July 22, 2006
Goodbye "Casual Pi" Day
Darn it. Can't believe we missed this!Everyone please note: Tomorrow is Casual Pi Day. Tomorrow's date, written European style, is 22/7, a good approximation to Pi.Ah well, we'll just have to go back to using the rounded approximation: 3.14159 26535...June 13, 2006
"A Great Eye, Lidless, Wreathed In Flame"
Is it any coincidence that CBS News is still covering this story about the discovery of Hobbits?We think not....May 24, 2006
If Only Paramount Had Warned Us Sooner
V'ger is still truckin' along, now at the boundary of our solar system. No word yet on if anybody remembers the code to stop it from wiping us all out in a couple centuries when it returns....April 18, 2006
The Nuclear Winner
As the recent Pulitzer prizes awarded demonstrate, finding any degree of sanity in print media these days is pretty much nil. So imagine our surprise this morning at finding this, while sifting through the Washington Post: In 1979, Jane Fonda...April 12, 2006
Scientists Dissenting From Global Warming Alarmism Are Censored?!
M.Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, writing an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal is claiming -Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry...