Science
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Skepchick Quickies 4.22
Full Jason Beghe interview available at YouTube– The former Scientologist’s interview is currently available in 17 parts. Priest attached to party balloons vanishes in Brazil– I could not make this stuff up. Watson’s genome published– James Watson’s genome is now the second full genome of an individual that has been published in Nature. Last year, Craig Venter’s was the first.…
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Hear a Neanderthal Speak!
 Florida did something interesting, and even better, it was done at the university where I am doing my grad work! I always thought guys that burped the alphabet were neanderthals and it turns out I was right. Robert McCarthy of Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus worked with Phil Lieberman (who calculated the size of the neanderthal’s larynx based on skull fossils)…
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Big Brother Gets X-Ray Vision
What’s more important – privacy or security? The question has been at the forefront of political policy debate since 9-11. Nobody wants to be the victim of a terrorist attack, but where do we draw the line between security measures and infringements of liberty? Â The ThruVision T5000 is a new security camera that can see through clothing, detecting explosives, liquids,…
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The Five Greatest Inventions Known to Woman
These are not all things invented just for women, but they are things that are associated with – or generally important to – a great many women worldwide, and on a very personal level, me. In no particular order: The bra Bras are gift-wrapping for your boobs. They’re also a fantastically functional item for the heavy-boobed like me. I don’t…
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Calendar Curiosities: April 16, 1958- Rosalind Franklin, biophysicist & double helix ‘photographer’ dies.
The 2008/2009 Skepchick/Skepdude Calendars are slated to go on sale June 1st. Â (Details for purchase coming soon.) Â They’re full of geeky, skeptical, science-y goodness, so be sure to get your order in early! Moving on to the exceptional Dr. Franklin: Very short backstory: Â Researching at King’s College London, Franklin studied the structure of DNA. Â Using her expertise as an x-ray…
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Skepchick Quickies 4.15
Expelled Exposed website has updated– Including a video of Chris Comer, victim of Darwinism, on the front page. I’ve just seen my first Expelled ads on TV and can’t stop gagging over them. I guess I’ll have to take some horse milk pills as per Elyse’s post. Bacteriophages to fight bacteria: Is this the beginning of the end?– Will use…
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Reading is Fundamental–Deceased?
In a time when fewer Americans read than ever, Bush has eliminated funding for RIF (Reading is Fundamental) from the 2009 budget. This site has a form for contacting your congressperson and telling them to put it back. Why is this post tagged “anti-scienceâ€? From the National Institute for Literacy: By age 17, only about 1 in 17 seventeen year…
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Weekend party ideas
If you haven’t made any plans for the weekend yet, here are a few ideas you might want to try out (if you’re of legal drinking age, whatever that is where you live). They’re all from our reading selection, How to Fossilize Your Hamster, by Mick O’Hare. Get set to do these experiments at home, because they all involve booze and…
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