In case you don't know it, the Navy is not the 1970s "Village People" branch of the military. These guys do some cool stuff and are making even cooler toys to do it with.
Want to find future tech for
megawatt-class laser beams in next-generation weapon systems? The Navy. Want to go completely science fiction and find work on a railgun with a projectile that rides an electromagnetic current to its target? The Navy.
I enjoyed a drink one time with a fellow who was, even for science blogging, left of left. I won't name names because it doesn't matter, he is a talented writer and a good guy but I always feel like he loves politics more than science and his persistent belief that Republicans/conservatives/right wing neo-cons/Nazis/(insert your favorite term here) are anti-science and progressives are not seemed rather odd. But I have written about the
Democratic War On Science many times.
Can complex traits lost during evolution recur later? It was an academic argument but now it has some more data. Writing in Evolution, a study analyzes Gastrotheca guentheri , a tree frog with teeth in its lower jaw, separating if from every other frog.
Fantasy baseball as fans understand it today began in the 1980s but actual fantasy baseball, beyond kids trading baseball cards, began 50 years ago. Hal Rickman, an accountant in New York City, started finalizing work on something he had begun when he was much younger. It was Strat-O-Matic Baseball.
Rickman told USA Today's Mike James that as a young boy he rolled dice 5,000 times to make a table of probabilities and looked at baseball statistics in the newspaper to match probability to performance and see what would happen. In 1961 he started producing the game and later the year Roger Maris would eclipse the ghost of Babe Ruth for the single season home run record.
When it comes to pet positions, the more fundamentalist leftwing bloggers in science love to note how anti-science Republicans are, despite Pres. Bush doubling the NIH budget and increasing the NASA budget 15% after a decline of 5% during the 8 years Pres. Clinton was in office.
They have to be anti-science because, you know, they are Republicans. So if right wing people put the brakes on human embryonic stem cell research because, at the time the technology was really created in the late 1990s no one was sure about its implications, they are stupid and hate science. If left wing people continue to regard genetically modified organisms as a concern, that's just the precautionary principle.
In the 'gay sex is bad unless it's women' cultural milieu, a survey by a University of Texas at Austin psychologist determined that men are more than twice as likely to continue dating a girlfriend who has cheated on them with another woman than if she cheated with another man.
The survey used 700 college students so calibrate accordingly - men may not like their girlfriends sleeping with another guy but a girlfriend sleeping with another girl is a porn movie.
Evolutionary Psychology: Your Parents Income During Pregnancy Made You Gay
Oil Kept Congo From Starving - Western Academics Don't Seem To Like That
China Sells Western Progressives Solar Panels While Switching To Nuclear Power
If You Care About Earth Day, Stop Buying Organic, Fair Trade And Other Junk Stickers On Products
