Random Thoughts

A surge protector between your cable box/internet and your own electronics.

Approximately $1500 worth of fried electronics has taught me a valuable lesson. ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 24 2009 - 12:14am

Announcing The "Where's Garth's Book?" Contest

You're all either old enough or young enough to remember "Where's Waldo?"   It involved a lovable scamp with glasses who would get himself trapped in awfully complex situations and only keen eyes could rescue him. We have our own lovabl ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 24 2009 - 5:24pm

Frankly Embarassing

The happy nights of Italy's Premier Silvio Berlusconi, now documented in hot recordings taken by Escort Patrizia D'Addario, have by now circled the free world (in Italy they are only available to readers of a couple of newspapers allegedly " ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 25 2009 - 2:27pm

Physics and emotion

Indexed comes through on a Monday morning, as always! ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 27 2009 - 9:50am

Who Moved My Cheese (wheel)?

There are no words to explain this. Perhaps British folk like Patrick can explain. Cheese rolling is a sport, according to ESPN's E:60. It's just like the running of the bulls in Pamplona, except it's in England, and you're chasing chee ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 29 2009 - 7:41am

Cereal Semantics

This really takes the cake- or, the rice krispies, as it were. As Josh so cleverly described, General Mills took one for the team when FDA sent a warning letter about the claim on GM's Cheerios box that it lowers cholesterol. So when I saw "IMMUN ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jul 29 2009 - 12:17pm

Economics- Profitability

In reading some posts regarding health care reform, someone made a comment that struck me as unusual regarding the pharmaceuticals, namely that they had a right to make a profit too. What an interesting phrase; "a right to make a profit". Of cour ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Aug 3 2009 - 2:41am

The Daytime Astronomer on Summer Web Traffic

I've noticed that my readership numbers are lower in summer, often only half as much as usual.  Bearing in mind I only launched in Spring, there was a noticeable drop as we hit (especially) July and now August.  With my non-science web column, I' ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Aug 7 2009 - 12:10pm

Economic Theory- Supply and Demand Part 2

In considering some of the comments made on the original posting, I realized that there were some variations and refinements in discussing supply and demand that warranted additional consideration. In light of those comments, let me refine the definition o ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Aug 4 2009 - 2:42am

Science is arriving Sept. 1!!

What's that, you say? Science is coming? I thought it was already here- then what are we talking about on Scientific Blogging? Fear not, befuddled blog readers. For when I speak of science coming to us, I speak of only the most spectacular, the most e ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Aug 4 2009 - 9:11am