Headline of the day
Indian man dies in pie-eating contest (ValleyWag)
Some jobs just shouldn't be outsourced
Finally, a use for all the Cabbo Wabbo that never sold.
Mexican scientists turn tequila into diamonds (USA Today)
It's said these "tequila diamonds" aren't suitable for jewelry, but they could be used to "detect radiation, coat cutting tools or, above all, as a substitute for silicon in the computer chips of the future."
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Making Science More Better For You 11/19/08
Headline of the day
| Undercover officers use Taser on pallbearer (AP) Yeah, some days are like that. | |
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Making Science More Better For You on 11/18/08
Headlines of the day
Vicar hospitalised with potato up his bum (Metro.co.uk)
The report went on to say, “He explained to me, quite sincerely, he had been hanging curtains naked in the kitchen when he fell backwards on to the kitchen table and on to a potato.” This reminds us of an old joke that involved a proctologist, a dozen roses and a note.
Fast-food order may have led to father-son shooting (Chron.com)
Sounds like someone wanted it his way.
Polish foreign minister: Obama's grandfather was a cannibal! (Drudge)
That’s nothing. We hear the foreign minister’s grandfather was Polish.
Scoop: Spears to appear at 30 Rock tree lighting (MSNBC)
Hope they told her this has nothing to do with firing up a blunt.
Breaking News—Sad people will stare at anything. Also, happily married couples have more sex. Honest. Film at 11 (No, not that kind of film)....
Study: Unhappy people watch more TV (James Hibberd thr.com)
An extensive new research study has found that unhappy people watch more TV while those consider themselves happy spend more time reading and socializing.
The University of Maryland analyzed 34 years of data collected from more than 45,000 participants and found that watching TV might make you feel good in the short term but is more likely to lead to overall unhappiness.
"The pattern for daily TV use is particularly dramatic, with 'not happy' people estimating over 30% more TV hours per day than 'very happy' people," the study says. "Television viewing is a pleasurable enough activity with no lasting benefit, and it pushes aside time spent in other activities -- ones that might be less immediately pleasurable, but that would provide long-term benefits in one’s condition. In other words, TV does cause people to be less happy."
The study, published in the December issue of Social Indicators Research, analyzed data from thousands of people who recorded their daily activities in diaries over the course of several decades. Researchers found that activities such as sex, reading and socializing correlated with the highest levels of overall happiness.
Watching TV, on the other hand, was the only activity that had a direct correlation with unhappiness.
"TV is not judgmental nor difficult, so people with few social skills or resources for other activities can engage in it," says the study. "Furthermore, chronic unhappiness can be socially and personally debilitating and can interfere with work and most social and personal activities, but even the unhappiest people can click a remote and be passively entertained by a TV. In other words, the causal order is reversed for people who watch television; unhappiness leads to television viewing."
Vicar hospitalised with potato up his bum (Metro.co.uk)
The report went on to say, “He explained to me, quite sincerely, he had been hanging curtains naked in the kitchen when he fell backwards on to the kitchen table and on to a potato.” This reminds us of an old joke that involved a proctologist, a dozen roses and a note.
Fast-food order may have led to father-son shooting (Chron.com)
Sounds like someone wanted it his way.
Polish foreign minister: Obama's grandfather was a cannibal! (Drudge)
That’s nothing. We hear the foreign minister’s grandfather was Polish.
Scoop: Spears to appear at 30 Rock tree lighting (MSNBC)
Hope they told her this has nothing to do with firing up a blunt.
Breaking News—Sad people will stare at anything. Also, happily married couples have more sex. Honest. Film at 11 (No, not that kind of film)....
Study: Unhappy people watch more TV (James Hibberd thr.com)
An extensive new research study has found that unhappy people watch more TV while those consider themselves happy spend more time reading and socializing.
The University of Maryland analyzed 34 years of data collected from more than 45,000 participants and found that watching TV might make you feel good in the short term but is more likely to lead to overall unhappiness.
"The pattern for daily TV use is particularly dramatic, with 'not happy' people estimating over 30% more TV hours per day than 'very happy' people," the study says. "Television viewing is a pleasurable enough activity with no lasting benefit, and it pushes aside time spent in other activities -- ones that might be less immediately pleasurable, but that would provide long-term benefits in one’s condition. In other words, TV does cause people to be less happy."
The study, published in the December issue of Social Indicators Research, analyzed data from thousands of people who recorded their daily activities in diaries over the course of several decades. Researchers found that activities such as sex, reading and socializing correlated with the highest levels of overall happiness.
Watching TV, on the other hand, was the only activity that had a direct correlation with unhappiness.
"TV is not judgmental nor difficult, so people with few social skills or resources for other activities can engage in it," says the study. "Furthermore, chronic unhappiness can be socially and personally debilitating and can interfere with work and most social and personal activities, but even the unhappiest people can click a remote and be passively entertained by a TV. In other words, the causal order is reversed for people who watch television; unhappiness leads to television viewing."
Friday, November 14, 2008
Making Science More Better For You 11/14/08
Headlines of the day
Beer truck driver apparently drunk at time of I-70 accident (Rocky Mtn News)
There’s a joke about carrying coal to Newcastle in here somewhere.
Villagers steal Russian church — brick by brick (MSNBC)
So, that's where Legos come from.
"It turned out that stickleback fish preferred to follow larger over smaller leaders," said Ashley Ward of Sydney University. "Not only that, but they also preferred fat over thin, healthy over ill, and so on. The part that really caught our eye was that these preferences grew as the group size increased, through some kind of positive social feedback mechanism."
Fish follow leaders, ain't got no parkin' meters.....
Now you know what happened to all those old lava lamps.
Mysterious glowing aurora over Saturn confounds scientists
By Daily Mail Reporter
A stunning light display over Saturn has stumped scientists who say it behaves unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system.
The blueish-green glow was found over the ringed planet's north polar region just like Earth's northern lights.
It was discovered by the infrared instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
The northern polar region of Saturn shows both the aurora and underlying atmosphere, as captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft
'We've never seen an aurora like this elsewhere,' said Tom Stallard, a scientist working with Cassini data at the University of Leicester.
'This aurora covers an enormous area across the pole. Our current ideas on what forms Saturn's aurora predict that this region should be empty, so finding such a bright aurora here is a fantastic surprise.'
Beer truck driver apparently drunk at time of I-70 accident (Rocky Mtn News)
There’s a joke about carrying coal to Newcastle in here somewhere.
Villagers steal Russian church — brick by brick (MSNBC)
So, that's where Legos come from.
But humans are much more evolved. No, really.
Fish choose Their Leaders By Consensus
ScienceDaily (Nov. 14, 2008) — Just after Americans have headed to the polls to elect their next president, a new report in the November 13th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, reveals how one species of fish picks its leaders: Most of the time they reach a consensus to go for the more attractive of two candidates.
"It turned out that stickleback fish preferred to follow larger over smaller leaders," said Ashley Ward of Sydney University. "Not only that, but they also preferred fat over thin, healthy over ill, and so on. The part that really caught our eye was that these preferences grew as the group size increased, through some kind of positive social feedback mechanism."
Fish follow leaders, ain't got no parkin' meters.....
Now you know what happened to all those old lava lamps.
Mysterious glowing aurora over Saturn confounds scientists
By Daily Mail Reporter
A stunning light display over Saturn has stumped scientists who say it behaves unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system.
The blueish-green glow was found over the ringed planet's north polar region just like Earth's northern lights.
It was discovered by the infrared instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
The northern polar region of Saturn shows both the aurora and underlying atmosphere, as captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft
'We've never seen an aurora like this elsewhere,' said Tom Stallard, a scientist working with Cassini data at the University of Leicester.
'This aurora covers an enormous area across the pole. Our current ideas on what forms Saturn's aurora predict that this region should be empty, so finding such a bright aurora here is a fantastic surprise.'
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Making Science More Better For You on 11/12/08
Headlines of the day
After a year of hiccups, man ready to die (CNN)
Guess it’s been more than he could swallow.
Boxing gym in Ohio hit by thieves who steal ring (SI)
Sounds like the plot for "Rocky 8.6." Anybody seen that Stallone guy lately?
Gay rights protesters disrupt Sunday service (LSJ.com)
So, how long have you folks been in marketing?
Are they out to get you? Paranoia on the rise (MSNBC)
Burroughs said," a paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
"What a field day for the heat..."
After a year of hiccups, man ready to die (CNN)
Guess it’s been more than he could swallow.
Boxing gym in Ohio hit by thieves who steal ring (SI)
Sounds like the plot for "Rocky 8.6." Anybody seen that Stallone guy lately?
Gay rights protesters disrupt Sunday service (LSJ.com)
So, how long have you folks been in marketing?
Are they out to get you? Paranoia on the rise (MSNBC)
Burroughs said," a paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
"What a field day for the heat..."
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Making Science More Better For You on 11/11/08
Headlines of the day
Man's coffin kills wife on way to cemetery (MSNBC)
"Do not go gently into that...hey, look out."
Missing 150-year-old tortoise is back home (SF Gate)
It turns out that he was missing for six weeks. He would have been there sooner but, well, he is a tortoise after all.
Man's coffin kills wife on way to cemetery (MSNBC)
"Do not go gently into that...hey, look out."
Missing 150-year-old tortoise is back home (SF Gate)
It turns out that he was missing for six weeks. He would have been there sooner but, well, he is a tortoise after all.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Making Science More Better For You on 11/04/08
Headlines of the day
Party Host In Manatee Arrested After Guest Loses His Ear (TBO.COM)
Now that's a party. It's not easy keeping the correct meth to Bud ratio.
Nudists want to vote in the buff (CNN)
We're not going to make any jokes about pulling the lever, not us.
Flag-waving gunman closes Calif. highway for hours (AP)
Police identified the man as 28-year-old Eddie Van Tassel, proving that you can't make up the good ones.
A political interlude recycled from this past January
(It seems appropriate)
Senator Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vermont) recent endorsement of Barack Obama offered the candidate more than just the support of a member of the Senate’s old guard.
It also provided Senator Obama with entree to an relatively untilled voting block—Grateful Dead fans. Leahy is perhaps the most visible “Dead Head” among politicians.” He has been known to play “Truckin’” at his post-election rallies, claims “Black Muddy River” as his favorite song and sent a congratulatory video to Bob Weir when the band received a Lifetime Achieve Award at the 2002 Jammy’s. Please, no pajama jokes. It’s been done.
While Senator John Kerry’s endorsement brought with it a gilded rolodex and held the potential of access to George Soros and the like, Leahy’s offers the chance to all patchoulied up with folks like “The Grilled Cheese Guy” and several young ladies who go by the sobriquet “Moonbeam.”
It also offers the rest of us the hope that, should he win, the new President might deliver an inaugural speech that goes something like this.
“Well the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry any more,
'Cause when life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door.
Think this through with me, let me know your mind,
Wo, oh, what I want to know, is are you kind?”
“Who can deny, who can deny, it's not just a change in style?
One step down and another begun and I wonder how many miles.”
“See here how everything led up to this day,
And it's just like any other day that's ever been.
Sun going up and then the sun going down.”
“I have spent my life seeking all that's still unsung.
Bent my ear to hear the tune, and closed my eyes to see.
When there was no strings to play, you played to me.”
“Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me;
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me What a long, strange trip it's been.”
“I love you all, but Jesus loves you the best”
And I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.”
Oh, and one more thing… we think he's going to "get a miracle."
Peace out Yo
Party Host In Manatee Arrested After Guest Loses His Ear (TBO.COM)
Now that's a party. It's not easy keeping the correct meth to Bud ratio.
Nudists want to vote in the buff (CNN)
We're not going to make any jokes about pulling the lever, not us.
Flag-waving gunman closes Calif. highway for hours (AP)
Police identified the man as 28-year-old Eddie Van Tassel, proving that you can't make up the good ones.
A political interlude recycled from this past January
(It seems appropriate)
Senator Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vermont) recent endorsement of Barack Obama offered the candidate more than just the support of a member of the Senate’s old guard.
It also provided Senator Obama with entree to an relatively untilled voting block—Grateful Dead fans. Leahy is perhaps the most visible “Dead Head” among politicians.” He has been known to play “Truckin’” at his post-election rallies, claims “Black Muddy River” as his favorite song and sent a congratulatory video to Bob Weir when the band received a Lifetime Achieve Award at the 2002 Jammy’s. Please, no pajama jokes. It’s been done.
While Senator John Kerry’s endorsement brought with it a gilded rolodex and held the potential of access to George Soros and the like, Leahy’s offers the chance to all patchoulied up with folks like “The Grilled Cheese Guy” and several young ladies who go by the sobriquet “Moonbeam.”
It also offers the rest of us the hope that, should he win, the new President might deliver an inaugural speech that goes something like this.
My fellow citizens.
“Well the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry any more,
'Cause when life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door.
Think this through with me, let me know your mind,
Wo, oh, what I want to know, is are you kind?”
“Who can deny, who can deny, it's not just a change in style?
One step down and another begun and I wonder how many miles.”
“See here how everything led up to this day,
And it's just like any other day that's ever been.
Sun going up and then the sun going down.”
“I have spent my life seeking all that's still unsung.
Bent my ear to hear the tune, and closed my eyes to see.
When there was no strings to play, you played to me.”
“Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me;
Other times I can barely see.
Lately it occurs to me What a long, strange trip it's been.”
“I love you all, but Jesus loves you the best”
And I bid you goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.”
Oh, and one more thing… we think he's going to "get a miracle."
Peace out Yo
Monday, November 3, 2008
Making Science More Better For You on 11/03/08
Headline of the day
Ex-Playboy bunny faces cat cruelty charges (CNN)
Sounds like a case for Dr. Moreau.
Ex-Playboy bunny faces cat cruelty charges (CNN)
Sounds like a case for Dr. Moreau.
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