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Category Archives: Science
2016 Year End Review and Tesla
I’ve been waiting patiently all year for someone to poke fun at the Tesla company for making giant storage batteries for the home. This is a direct current operation and would be more sensible coming from a company named after … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Business, Humour, Science
Tagged AC, alternating current, Boxing week best of list, DC, direct current, Edison, happy 2017, Tesla
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Dear Donald Trump
You have won the election and now there are even signals that you won’t pull out of climate deals. I write this to try to make sure you do help the climate. Firstly, science is not a buffet. You’re not … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Science
Tagged climate science, Donald Trump, Donald Trump could live to the age of 200, Donald Trump might live to the time that is his grandchildren's heyday, drugs might help extend life, even 60 year olds might clinically show an extended life by drugs, extending life, good doctors can help extend life, ibuprofen, Metformin, rapamycin, Science, science features rigorous vetting, science is not a buffet, the Apprentice show
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Don’t Cry for Venice
Well you can cry for Venice if you are a citizen of that fine city and it is completely submerged in a few years. But I, as a mere tourist with nothing of import in Venice, will not cry. Because … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Science
Tagged any port city will become a Venice, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, global warming will make sea levels rise, gondola ride in Manhattan, Las Vegas with its stunted Eiffel tower sucks, lets copy landmarks in our own continents, make tourism more competitive, New Orleans, there might be a Venice within bussing distance, thousands of Venices, Venice, Venice is sinking
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Embracing My Inner T-Rex
Over the last week I’ve tried to embrace my inner T-Rex. Try as I might, I just could not imagine that mighty tail properly. If humanity even had a slight tail I might have had some success. So my only … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science
Tagged a T-Rex could dance lazily, boxing, dog paddle, embracing your inner T-Rex, Indian dance where you screw in the light bulb, mighty tail, no flag signaling for T-Rex, Predator, puny arms, sonic booms, t-rex, T-rex could crush prey with its awesome bunny hops, T-Rex could do an awesome bunny hop, T-Rex could kill with its bite, T-Rex is a lousy boxer, T-Rex might be able to learn American sign language, The Swim, thunder lizards, tyrannosaurus rex
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Watch Those Ultimate Words
The Globe and Mail likes to think of itself as the intellectual national newspaper of Canada. I could get on board with that. Too bad it’s simply not true. Here is an article where I am quite sure their science … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Science, Wry
Tagged Canada, Canadian-led astronomy, David Dunlap Obsersvatory, dwarf planet, ever, galaxies, Ivan Semeniuk, penultimate words, Pluto, Richmond Hill, second largest telescope in the thirties, stars, supernovae in other galaxies, The Globe and Mail, Toronto
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Heat Wave Snobbery
I’ve been shocked to hear The Weather Network in Canada repeating the same dogma over the last few years. That is that a heat wave is defined to be at least 3 days in a row of temperatures above 32 … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Science, Wry
Tagged 3 days of temperatures above 32 degrees Celsius, America, Arizona has dry heat, Canada, global warming, Great Lakes area has humid heat, heat wave definition, temperature differential, The Weather Network in Canada, Yellowknife should have lax heat wave standards
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I’m a Nerd
I’m a nerd, that’s the word, That says I’m smart you turd, Your insult now is blurred, This is the same as saying honky, I’d have said right up your donkey, That’s your ass, sasafrass, When you have power you … Continue reading
Assigning IQs to Freud and Jung
Psychology has taken to assigning IQs to people who have never taken IQ tests. Einstein only garners an IQ of 160, thus we have to put up with an article every week that declares a kid “smarter than Einstein”. Who … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Pseudo Science, Science, Social Science
Tagged according to me Freud's IQ is about 33, according to me Jung has an IQ of 14, Carl Jung, Einstein has been said to only have an IQ of 160, Einstein never took an IQ test, Freud obsessed with sex, Freud's greatest work may be The Interpretation of Dreams, Intelligence Quotient, IQ, IQ is mental age over real age times 100, Jung was best known for his archetypes, psychology, Sigmund Freud
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All Alien Spaceships
What can we say about alien spaceships that hasn’t already been speculated on? Well I just noticed two things that are the same with all alien encounters that are depicted on the screen. The aliens always have lights and some … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged "aliens" might be getting rid of cancerous polyps, alien abductees, alien spaceships are lit up and windy, aliens, anal probes, colonoscopy, government helicopters, is government too benevolent, spaceships, stealth helicopters are relatively silent, stealth planes are invisible to radar, UFOs
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More Bad News for Edgar Rice Burroughs
Well actually the man is dead so it’s not that bad of news. I am just bothering to get around to attacking the foundations of his Tarzan series of books. Not because they are bad writing (although coincidences do abound … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged babies raised by animals, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Greystoke, human babies can't cling as well as ape babies, human babies cry too loud and too long, indigenous people of africa a lot like Tarzan, John Carter, Mars life is very small if real, Pelucidar, raised by apes, raised by wolves, Romulus and Remus, Tarzan, Tarzan yell likely to get a child Tarzan killed
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