Category Archives: Science

And Now For Some Oedipus

I took The Freud Quiz: “13/20. You passed, but not by much.” Yet another trauma I’ll have to live with.

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Frunobulax

“Monster movies have extensively explored scaling relationships, albeit usually incorrectly; knowing the true relationships often puts the entire movie into a new light.” Here’s one for the peasants in the area: a scientific look at the biology of B-Movie monsters. … Continue reading

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Day of Misery

The formula for the day of misery reads 1/8W+(D-d) 3/8xTQ MxNA. Where W is weather, D is debt – minus the money (d) due on January’s pay day – and T is the time since Christmas. And when is this … Continue reading

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Tastes Like Chicken

The field of culinary evolution faces one great dilemma: why do most cooked, exotic meats taste like cooked Gallus gallus, the domestic chicken?

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I Am Learn

“I wrote a ridiculous Perl program to generate text. Thing is, it developed some bugs, and has managed to create phrases and combinations of words (which actually make sense) that I didn’t even program in. I hooked it up to … Continue reading

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Meet Robostrider

A tiny robot that can walk on the surface of the water. Interesting. But, please, check Fig 5. What is this? Is this a censored picture of two water striders, caught in the act..? Notice the euphemism in the text … Continue reading

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Shiny Happy Brits

If you travel to the UK one of these days, don’t be surprized to see nothing but shiny happy people.

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Whoda Thunk

American researchers from the University of Pennsylvania recently spent some time researching why the French remain so much slimmer than Americans. After intensive study, they came to a remarkable conclusion. It was because the French ate less.

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Short-Term What?

To all those that tell me I have terrible short-term memory (you know who you are): I finally have a plausible excuse.

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The Shy

“Normally, relationships progress by way of a reasonably paced flow of self-disclosure that is reciprocal in nature. A disclosure process that moves too quickly–and computer anonymity removes the stigma of getting sexually explicit–doesn’t just destroy courtship; it is a reliable … Continue reading

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Mango Shark

The chances of finding a shark like Mango are about one in a million.

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