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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What do you think about this? Life on Mars or a rock?
The picture is part of a bigger one:
Here’s the full image.
Remember the “Face” on Mars that ended up being just a rock formation? According to Rare Earth hypothesis, this would probably just be another coincidence. People are making jokes about it […]
Within the last 36 hours, the stocks plunged, Heath Ledger died, the Oscars were announced and Hillary moved on to California.
The media has been all over these stories this week - you’ll get plenty of coverage from them. In fact, you’ll get too much.
What better time to talk about space?
Next month, 50 space exploration experts […]
Note from Dan: It’s Christmas time, so this will be the only post you get from me until Dec. 26th. Merry Christmas to all the citizens of BipolarNation!
Here’s your holiday gift from me.
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The Copernican Principle said that even if the odds of there being life on other planets are small, the sheer amount […]
Question: What is the largest object in our solar system?
Answer: Right now, not the Sun. It’s the comet Holmes, which has exploded and made a cloud of dust that is actually bigger than the Sun.
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