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Science Has Bad News For Goth Chicks - Vampires May Not Be Real
2007-10-18 03:44:00 Groundbreaking - and heartwarmingly unessential - research done by University of Central Florida physics professor Costas Efthimiou has attempted to confirm what a generation of suicide girls has always feared - that vampires do not exist. His reasoning? On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was just over 530 million people. If one vampire existed on that day and bit one person per month, and More About: Science , News , Bad News , Real , Chicks
The Science of Relationships II: Keeping Magic Alive
2007-06-09 01:10:00 Sexy Scientist is a rare and powerful card People are not always sure there is a science to relatonships until I spend a minute explaining it to them. Everything in the universe is about inductance. Inductance has lots of gobbledy-gook definitions that require you to know what a lot of other words mean, so physics definitions don't always help, but inertia is part of the lexicon and everyone More About: Science , Relationships , Magic , Alive
Go Green By Switching To Fruit Power
2007-05-23 05:37:00 It confuses some people that I can be an environmentalist and a Republican. It's confusing because Democrats are handed a checklist of "coalition of the oppressed" platforms they have to believe in, so they don't understand picking and choosing positions based on logic and common sense. Republicans don't much care if you are for ice-picking fetus skulls or paying high taxes, as long as you have More About: Power , Fruit , Green , Switching , Witch
Girls Give Hope To Ugly Guys Everywhere Part VI
2007-05-16 04:40:00 Science articles, even in the casual world of the internet, take a great deal of research. It's not always easy making science look easy. As all of you know, my articles are meticulously detailed, well thought out and ergonomically terrific in almost every way. That doesn't happen by accident. But sometimes revelations for new articles happen by accident, like when I am researching something More About: Girls , Hope , Guys , Part , Give
Smart teens don’t have sex (or kiss much either)
2007-05-08 04:53:00 High intelligence is the best protection against early sexual activity during adolescence, research has shown. Can it be that intelligent kids don't need free condoms to be convinced they shouldn't have sex? Well, yes, that may be, but it may also be that smart kids just can't get dates. Virgin by choice? Or she just can't get a date? To reach this conclusion about intelligence and sexual More About: Teens , Kiss , Smart
The Spanish Celebrate Cinco de Mayo By Annexing Mexico
2007-05-04 04:09:00 Presidente del Gobierno José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain said the Spanish Republic has decided to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by revoking Mexican independence: "It has always been a common misperception that the 5th of May is a celebration of Mexican independence from Spain. This is not correct, is is actually a celebration of victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, More About: Mexico , Celebrate , Rate
Music, Math and Models
2007-05-01 01:13:00 I've said a few times that music is math. I've also said a few times that I'm a Chinese jet pilot and that Halle Berry wants to bear my children so it's probably hard to know when you should take me seriously and when you shouldn't. But let's go back to this "music is math" stuff. On that part I'm not kidding. At the end of the day, a lot of things can be math, including music and More About: Music , Models , Math
The Science of Orgasms
2007-04-20 04:39:00 I read an article from Men's Health talking about how women get aroused during exercises. Specifically, hanging leg raises. "Coregasm" they called it, because some women can, apparently, have an orgasm while doing these exercises. Aside from the fact that it's a really cool term, I was a little jealous. Men need to do some real work to climax. Sure, we all know women have it easier in that More About: Science , Orgasms
Queer As Fish: Estrogen in Pittsburgh rivers
2007-04-17 21:36:00 There's a lot of "Can X make you gay?" articles being written these days. This fellow says soy is making you gay and even the New York Times wonders if you have a gay car. Now a study from the University of Pittsburg h says that fish from Pittsburgh rivers contain substances that act like estrogen. Estrogen. The female hormone. So you'll have to forgive me for the topical television More About: Fish , Rivers
Practical Science Part I - Bugs Bunny and Beer
2007-04-15 21:09:00 Anyone can tell you, the surest test of your science chops is your ability to make a kid understand it. Science , at its most fundamental, can be understood by anyone if explained properly. Science is, for the most part, conceptual. The math is relatively unimportant as long as you understand why things work the way they work. Bugs Bunny , I want my 4 hours of research back I bring that up More About: Beer , Part
An Equation About Easter Miracles - Should Captain Carrot Quit Smoking?
2007-04-07 19:15:00 I got some questions from a writer named Captain Carrot , i.e. a stranger, who deduced that, because I write this column for free, I must also be available for free science consultation and/or general life and relationship advice. Here is a sample: I am 27. Should I try to stop smoking, or will I regret it later in life? Most of you know me well enough by now to realize that, unless you More About: Quit Smoking , Easter , Smoking , Miracles
Happy Easter
2007-04-06 16:32:00 Be sure to enjoy a wholesome Crusade. I know I will: Even if you don't admire my Photoshop skills, you have to admit I don't look as silly as a British guy who signs up to be crucified and then claims God told him at the last minute not to do it. Maybe I'm crazy but I bet God didn't have as much to do with it as watching nine Filipinos before him get whipped and nailed to crosses. That More About: Easter , Happy , Aster
Girls Gone Green
2007-03-19 21:06:00 I saw a press release about a global warming 'virtual march' ( we'll get back to that ) and a tour being conducted by Laurie David ( married to "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David and thus an expert on climate science, also founder of the website that put out the press release ) and Sheryl Crow called the "Stop Global Warming College Tour" beginning April 9th in Dallas. I was itching to find More About: Girls , Green , Girl , Gone
Who Funds The Chocolate Consensus?
2007-03-06 05:57:00 In case you were hiding under a rock, there was the scientific equivalent of an earth-shattering thunderclap that emanated from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meetings held February 15th-19th in San Francisco - to be honest, they pretend everything they say is big news, you can see 20 articles from it on Scientific Blogging - but I mean this was legitimately big More About: Fun , Chocolate , Onsen , Cola , Fund
Heidi Klum Is Not Grabbing My Butt This Valentine's Day
2007-02-14 23:48:00 But she is probably grabbing Seal's. Again.* I don't understand how I consistently get 72% of the votes for 'best butt' on my blog and he gets Heidi Klum . That guy is my greatest foe. Well, he and Scott Baio. Do you think it's because when I took the "Which Star Trek character are you?" test I ended up too much like Kirk? I should have known she would be a Picard girl. If you don't have More About: Valentine , This , Valenti , Vale
Would Female Orgasms Kill Men?
2007-01-28 22:12:00 Always thought women were the stronger sex? Okay, I admit it, me too. But I am inclined to be a little skeptical when someone pimping their book cites ancillary evidence rather than studies so even if the logic is good I tend to maintain a healthy disbelief. Ryuichi Kaneko and Dr. Kunio Kitamura, two of the co-authors of "Sex no Subete ga Wakaru Hon (Everything You Need to Know About Sex)" More About: Female , Men , Asms , Male , Kill
The Scientific Guide To Dating
2007-01-11 22:31:00 I just learned that Hilary Swank and some guy named Chad Lowe ( i.e. nobody ) are getting a divorce after a long separation. I have to tell you I saw this coming. Did I see this coming because she has an Oscar and forgot to mention him when she received it? No. Did I see it coming because a girl who looks like this should have stepped up to someone who does not look like her little sister a More About: Dating , Guide , Guid , Dati
A Population Crisis The Left And Right Can Agree On
2007-01-07 20:45:00 Population science is more art than science so you can count on me to be a little skeptical. However, there are times when the numbers are just too alarming and we have to mobilize for action. What is this looming population catastrophe? It's Elvis impersonators. Even the Center for Disease Control has sounded the alarm about this issue. If the CDC is worried about an issue, so am I. When More About: Pop , Left , Right , Crisis , Isis
Yes,Vagina, There Is A Santa Claus
2007-01-02 05:57:00 Seriously, I did not originate that headline. Clearly, I have nothing against vaginas, since I wrote articles talking about how women were using evolution to create two vaginas and enchant twice as many men at the same time and how the new James Bond got that job thanks to the magic of Sienna Miller's career-enhancing vagina but I am not completely obsessed with them either. I actually kind More About: Santa Claus , Santa , Here , There , Sant
The REAL Science of Christmas
2006-12-17 18:58:00 Sometimes people think that, because I write this column, I am somehow available for free science consulting services. Obviously this is not the case but I don't mind the occasional question, especially if it concerns real puzzles like how Al Gore can prove a car in China doesn't cause global warming but a car in America does. Lately I have been pestered with questions about this whole More About: Science , Christmas , Christ , Chris , Real
A Plea For Eating Disorder Tolerance
2006-12-07 13:01:00 Just this once, we need to talk about something serious. I know it's easy for people to have a knee-jerk reaction to the problems of others and just start laughing but we're all adults here. So I am going to bring this up and then we can discuss the underlying issues and what we, as a society, can do to help. You see, I just discovered that Dennis Quaid has "manorexia." Sometimes he looks More About: Tolerance , Order , Eating , Diso
Need A Christmas Gift For Your Left-Leaning Chick? Try Ethical Underwear
2006-12-06 07:12:00 You can absolutely bet when a marketing department uses the word "ethical" - about its lingerie - someone is out to make a buck at your expense. And they think you will believe anything, my environmental friends. But French designer Sophie Young's g=9.8 company is doing it with a straight face. In yet another blatant product placement on treehugger.com they claim the kinds of things only the More About: Christmas , Chick , Lean , Your , Gift
Want Men To Understand Your Relationship? Make A Card Game Out Of It
2006-12-04 05:09:00 I've done acupressure for over 20 years. Not because I am some wussified New Age guy who cites Three Men And A Baby as his favorite movie but because it works. I have taken aspirin maybe once in that time for a headache. I didn't learn it from an ancient Chinese guru, I learned it by reading a book. When you are a young guy, you are just reading for knowledge and you can learn lots of More About: Card , Relationship , Your , Game
Science Goes On A Spiritual Quest
2006-12-01 17:23:00 It still seemed like a great idea when I walked out of Kathmandu but by the time I crossed into Tibet I was starting to worry I had made a mistake. Scientists are always looking for answers, you see, and not all answers can be found at the bottom of a bottle of Miss Clairol. I had begun to doubt myself. "Why blondes?" I found myself asking. And "Maybe Al Gore is right and my car causes More About: Science , Spiritual , Ritual , Quest , Spirit
Bond. Cash Bond.
2006-11-20 05:42:06 People who have known me for a long time know that when I am not dazzling the world with scientific brilliance, I am a Formula One race car driver who also solves mysteries on TV. What you may not know is that I was also the star of a major motion picture. It was a different take on the James Bond story - namely it was about an American spy who pretends to be a scientist and what would happen if More About: Cash
Surest Sign Of The Apocalypse - No More Blondes
2006-11-16 11:15:06 According to this article, researchers at the World Health Organization have claimed that the last natural blonde will be born in Finland in 2202. And the BBC version tells us German scientists have claimed this is due to decreasing frequency of the recessive gene for blonde hair. The SkyNet article states that when the last Ice Age ended 11,000 years ago blonde hair and blue eyes were More About: Blondes , Blond , Blonde , Apocalypse , Sign
Face Recognition, Emotions And How Science Determined I Will Be The Next Ja
2006-11-14 00:34:00 *I saw this tool over on the Grunt a few weeks ago but the more I got curious about it the more I became interested and ended up writing a real article. Here it is, not that any of you care, because it isn't all that funny. * Dynamic face recognition may be one of the last frontiers for quantifying why some of our simplest brain functions have difficulty being matched by computers. As a kid More About: Science , The N , Emotions , Next , Face
The Mens Guide To Dating A Geek Girl V 1.0
2006-11-08 07:12:00 Let's face it, sometimes we get tired of dating models. Sure, they clean up well but it gets annoying having to tell her she's beautiful a hundred times a day and the cocaine bill gets expensive. You might think you have no hope of getting an attractive low-maintenance geek girl and I am inclined to agree ( that you can't anyway ) but I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness, so More About: Dating , Men , Girl , Geek , Guide
How Math Can Save Your Marriage - An Interview With The Author Of Geek Logi
2006-11-04 16:50:00 Ever have someone tell you a certain pesky question can't be answered scientifically? Garth Sundem is here to help. He's the author of Geek Logik and it's his business to help you mathematically solve life's most pressing problems. Garth has created plug-in numerical solutions that help you make decisions while completely abdicating accountability for your actions - because you can always More About: Marriage , Inter , Interview , With , Your
Guns, Guitars And Greenpeace
More articles from this author:2006-11-03 15:48:02 As a younger man, I was a big fan of Green peace. As time went on, I thought they lost their focus by branching out from protesting nuclear weapons to whaling and trees and basically hanging out a shingle that said, "If you send us money, we will protest for you." I watched them change from instilling their people with scientific literacy to educating their people on political activism. Then More About: Peace , Guns , Guitar , Greenpeace 1, 2 |
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