Rainfall + cable TV = autism?
A trio of economists at Cornell and Indiana University-Purdue have done an as-yet-unpublished study that makes the following claims: As...
Archive for Science
Things to do on dates
A friend recently pointed me to a webcomic called xkcd. (In the same email, she asked how I was doing,...
Stand by for Mars!
I imagine y'all have seen Google Moon by now. But now there's something new: Google Mars, apparently released just in...
Items: Physics, astronomy, space, math, illusion
Buncha cool stuff here, including some videos and music, on various geeky topics. Physics of Oobleck (that is, of corn...
Items: Browser window closeout
These items have no theme (well, okay, maybe "gender and genre"?); just wanting to close some browser windows. I think...
Rose’s mustache, and calculating devices
I got D&J's permission, so here's the photo of Rose and her mustache. Moments after I took that photo, Rose...
Spirit on Mars!
The latest robotic NASA mission to Mars seems to be a success so far; the rover, named Spirit, has transmitted...