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... But most of our readers will, rather, think of it as Halloween, a time when people like to think in a playful way about scary ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 31 2013 - 2:20pm - 0 attachments

Halloween is just around the corner, but if you live in California, like me, they aren't doing anything fun. They can't even call it Halloween. So though when you were a kid you might have learned things that ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Oct 29 2013 - 4:30pm - 0 attachments

The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe; even colder than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, which is the natural background temperature of space. How cold is that One degree Kelvin, which is -458 degrees Fahrenheit. T ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2013 - 4:49pm - 0 attachments

... However , both of these methods were impacted by the "Halloween Events" of October/November 2003 which were not reflected in the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2013 - 7:45am - 0 attachments

Nick Duffy is co-founder of the West Midlands Ghost Club (1989) and since then members of the club have been visiting the spookiest and scariest places around the region, using audio visual equipment, temperature recordings and trigger objects such as cru ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Jun 6 2013 - 9:20am - 0 attachments

... Sure, that is nice too. My idea is more fun around Halloween. NOTE: (1) Can you come up with a better slogan?  I ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 6 2013 - 11:32am - 0 attachments

In parts 1 and 2 of this series, I undertook a (much longer than anticipated) personal investigation into how scientists discuss the effects of cannabis as a way of trying to better it, both as a drug and as a cultural subject. The articles gene ...

Article - David Sloan - Jan 18 2013 - 1:10pm - 0 attachments

In 1987, unthinking, primitive pre-GMO breeders exploited an abandoned shelter cat in Montana, with no one to defend it, for their own nefarious ends when it was discovered that this feline pawn gave birth to a curly-haired kitten. The kitten was then rap ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 19 2013 - 10:53pm - 0 attachments

Archaeologists have unearthed an almost 2,400-year-old treasure in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria.  The Thracians lived in Bulgaria and parts of modern Greece, Romania, Macedonia, and Turkey from 4,000 B.C. until they were wiped out a ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Nov 8 2012 - 10:15pm - 0 attachments

Are you healthier if you eat cupcake from a mix you buy in a grocery store, which would be required to have a GMO label if California's Proposition 37 passes, or an 'organic' cupcake from Whole Foods? On a science site, you know I would not ask that qu ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 27 2012 - 11:16am - 0 attachments