Anti-Science
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Can’t sell your house? Try voodoo magic!
I was chatting with my friend Jeff Wagg today. Jeff just bought a new house, complete with a yard, which has a garden. He found a memorial stone in the garden, and upon returning it to the former homeowner, he was informed that there was something else buried in the garden — the remains of four dead hookers. No, just…
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Can't sell your house? Try voodoo magic!
I was chatting with my friend Jeff Wagg today. Jeff just bought a new house, complete with a yard, which has a garden. He found a memorial stone in the garden, and upon returning it to the former homeowner, he was informed that there was something else buried in the garden — the remains of four dead hookers. No, just…
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Things I shouldn’t find funny.
Far be it from me to mock someone who obviously has serious mental issues, but I just want to point out this video, which I discovered through a post made by Rodney Anonymous on his blog yesterday. For the record, I find absolutely nothing hilarious about a man standing before a governing body violently shaking a lectern and describing his…
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Things I shouldn't find funny.
Far be it from me to mock someone who obviously has serious mental issues, but I just want to point out this video, which I discovered through a post made by Rodney Anonymous on his blog yesterday. For the record, I find absolutely nothing hilarious about a man standing before a governing body violently shaking a lectern and describing his…
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Maybe the Loch Ness Monster Ate Your Baby
Did ‘Nessie’ roam down under? Thank you, Reuters. Thank you for inspiring the wet dreams of countless myth-obsessed cryptozoologeeks. Scientists in Australia discovered fossils of two reptiles in the Plesiosaurs genus, located on the site where once stood an inland sea. The statement issued by the researchers indicated that one reptile resembled a seal, and the article doesn’t delve into…
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Better Living Through Alchemy
The New York Times has a fascinating article examining the history of alchemy. The author, John Noble Wilford (great name, by the way, very alchemy-y), discusses both the fact that alchemy spurred interest in chemistry and also held back real scientific knowledge of the discipline, keeping it a good century or so behind other fields like biology and physics. As…
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RIP, Cosmic Muffin
I wonder, is there an expectation of honesty and balance in the obituary section of your local newspaper? I don’t mean that the writer should insert something along the lines of, “His neighbors, however, claim there is no evidence that he ever was kind to small children judging by his reactions to kids playing on his lawn.” But should an…
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Running Around in Circles: a Metaphor
First, a bit of housekeeping: I can no longer receive any email messages. None. Seriously. Months ago, emails from certain addresses were bouncing back, then the number of people who couldn’t get through grew and grew until yesterday, at which time I noticed that I couldn’t even send emails to myself. I’m working on the problem (read: crossing my fingers…
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