Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal tackles logic for those of you who don't like Latin:
It wasn't easy to like "Superman Returns". Certainly, it was designed to reboot the franchise after "Superman II" but it ended up needing a reboot of its own. There were a few good sequences but overall it fell flat.Movies from comic books are big. Really big. Too big to let the most recognizable superhero in the world sit on the shelf for too long so, like Batman after the George Clooney fiasco, or even Hulk, which Marvel tried to reboot, with limited success (yet another actor will play him in the Avengers movie) after Ang Lee's flop, Superman is getting another makeover.
Usage-Based Billing, where users pay for access by the Giga-Bit, hasn't been around since the 1990s - we think, anyway. It's been a long time since AOL was able to use that business model to become so large they could acquire Time-Warner in the biggest transfer of pretend Internet money ever.It's still around in Europe, where they don't mind paying more for stuff, but if it's going to be resurrected in the America's, the best place to try is where no one ever protests - Canada.
David Weisman separates himself from the too-prevalent Psychology Today quackfest by noting that the thing we take as our unified mind doesn't really exist, "it is easily fractured into separate parts, in which the subject maintains subjective unity through the use of confabulation" something Buddhism has long contend.But, as we all know, "When science supports a particular religious teaching, you can expect members of that religion to become strict empiricists, telling themselves and the world that their belief is grounded in reality."
An escaped convict from an Arizona prison intended to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him. It didn't work, police caught him and took him back to jail. Looks like Yogi will need a different picnic basket.
Yes, the humanities get a free pass today because California State University, Northridge math professor Tihomir Petrov was arrested for peeing on another professor's door. So math professors are not above being ridiculous either. 43-year-old Petrov apparently had a squabble with a colleague, whose named has been withheld to protect the ridiculous.
Linhenykus monodactylus has been identified as the first dinosaur with just one finger. The new dinosaur belongs to the Alvarezsauroidea, a branch of the carnivorous dinosaur group Theropoda. Theropods gave rise to modern birds and include such famous dinosaurs as Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptor.This specimen is the only known dinosaur with one finger, and highlights the wide variety of evolutionary modifications of the hand that existed in different theropods.
Homeopathy is under fire because, in a modern world where evidence is easy to find, people can easily learn that duck liver diluted in trillions and trillions of gallons of water will not actually cure the flu.
Talk about a quandary; science writers across the board have been critical of Andrew Wakefield and his linking of vaccines and autism, which set off a decade of concern before being laid to rest. But in a world where every person who feels oppressed by Big Science claims they are just like Galileo, prosecuting a researcher for bad data needs to be done with caution.Yes, though prosecuting someone who falsifies patient histories is another matter entirely.
In the Valley of the Moon, high in the Andes, a team of paleontologists and geologists have announced the discovery of a dinosaur ' at the root of the dinosaur family tree' which roamed South America as the age of dinosaurs began approximately 230 million years ago.It had a long neck and tail and weighed only 10 to 15 pounds. They have aptly named the new dinosaur Eodromaeus - the "dawn runner."
