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Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Hey, Verne!, or, H.G. (Wells) TV
Posted in Arts, Science, Scott Lahti, Technology, tagged Museum of the History of Science, steampunk on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ll take Restoration Riffraff for £1666, Aleks
Posted in Arts, Humor, Language, Law, Media, Mind, Science, Scott Lahti, Self, Sex, Technology, tagged dildos, Isaac Newton, Mrs. Dash Penis Substitute, Wikipedia, William Chaloner on October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Because there is only one thing worse than having your post on the role of the dildo in Newtonian post-physics turned into a footnote in an article at Wikipedia, and that is having Apple-Bodied Seemin’, or, Gravity’s Dildo sink like a lead phallus.
[tip: Aleksandreia Blog Stats - Referrers]
Luminescent, Tumescent Mushrooms!
Posted in Nature, Science, Scott Lahti, tagged mushrooms, phalli, Phalli Phpan on October 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Strange News
Glow-in-the-Dark Mushrooms Discovered
Discovered on the bark of a standing tree in Borneo, Malaysia, this new glow-in-the-dark mushroom called Mycena silvaelucens emits a yellowish-green light throughout the day, though it’s easier to see at night (right). Credit: Brian Perry, University of Hawaii.
Phallic Mushroom Discovered
This stinkhorn mushroom is just two inches (5 cm) long and was [...]
Quick links, mostly scientific
Posted in Commerce, Health Care Proposals, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Science, World on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
New Strategy For Mending Broken Hearts? Via my husband.
Human Cadaver Handling for Dummies.
Paying Attention to How People in Muslim Countries See the United States.
The Worst Words for the Economy.
The New England Journal of Medicine on Baucus’s Bill and the Long Road to Reform.
Pigs Defeating RFID-Enabled Feeding Systems.
Intelligent Evolution
Posted in E. L. Beck, Gods, Nature, Science, tagged creation, evolution, intelligent design, intelligent evolution on October 9, 2009 | 18 Comments »
(Finally, a non-economic, non-political post. Yet, it may stir the hornets’ nest far more vigorously than anything I’ve written to date.)
“By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.” Genesis 2:2
And so the story of the universe’s [...]
Friday Hodge Podge: Dreams, Peace, Quaker Worship, Chapstick Lesbians, and TV Shows
Posted in Culture, Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Science, Sex, Woman on October 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Dream: I’m in a room filled with Greeks and Turks, and I’m to sing Greek songs and dance. I wear a long dress that I purchased at a Greek festival. But I’m handed a page that has, not lyrics in Greek and music, as I expected, but translations of lyrics in English, and [...]
A Mighty Windmill
Posted in Education, Mind, Science, Scott Lahti, Technology, World, tagged Malawi, William Kamkwamba, windmills on October 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This high-school kid from rural Malawi (book at #11 at Amazon.com) was on The Daily Show last night.
For a soldering iron, he used a stiff piece of wire heated in a fire.
“For an educated adult living in a developed nation, designing and building a wind turbine that generates electricity [...]
Ivory Power
Posted in Community, Culture, Education, Ethics, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Lifestyle, Media, Mind, Nation, Nature, Politics, Science, Scott Lahti, Technology, World, tagged Michael Ostrolenk, Miller-McCune, transpartisanship, Utne.com on October 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Miller-McCune, a magazine launched in 2008, strives to translate recent academic research into readable articles offering innovative and nonpartisan approaches to challenging issues of the day. If you’ve already discovered the joys of The Wilson Quarterly, you’ll find much here to your taste:
The online magazine Miller-McCune.com harnesses current academic research with real-time reporting to address [...]
Chronicles of Anarchia
Posted in Arts, Mind, Politics, Science, Scott Lahti, World, tagged anarchism, James C. Scott, state on October 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
New book just published September 30, from the author of Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts, and The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia, and, most famously a decade ago, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve [...]
CHRIST STOPPED AT E. COLI
Posted in Commerce, Ethics, Health Care, Law, Lifestyle, Nation, Nature, Science, Scott Lahti, tagged Accidents and Safety, E Coli (Bacteria), food, Food Contamination and Poisoning, meat on October 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Knight Science Journalism Tracker, MIT
E. Coli Path Shows Flaws in Beef Inspection
By MICHAEL MOSS
Stephanie Smith, 22, was left paralyzed in 2007 after eating a burger tainted by E. coli. Tracing her burger shows why eating ground beef is still a gamble.
This 5,000-word front-page article from Sunday became as of last night the paper’s most e-mailed [...]
Do people think? New studies are inconclusive…
Posted in Culture, Education, Franklin Evans, Language, Mind, Nature, Science, Self, World on October 3, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I enjoyed our own Lynn’s post about doggie intelligence (second half of post; first half is a cautionary and timely tale about keeping your medical records current.) We always had a dog while I was growing up, and less so a cat (though cats’ tendency to think of their humans as convenient rest stops might [...]
yes, he did walk on the Moon
Posted in Culture, Education, Science, Sigaliris, tagged buzz aldrin, moon walk on September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Serendipitously, I ran across this video just in time to put it up as an addendum to John E.’s post, below. Of course, I don’t believe in unnecessarily exalting unnecessary violence–and wasted considerable time today arguing about it at that Time Sink From Hell, the Other Place–but my barbarian alter ego is cheering Buzz Aldrin [...]
Penny Pinching Puke Ray
Posted in Community, Humor, Mind, Nation, Nature, Science, Steve S., Technology, War, tagged Make My Day, Puke Ray on September 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
If you are anything like me, there are probably a couple of people you think merit a bit of acute lead poisoning, but you don’t want to do the jail time. For those special people, the military Puke Ray can be a satisfying alternative, but at $1 million dollars, it is [...]
Saw VI: Free Willy
Posted in Health Care, Man, Science, Scott Lahti, Sex, tagged penis on September 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Forwarded conversation
Subject: Saw VI: Free Willy
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From: Robert F.
‘This will make me the chief of my tribe.”
I think that quote is right up there with “I am the only one professional enough…”
Rescue Team Uses Saw to Free Trapped Penis
Sparks fly when a trapped penis is freed from a dumbell ring.
By JONATHAN LLOYD
Updated 12:20 PM PDT, Fri, [...]
This I Believe
Posted in Ethics, Lifestyle, Mind, Nature, Science, Scott Lahti, Technology, tagged agrarianism, anarchism, counterculture, decentralism, ecology, environment, Freedom, integralism, MANAS, Nature, neo-Platonism, organic, Theosophy, wholism on September 28, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Submitted on October 26, 2005 to the radio essay series This I Believe whose winning entrants have been featured regularly on National Public Radio.
As I reflect on the impotence of our elephantine technocracy to face the threats its sheer scale helped spawn, I recall two illustrations: the first, from Taoism, states that “power weakens as [...]
With great power comes a lot of spider silk
Posted in Culture, Science on September 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Why didn’t they ask Peter Parker for help? He invented artificial spider silk over 45 years ago. Instead, they had to go to these resorts: Probably because he doesn’t have his Ph.D. yet. (well, I had to preserve this for posterity somewhere).
Strangelove as Documentary
Posted in Culture, Nation, Public, Science, Steve S., Technology, War, World, tagged Doomsday Machine, Nuclear war on September 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For all of you Dr. Srangelove fans out there, Nicholas Thompson at Danger Room reports the USSR really did have a Doomsday Machine. Key quotes…..
By guaranteeing that Moscow could hit back, Perimeter was actually designed to keep an overeager Soviet military or civilian leader from launching prematurely during a crisis. The [...]
Sharon Begley on the Neuroscience of Why Torture Doesn’t Work
Posted in Ethics, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Science, War on September 22, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Got this link from my husband: Sharon Begley, The Tortured Brain. Extreme pain and stress can actually impair a person’s ability to tell the truth.
… “Studies of extreme stress with Special Forces Soldiers have found that recall of previously-learned information was impaired after stress occurred,” notes O’Mara. “Water-boarding in particular is an extreme stressor [...]
The Case for Killing Granny, and, Naked Came the Stranger While You (and He) Were Sleeping, or, She Was Asking for It, Your Honor: In My Dreams!
Posted in Family, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Law, Science, Scott Lahti, Sex, tagged end of life care, sexsomnia on September 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Die, Mother’s mother!
The Case for Killing Granny
Rethinking end-of-life care.
By Evan Thomas | NEWSWEEK
And stop dragging your (failing) heart around, lest you become a drag in ways more than one yourself. Not to worry: like everything else that makes this country great, from corn chips to cornhole, Throwing Gramma from the Grav(it)y Train is blessedly bi-partisan, [...]
The “Nature v. Nurture” Debate: Overcoming Guilt & Stigma, by Jehannine Austin, Ph.D.
Posted in Health Care, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Science, tagged bipolar disorder, genetics on September 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Jehannine Austin is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and a genetic counselor who specializes in psychiatric genetic counselling. She gave two talks at this year’s DBSA conference. The longer one, which I attended, was the family member pre-conference institute on the nature vs. nurture debate, and the [...]
But I want to be Barney Rubble–I prefer brunettes
Posted in Culture, Science, Self, War on September 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Europeans May be 5% Neanderthal
Although my own Y chromosome actually comes from the Middle East maybe 35, ooo years ago, and didn’t end up near any Neanderthal sites, so I probably missed all the interbreeding with Those People. Tho’ I do have prominent eyebrow ridges. But you never know…. While my progenitor, called The Patriarch [...]
♫ Boy, the meds Great-Granny’d toke/Billy’s toothache gets its coke/Land of Freedom’s now a joke/Those.Were.The.Drugs!…♫
Posted in Arts, Commerce, Ethics, Family, Health Care, Health Care Proposals, Law, Lifestyle, Mind, Science, Scott Lahti, tagged Americana, cultural history, Drugs on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Addiction Research Unit, University of Buffalo
(www.wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm)
Most people don’t realize that, prior to the War on Drugs, anyone could buy mind-altering drugs in drug stores without a prescription — and yet there were not nearly the drug problems we have today. This very interesting site contains numerous photographs of labels from products containing heroin, cocaine, and [...]
Depression–a feature, not a bug
Posted in Culture, Health Care, Mind, Science, Self on September 2, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Nacherly, I was struck by this: Two scientists suggest that depression is not a malfunction, but a mental adaptation that brings certain cognitive advantages
When you’re depressed, you need to think really really hard about the thing that’s depressing you (the behavior of those close to you, what’s happened to you, etc. etc). And [...]
Health Care Meta-Analysis
Posted in Commerce, Health Care, Law, Lifestyle, Man, Nation, Politics, Public, Science, Steve S. on August 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The news has been full of health care anecdotes. Blogs are full of reports passing along stuff they heard on vacation, read somewhere else or heard passed on from a friend. These are all interesting, maybe even helpful sometimes, but we still need good solid evidence. There are comparison studies available [...]
