Category Archives: Science

Why Can’t the Seat of Emotions be in Another Organ

Posted on 9 November 2011 by Larry Russwurm

It’s oh so poetical to say our emotions are in our heart. This leads to sometimes stupid symbolism like “Show me the shape of your heart.” But probably the most famous metaphor is to say you are heartbroken when somebody … Continue reading →

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Poor Millionaires and a Possible Penance for Cherry

Posted on 19 October 2011 by Larry Russwurm

It’s becoming more and more well documented that concussions are serious. Largely news of this reaches us from the sport of football and studies done on exNFLers. Which makes sense – the most likely sport for getting a concussion is … Continue reading →

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Are You Taking a ConCERN Position on the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on 14 October 2011 by Larry Russwurm

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider or LHC has drawn so much interest that some of it is negative. There are fears that we’re dealing with forces of nature we don’t know how to control or how they fully work. Look, that’s … Continue reading →

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TV Weathermen Aren’t Scientists

Posted on 1 October 2011 by Larry Russwurm

In a nearby riding, Kitchener Centre, Progressive Conservative candidate Dave MacDonald is running for election for the Ontario government. He is a former weatherman for the CTV network in southwestern Ontario. In Canada, there is no accreditation to allow the … Continue reading →

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Glowing Cats

Posted on 17 September 2011 by Larry Russwurm

Now that the world has discovered green glowing cats the question is why. This article gives a picture as well as a more complete story. Apparently scientists inserted monkey genes in cat eggs that protected against feline AIDS. As a … Continue reading →

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“My Shower Curtain is a Slut”

Posted on 3 September 2011 by Larry Russwurm

The following letter was sent to this site as a comment on my post The Horny Shower Curtain. I have moved it over here to its own area for comments: Dear Many Rants of Larry Russwurm, I’ve looked all over … Continue reading →

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Solving the Exercise Difficulty

Posted on 25 August 2011 by Larry Russwurm

There is a loophole in my post of last week. In that post I explained that couch potatoes if they exercised 15 minutes a day to get 3 years of extra life, this was equivalent to 1.2 years of solid … Continue reading →

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Hope for Couch Potatoes

Posted on 20 August 2011 by Larry Russwurm

It was a much ballyhooed study that took the media by storm for a day. As little as 15 minutes a day of exercise can add an average of 3 years of extra life. You could tell the media was … Continue reading →

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Obese and Wonderful

Posted on 5 August 2011 by Larry Russwurm

The obese and wonderful segment of the population, while perhaps being bad in a few ways, is good in at least one way. Of course much of the public would see any increase in obese numbers as bad and unwanted. … Continue reading →

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A Cheap Papercraft Future

Posted on 30 July 2011 by Larry Russwurm

This first of my cheaply wrought photographs shows me with something on my left forearm. You see with some of the flexible, paper thick computer hype, the obvious has been thrown about: the prediction of wearable computers. That is my … Continue reading →

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