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Category Archives: Science
The Prison
Let’s follow the academic career of a typical scientist to see just exactly where they are coming from. First up is elementary school where the scientist-to-be has a slightly better math aptitude. It is also possible for her to be … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged academic carreer of a scientist, electives, elementary school, high school, junior high, logic aptitude, Master's, math aptitude, Ph.D., prerequisites, prison of own making, professor, research grants, science is curosity driven, scientist, stockholm syndrome, tenure, University
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Eat $#!+ and Live
No this title is not an example of a sentence that is totally changed with the insertion of commas. It is uncomfortable because it needs to be. For a very long time scientists have dreamt of resurrecting the woolly mammoths. … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Science, Science Fiction, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged arctic, artificial womb, baby elephants must eat their mother's scat, ban ivory, cloning, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, elephants are being killed faster than they can reproduce, gene splicing, gut flora, Ice Age Park, Indian elephant, ivory, mammoths, Panda eats shoots and leaves, petitions to save elephants, swear words, woolly mammoths
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Lauding Economics but Dissing the Hard Sciences is a Recipe for Disaster
Politicians mostly hang on every word of an economist. They give that art its highest praise (as evidenced in practice) while trying to cherry pick the hard sciences of physics, chemistry and biology. Briefly I had a computer alias as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Politics, Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 99.9% of affected scientists believe in global warming, biology, chemistry, cherry picking, collusion, competition, economics is an art, economics may be a discipline but that doesn't make it a science, economists, economystic, global warming, hard, hard sciences, Loblaw Companies Ltd., market, ogilopolies and monopolies, physics, politicians, soft, supply and demand
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The Power of the Call Waiting Beep
Most people have used call waiting by now. You know, you’re talking to someone then someone else phones you, too. You hear a beep and you can switch between the first caller and the second caller. Why am I walking … Continue reading
The Vehicle Arms Race Begins
The overprotected generation has continued past the age of 16. You know what I mean; that generation that is almost loved to the point of being smothered with their ever present helmets and padding. Before the age of 16 that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Humour, Science
Tagged arms race on our roads, best crash test results ever, big SUVs intimidate, big vehicles, cars, inexperienced drivers, make cars like bullets or arrows to intimidate, normal car drivers are at risk the most, not sweet after age 16, smothered with helmets and padding, sports utility vehicles, superstructures for cars can help, SUVs, the overprotected generation, worst drivers on road in toughest vehicles
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Super Plan of the Diamond Giants
Since 1938 the diamond mining giants have been running scared. That date is important because it marks the 1st time that Superman appeared on the scene. Soon after, it was revealed that Superman had this trick of squeezing coal just … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Science, Science Fiction
Tagged 1938, artificial diamonds, artificial diamonds are cheaper, De Beers tried to be a premium diamond brand, diamond mining giants, even De Beers just entered the artificial diamond market, natural diamonds, squeezing coal into diamonds, Superman, Superman could flood the diamond market, windows of diamond, with good enough equipment you can tell mined diamonds from artificial ones
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Time Traveling Like an Animal
Certain earth animals can time travel two different ways. They are both methods of what I call ignorant time travel. If you can somehow ignore time’s ordinary passage and “wake up” in the future – that is ignorant time travel. … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Science Fiction, Wry
Tagged animals, bears, blood freezes first, can now fly like animals, corpsicles, could skip winter in future, cryogenics, experimenting on humans, freezing and thawing, Futurama, hibernater and human hybrid, hibernation, human and wood frog hybrid, ignorant time travel, Larry Niven, liver fills cells with glucose, science fiction authors, suspended animation, time travel, time travel to the future only, tropes, water sucked out of cells, wood frogs
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Why We Won’t Find Aliens by SETI
Those aliens, precisely because they are intelligent, are in hiding, of course. What else would you do with the human race and its addiction to violence? Transmitting higher technology to us just sounds insane. We are violent when we are … Continue reading
Posted in Humourless, Science, Science Fiction, Wry
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3 Things
First of all tomorrow is Mother’s Day. Ma, you have such a positive image that there have been attempts to corporatize your image. The first one is Mother’s Pizza. This chain of restaurants is back from the dead in Ontario … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Humour, Politics, Science
Tagged collar and button of Wendy, Kitchener-Conestoga, Michael Harris, Mike Harris Jr., Mike Harris Sr., Mom in Wendy's corporate image, Mother's Day, Mother's Pizza, natural end of the solar system, Neptune, Ontario, Pluto, Progressive Conservatives, the VW symbol upside down says Ma, there was a time when Uranus was the end of the solar system, Uranus, William Herschel
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