Random Thoughts

It's Great To Be Back! I wish to apologize to all of my readers for being AWOL for so long without a word of explanation. I have had a severe pain in my right arm from an unknown cause, and this has been made unbearable by any attempt to type. This ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Sep 15 2012 - 9:21pm

Early Oktobertfest Treat For Hot Weather- A Beer Milkshake

Has global warming made it too darn hot to think about autumn events like Oktoberfest? Can't choose between a milkshake and a beer? You are in luck, the Red Robin restaurant chain is simply mixing the two. A cold beer milkshake can appeal to beer e ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:31pm

The Need to Label: Autism as Identity and Community Building

I've been reflecting on autism and what makes a disability and what makes a personality, as I wait for the APA to get its shit together and release the new DSM. Will the change in criteria mean my children are suddenly no longer autistic? (No, it won ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Sep 23 2012 - 5:12pm

The Quote of the Week

" A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest." W. Churchill ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 5 2012 - 9:36am

Bad Economic News: Beer Consumption Continues Decline

How can you tell the American recession is still worrisome, despite government worker unemployment only being 4.3%? Beer sales have fallen again. You'd think beer sales would go up in a bad economy, like it does historically, right? Cheap entertain ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:17pm

The Power To Label: Finding Our Own Swagger

One of the interesting things in the online autism world is how the use of labels and definitions created by mental health professionals are being taken over by the community. Autism is redefined away from a mental disorder to a neurological difference, an ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Oct 6 2012 - 10:30am

Speculations About Early Life

Disclaimer: This blog post is composed of speculative ideas and any resemblance to actual scientific findings is purely coincidental. The beginning of this speculation is oriented around early life forms, not the origin of life, but rather how simple p ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Oct 12 2012 - 2:04pm

Follow Me On Twitter

One of the results of the conference "ComunicareFisica 2012" I attended last week (and about which I wrote extensively in the past few posts) was, for me, getting convinced that Twitter cannot really be ignored. I have subscribed long ago and nev ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 16 2012 - 11:46am

Did You Go To A Restaurant? I Know How You Vote

Are you buying Halloween candy? Don't you know they use child labor to harvest those cocoa beans? You went to Chick-fil-A? So you don't believe gay parents have just as much right to be annoying at a kid's soccer game as everyone else? It ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 17 2012 - 12:01am

The Scientific Method In Fiction Writing: A Hypothesis

Scientists take a great deal of pride in the Scientific Method, and not just because it’s a method named after them. The Method is the basis for their authority. It is the universally accepted tool for finding all facts about the universe, the unbiased st ...

Article - David Sloan - Jan 22 2013 - 5:53pm