Racist “Science”

This is pretty ridiculous, brought to my attention by Angry Asian Man. A couple of Italian “scientists” have written a paper entitled “Down subjects and Oriental population share several specific attitudes and characteristics,” published in Medical Hypotheses. The title alone should give you pause, and although I couldn’t get to the article without paying for [...]

Google Sky

Google’s now got Google Sky, which is the same thing as Earth, except you can scan the night sky and zoom in on your favorite Messier objects. It’s basically a powerful planetarium on your computer, and it’s pretty sweet. To get it, you have to download the latest version of Google Earth.

Ancient Gum

Archaeologists say they’ve found ancient chewing gum in Finland. Among other artifacts, they found  Stone Age birch-bark tar that they say was used for chewing and to fix broken arrowheads and dishes. Now that’s long lasting gum.

Robosquirrels, Islamic Science, and a Stellar Tail

My fellow Slug, Brittany Grayson, has a great little story on squirrels that attack rattlesnakes. Scientists think the squirrels heat up their tails in order to warn the snakes, which see in infrared. The story continues,
“But testing the hypothesis was hard. Training a squirrel to heat up or cool down its tail on command is [...]

I Can’t Write!

Ah, more on the courage to write: Salon’s Cary Tennis emboldens a poor soul who feels he or she can no longer write. Tennis proclaims, to write is to be revolutionary, to claim our existence, to reveal ourselves in all our flawed glory:
Why not celebrate ourselves instead? For soon we will be gone! Now at [...]