Random Thoughts

Bad Economic News: Beer Consumption Continues Decline

How can you tell the American recession is still worrisome, despite government worker unemployment only being 4.3%?  Beer sales have fallen again.  You'd think beer sales would go up in a bad economy, like it does historically, right?  Cheap entertain ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:17pm

The Power To Label: Finding Our Own Swagger

One of the interesting things in the online autism world is how the use of labels and definitions created by mental health professionals are being taken over by the community. Autism is redefined away from a mental disorder to a neurological difference, an ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Oct 6 2012 - 10:30am

Speculations About Early Life

Disclaimer:  This blog post is composed of speculative ideas and any resemblance to actual scientific findings is purely coincidental.   The beginning of this speculation is oriented around early life forms, not the origin of life, but rather how simple p ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Oct 12 2012 - 2:04pm

Follow Me On Twitter

One of the results of the conference "ComunicareFisica 2012" I attended last week (and about which I wrote extensively in the past few posts) was, for me, getting convinced that Twitter cannot really be ignored. I have subscribed long ago and nev ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 16 2012 - 11:46am

Did You Go To A Restaurant? I Know How You Vote

Are you buying Halloween candy?  Don't you know they use child labor to harvest those cocoa beans?  You went to Chick-fil-A?  So you don't believe gay parents have just as much right to be annoying at a kid's soccer game as everyone else? It ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 17 2012 - 12:01am

The Scientific Method In Fiction Writing: A Hypothesis

Scientists take a great deal of pride in the Scientific Method, and not just because it’s a method named after them. The Method is the basis for their authority. It is the universally accepted tool for finding all facts about the universe, the unbiased st ...

Article - David Sloan - Jan 22 2013 - 5:53pm

THE WIRED WORLD IN 2013 Annual Trend Report

What big trends can you expect to take hold in 2013?   THE WIRED WORLD IN 2013 is a new annual trend report that covers a broad range of topics across eight sections; from science to arts, politics to medicine and culture to the environment. I have two art ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 7 2012 - 12:44pm

The Rehabilitation Of Dr. Christmas Jones

When I was a young guy living in Florida, on one station we used to get reruns of a television show called "The Saint". I liked the stick figure cartoon and  the halo that would appear above his head in the beginning. Roger Moore was cool. He bec ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 10 2015 - 3:26am

What is the Main Strategy Behind Black Friday?

Looking at suchlike: Can somebody explain "Black Friday" in scientifically satisfying ways (read: leave your party book out of it)?  What is this seemingly dramatic drop in prices that is adjusted so to endanger public safety rather than to ensur ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 14 2013 - 12:42pm

Continued Reflection On Labels And Defining One's Identity: The DSM Should Not Be One's Guide

I feel stuck, stuck in the continued reflection of what DSM labels mean to individuals and how they conceive their identities. Perhaps this is because so much of what I read on the internet in our online community is about identity and labels. It seems ma ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Nov 24 2012 - 1:07pm