How Far is Planet 9?
This excellent video by a former NASA employee does a great job explaining just how far Planet 9, the mysterious planet that exists way past Pluto, is from our Sun. The planet is so far from the sun t...
Tag: science
3M Rube Goldberg Machine
3M, the company behind office products designed to make your life easier, created a machine that in incredibly complex. I'm talking about a Rube Goldberg Machine 1. A Rube Goldberg machine is a contra...
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Here is a great article article from Scientific American. It's a shame when people throw away logic for fairy tales, myths, and fables. I have to wonder where this country is going. Seems each year a...
Vitter earmarked federal money for creationist group
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., earmarked $100,000 in a spending bill for a Louisiana Christian group that has challenged the teaching of Darwinian evolution in the public school system and to which he has...
Where Babies Come From: The Intelligent Design Explanation
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this comic. Laugh because it's funny, cry because it's true.
Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives
Seen on Slashdot: "Scientists from NYU and UCLA report in Nature Neuroscience that the brains of Democrats and Republicans process information differently. This new study finds that the differences ar...
New Research Proves Single Origin Of Humans In Africa
Just found a really interesting article. New research published in the journal Nature (19 July) has proved the single origin of humans theory by combining studies of global genetic variations in human...
Intelligent Design (Creationism) is Not Science
At least some countries are on the right path: "The Register is reporting that the UK government has stated there is no place in the science curriculum for Intelligent Design and that it can not be ta...
Weapon dates bowhead whale to 1800s
From CNN: A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt -- more than a century ago. Embedded deep und...
My Feed List
I was bored so I thought I'd share with you the websites that are in my feed reader (which is Google Reader). They are: Anna's Blog Caleb Was Here Give Away of the Day (hat tip Mark) Homeland Stupidit...
One-way trip into black hole takes 200,000 years
I find this quite interesting. It seems as each week goes by, science is closer and closer to having another major breakthrough. The next few years will no-doubt bring a huge revelation in the field o...
Jesus 'healed using cannabis'
Jesus was almost certainly a cannabis user and an early proponent of the medicinal properties of the drug, according to a study of scriptural texts published this month. The study suggests that Jesus...
Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin
Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solv...
Astronomers detect light of the first stars
A faint glow from the first stars formed after the Big Bang has been detected. The cluster of stars, known as Population III, is believed to have been formed about 100 million years after the dawn of...
I'm Feeling Lucky
So, I was looking at my mint and noticed that I have been getting a lot of hits from a past article I posted about String Theory Proof. Because I am a stats fiend and like to know everything that is g...
No, It's Not Bigfoot or Nessy...
Its the fabled White Giraffe. A researcher in Africa has finally spotted the rare white giraffe that he's been seeking for twelve years, and he's got a photograph to prove it. Charles Foley, a Wildlif...
Update on Kennewick Man
Kennewick Man yielded a few tantalizing clues to his past yesterday as the team of scientists studying him wrapped up the first phase of its investigation. The skull of the skeleton found on the bank...
Scientists Detail Study of Kennewick Man
As you read this, remember that this man probably never existed. The bible says he couldn't have. Fossils are just put in the earth to test our faith. Oh yes, and Jesus killed the dinosaurs. Cloistere...
Teleportation: Express Lane Space Travel
Think Star Trek: You are here. You want to go there. It's just a matter of teleportation. Thanks to lab experiments, there is growth in the number of "beam me up" believers, but there is an equal amou...
MIT Blog Survey
?Cameron Marlow is a grad student at the MIT Media Lab. To finish his Ph.D., Mr. Marlow is going to be analyzing the results of a survey ?about how people use their weblogs and their general communica...