Random Thoughts

Physicist Sean Carroll is a total diva!

Science 2.0, being about openness and outreach and participation,  can attract its share of kooks.  Depending on the whims of the community moderators around that day, goofy, speculative nonsense can even stay on the front page as a blog for a while.  It c ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 7 2010 - 7:01pm

Moods Cloak, Emotions Flitter: Thoughts regarding Faith and Vengeance

"In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist."-- Hitchens ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Aug 9 2010 - 8:31pm

Nick Jonas, Jordin Sparks Chair The National Youth Leadership Committee Of The Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration

LOS ANGELES, August 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/-- The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation announced today the formation of the National Youth Leadership Committee for the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration. Each of these 38 young athletes, entertainers, and ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 9 2010 - 5:22pm

Worldwide Plastic Surgery Statistics Are In- And The US Wins By A Nose!

The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) has produced the ISAPS Biennial Global Survey(TM) of plastic surgeons and procedures in the top 25 countries and regions- representing 75% of all procedures in 2009.  They say this ISAPS Surve ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2010 - 10:19pm

Tears For Pakistan

Tears For Pakistan A great tragedy is unfolding in Pakistan.  There is not a single region of Pakistan unaffected by floods.  Whole villages have been wiped out and agriculture lost.  How will these people be fed.  Formerly, the USA and Russia could be re ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Aug 10 2010 - 8:14am

Under An August Cloud

Yesterday, I seemed to be under a giant cloud, with lots up in the air. A difficult ghostwriting deadline for an article about clouds loomed, but the Tortoise Cat signaled we were overdue for a territorial stroll. As late afternoon blew in and we set off ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Aug 14 2010 - 2:56am

Will The Black Prince Reappear To Reclaim The New Mysterious Island Or L'Ile Mysterieuse?

About 18 months ago, in late January 2009, during the tempestuous cyclone Klaus in France, which killed 26 people and wreaked enormous damage to the nearby once ancient region of Aquitaine, a new island suddenly appeared, 7 miles out to sea in the mouth o ...

Article - Helen Barratt - Aug 15 2010 - 1:50pm

Dog's Family Status Higher in "City" People?

A post on the Science Codex caught my attention (You think of your dog as one of your children? You probably live in the city). Of course, my first reaction was that this guy clearly lived in the city to have such an opinion.  However on closer reading I r ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Aug 15 2010 - 9:37pm

An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

Anthropology rules!    If a physicist tried to do a research study playing "World of Warcraft" for 3 years his peers would say, "Don't try to church it up, Tommaso, you're just playing World of Warcraft" but when an ethnograph ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 18 2010 - 6:01pm

The Ultimate Science Nerd Love Song

I found this song in a playlist that an ex had given me; for some reason, I don't ever remember hearing it. Maybe if I had, we'd still be together- who knows? In any case, here it is, Josh Ritter, singing "Stuck to You". He's dream ...

Blog Post - Andrea Kuszewski - Aug 20 2010 - 7:41pm