Category Archives: Science

Months Long Vampire Party

Posted on 18 August 2012 by Larry Russwurm

The months long vampire party should just be winding down at the South Pole. The vampires had thrown off the shackles of the daylight cycle and escaped past the Antarctic Circle for the months of permanent darkness. So freeing was … Continue reading →

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Mobile Naked Scanners

Posted on 4 July 2012 by Larry Russwurm

You’ve probably already heard of the mobile naked scanners, that can see you naked on the street the same way the controversial airport scanners can see you naked. But, thankfully, much thought will be put into each scanner’s crew. Different … Continue reading →

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Bed Bugs Cause Fatigue

Posted on 23 June 2012 by Larry Russwurm

More information gets circulated about bed bugs as they become more and more common. The pesticides we formerly used on them have been banned. I knew we would become a bit more susceptible to them but a new public information … Continue reading →

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The Story of the Lost Hijja

Posted on 21 June 2012 by Larry Russwurm

Climate change deniers pose as the other side of the climate change “debate”. Well, I’ve got news for them. Climate change science isn’t the other pole of the spectrum. Indeed climate change scientists are centrists. The other pole of climate … Continue reading →

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Give a Monkey a Brain and He’ll Swear He’s the Centre of the Universe

Posted on 9 June 2012 by Larry Russwurm

That’s not my title, it’s from a Fishbone album in the ’90s but it suits my post nicely. A long, long time ago in the eighties, I was thinking about what I want to do with my life as far … Continue reading →

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To Boldly Go Where Men Have Gone Before

Posted on 23 May 2012 by Larry Russwurm

By now many of you who are old Star Trek fans will have heard the news that James Doohan’s (Scotty’s) ashes have made it into space. And I bet some of you are thinking neat, and I’d like to put … Continue reading →

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Monopoly Pricing

Posted on 19 May 2012 by Larry Russwurm

In this first story Spacex (provider of space flights) decides to partner with Bigelow (potential maker of a private space station). This of course means less competition in space and thus lesser incentives to improve technologies and pricing. But this … Continue reading →

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Someone Forgot His Oath This Morning

Posted on 25 April 2012 by Larry Russwurm

The Green Lantern plummeted out of the sky quickly. Suddenly his ring made a giant green bouncy castle and that is where he landed. The gathered scientists just coughed and kicked stones, waiting for the superhero to stop bouncing. Finally … Continue reading →

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What if Average Height Keeps Increasing?

Posted on 15 February 2012 by Larry Russwurm

I was going to cite the information tidbit that was in the margins of one of my elementary school textbooks that said, ‘children will grow up to be one inch taller than their same sex parent’. This may have been … Continue reading →

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Making Sense Out of Cell Replenishment

Posted on 8 February 2012 by Larry Russwurm

Perhaps you’ve heard that every seven years, your bodily cells replenish themselves. Or maybe you’ve heard it happens every ten years. Well I have heard this, too. The seven year thing, especially, makes sense. After all if you’ve broken a … Continue reading →

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