing more than a clever hoax, a guy claims. A clever, clever hoax. In […]
A company called Aqua Sciences, based out of Miami Beach, can now harvest water from atmospheric moisture - essentially getting “water from thin air.”
Interestingly, although Aqua Sciences wasn’t directly funded through military contracting, it will find early uses in hydrating our troops in Iraq - where it will bring water transportation costs from $30 a […]
This post is a follow-up to Wednesday’s post, in which I talked about the possible effects of global warming.
One obvious effect already occurring that I didn’t mention was the growth of ethanol as a popular fuel additive. Since ethanol is made from crops like corn, it’s driving up food prices all over the world, stirring […]
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