Humor
This isn't bad science. It's a whole new ball game. It's below the level of pre-school science.It's unterkindergartnischwissenschaft.
Is Michael O'Leary a virus expert ?
Michael O'Leary is the boss of RyanAir, a budget airline with a not-so-good reputation.
Various sources today quote Michael O'Leary as saying that the swine flu outbreak is only a risk to Asian and Mexican slum dwellers. He thinks that the viral infection can be cured with a common anti-bacterial sweet.
I predict that one of two things will now happen: either people will take this idiot's advice and die, or…
April 27, 2009 is the 218th birthday of Samuel Morse, the creator of Morse code.
Morse code is losing its popularity as a way to signal other ships, but it is still going strong as a way to signal other nerds.
The art of haiku poetry originated in Japan, with roots stretching back to the ninth-century or earlier. According to the US Census of 2000, people of pure Japanese descent make up 16.7% of the population of Hawaii. Residents of Hawaii annually consume nearly seven million cans of SPAM, or about six cans per capita.
If you do the math, it leads you inevitably to the work of Keola Beamer, the Hawaiian slack-key guitar player and leading advocate of SPAM haiku, who graciously contributed the following, deeply moving verses:
Silent, former pigOne communal awarenessMyriad pink bricks …
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Houston, Texas, hometown of both Roger Clemens and Walter Cronkite (and, errr, David Khoresh if we're being comprehensive) is a bellweather city for the US, says a researcher who happens to live in Houston - in that it is now more Democrats than Republicans and minorities are the majority. According to the data, if this trend continues and it's really indicative of a nationwide trend as claimed, Houston (and therefore all of America) could be hispanic gay men by 2030.
Stephen Klineberg is a Rice University sociologist and, for 28 years, director of an annual event called the…
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Social media is a funny creature. Try explaining it to someone in a third world country. Heck, try explaining it to someone who lives next door and isn't on a social media site.
We're the kind of hybrid magazine/blog/community/social media site that defies explanation even more but when I tell someone about it, they will invariably say "So you're like Facebook." Sure ... except for scientists. Who write articles. And comment about them. It beats spending an hour trying to explain that we're more like Scientific American for smart people. …
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There was once a controversy about human embryonic stem cell research - former president Bush put in place limited forms of research in 2001, to the outcry of science advocates who vilified his close-mindedness and then president Obama put in place limited forms of research on Friday and science advocates cheered the progressive thinking in his deft handling of the NIH policy. Yeah, you are probably confused in that 'why it was wrong for Bush to limit research in 2001 and why it is right for Obama to do it today' thinking of people who basically just frame their science positions…
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Quick, can you answer the question about the dog with the neuromuscular disease myasthenia gravis? If not, you'd be lost at Neurobowl, the highlight of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.
Poseurs need not apply. Though they all know the drinking game, these cats make fun of the medical riddles and the doctors on the TV show "House." Except for Olivia Wilde ("Thirteen"). They all like her.
Take a stab at these as you read and see how you did at the end.
A man has abdominal pain and loses skin on the palms of his hands and soles of his feet.…
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I know the science may be good, but it's too hard not to make fun of these research conclusions - at least the out-of-context, oversimplified versions of these conclusions. Look at what we've learned through science today:
Facebook Users Get Worse Grades in College Yes, it really is harder to study while checking messages on your wall every five minutes.
Jail Time Increases Odds of Hypertension, Researchers Find Jail is stressful - who would've guessed?
When you see a mountain lion, run like hell! ...even though it can easily outrun you.
Junk Food Makes Kids Fatter, But…
Please be warned.
The only link to science is really the single word "ornithologist".
Unless you are studying humour, that is.
For The Birds, a very short story worth reading.