NASA Xmas Presents To You

NASA Xmas Presents To You

Given all the NASA funding, you think we'd get something from it!  Oh, wait, we do.  SpaceRef pointed me to the NASA SpinOff 2010 report.  What did we get for our $19 billion annual…
Daytime Dining On Squid: An Oceanography Lesson

Daytime Dining On Squid: An Oceanography Lesson

Blue sharks in the Gulf Stream, in the western Atlantic, probably spend all day eating squid. At first, that doesn't seem remarkable. Every big predator likes to eat squid, and sharks are no…
Christmas Science 2.0

Christmas Science 2.0

What do you get when you cross Science 2.0, the cultural buzzterm that really took off in 2010 (and brought with it a whole host of colloquial meanings veering into 'web 2.0-ish, it means whatever…
Millions Shop For Cyber Boxing Day Sales

Millions Shop For Cyber Boxing Day Sales

LONDON, December 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- eCoupons.com announced the second annual Cyber Boxing Day, the online version of the manic Boxing Day frenzy minus crowded shopping malls, limited inventory…
ADHD And The War On Drugs

ADHD And The War On Drugs

One more of the many crazy results of the idiotic “war on drugs” is that we have to pay lots of money for chemicals that actually cost next to nothing. For example, adding up time and money spent on…