Archive for January, 2010
Holton Secret Lab
Marci Holton, who with her husband Bill run Holton Secret Lab over in Helix, e-mailed the other day.
“We have posted a new video to YouTube as of late last night. I actually uploaded it on Sunday but then YouTube was not happy with my music so yesterday I had to find music [...]
Nuclear Tourism (Part II)
So the National Park Service, at the direction of Congress, is studying four Manhattan Project sites for inclusion as a unit in the national park system.
(You can link to the NPS Web site dealing with this issue here.)
The sites being looked at are Hanford Site (motto: “Sixty-five years old and still hot!”); Los Alamos, N.M.; [...]
Holiday Decoration Police Needed
So I’m driving to work this morning in the winter pre-dawn dark and I see them glowing in the gloom.
Christmas lights. Still up, still on, violating all the laws of God, man and nature.
It’s bad enough that we have holiday creep which has crammed Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas into what cartoonist Tim Rickard calls “Thanksweenmas” [...]
I’m feeling very evolutionary today
“Women’s suspicion that men are Neanderthals less likely than ever” the headline read.
The article was about the Y (as in “guy”) chromosome and the fact that it has been found evolving faster than the rest of the genetic code.
“It’s an almost ongoing churning of gene reconstruction,” said Dr. David Page of the prestigious Whitehead Institute [...]
Welcome to the jungle
Let’s file this one under the heading of “I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.”
I’m working my way through a lecture series titled “The United States in the Middle East: 1914 to 9/11″ by Prof. Salim Yaqub of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
(Shameless plug here, I bought this from The Teaching Company, [...]
The future, which is happening now
So here we are in 2010 and there STILL aren’t any flying cars.
We’re kind of shy on personal rocket backpacks as well, despite James Bond using one to escape bad guys once.
And what about interstellar flight to interstellar colonies? Or for that matter scheduled Pan Am flights to the moon? (Complete with stewardesses using Velcro-bottomed [...]
