Random Thoughts

Is Woo the New Hitler?

Godwin's Law says, "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."  Since I started with the comparison, we can hopefully move forward:-)  The reason I think the analogy is apt ...

Blog Post - Rafe Furst - Nov 20 2010 - 2:29pm

Lucid Dreams...What's up with them?

I was 16 or so when my dad listened to me tell him about the dream I had the night before. I laughed it off and thought my dreams were for entertainment purposes only. Then he suggested that the next time I was in a dream I should try to look at my hands. ...

Blog Post - Marianne Addison - Nov 29 2010 - 1:02am

A Musical Tribute To The Media

In light of today's *way* over-hyped reporting of "new alien life" discovered by NASA-funded research (GFAJ-1, the arsenic microbe), I thought this song would be appropriate. By the way, find out the scoop on the NASA announcement here. ...

Blog Post - Andrea Kuszewski - Dec 4 2010 - 7:45pm

Logic, Questions, And The Needs Of The Disabled

Recently, two posts of Lisa Jo Rudy’s at About.com have garnered the disdain of loyal AoA (Age of Autism blog) readers. Anne Dachel felt strongly enough to write a lengthy post about the upcoming tsunami (The AoAites are nothing if not consistent in their ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Dec 2 2010 - 3:55pm

Names And Behavior: Santa's Naughty And Nice List Revealed

It seems that Abigail and Jacob will be at the top of Santa's gift-list this Christmas morning. A school rewards site says that children with these names are most likely to behave well.   Little girls called Beth and little boys named Josh will not b ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2010 - 4:56pm

Science 2.0 and the Comics

Science 2.0 is making the cartoon circuit! One of my recent pieces on the brain, computers, and the vagueness of language (Why Meanings Must Be Fuzzy) motivated this comic strip at Calamities of Nature: http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=462 ...

Blog Post - Mark Changizi - Dec 2 2010 - 10:52pm

The End of a Semester and Thoughts on Critical Thinking

The semester is all over except for finals week, so this weekend and next week will have me busy grading all the papers I assigned. It's good work, busy work, and nice to see how much stronger writers and thinkers my students have become through the c ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Dec 5 2010 - 4:08pm

Puzzles (and Garth Sundem) take over the NY Times Science section

Like puzzles?  Who doesn't? Long-time Science 2.0 contributor Garth Sundem- and by long time I mean loooong time, since 2006, during the beta period- is in the New York Times Science section during their theme on puzzles.     ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 7 2010 - 10:48am

iPhone Goes Where Droid Has Gone Before

Just saw a PR blurb about a new iPhone game called Squid Kid. Squid Kid lets the player swing in any direction, cut corners, find short cuts and capture the most notorious villains the ocean has ever seen, what more do you want!... SquidKid's touch co ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Dec 10 2010 - 7:58pm

The Sentient Cell

An excellent interview-style article created by one of my Facebook colleagues, Sniff Code. A hybridized product of Science and Philosophy. Introduction: Dr. Shapiro believes that it might be time for science to rethink its model of Intelligent Life. His p ...

Blog Post - Vikki Cvichiee - Jun 29 2011 - 4:28pm