Let’s Play a Game!
Monday, April 7th, 2008Test your memory and your knowledge of the elements…
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Ethanol
Sunday, April 6th, 2008With record oil prices once again topping the headlines, today’s “Science Word of the Week” is “Ethanol”.
Ethanol is a colorless volatile flammable liquid. It is a form of alcohol, C2H5OH, found in alcoholic beverages and also used as an additive in gasoline to produce gasohol. Ethanol is used as an oxygenate in reformulated gasoline. It is also [...]
Nothing Matters
Saturday, April 5th, 2008“Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one” Albert Einstein
Matter is all the “stuff” that we see, feel, and smell around us. By definition, matter has mass and takes up space, and it includes substances such as water, wood, rock, metal, and air. At the most basic level, these substances are built from [...]
Intergalactic Bug Bombs
Friday, April 4th, 2008Some astronomers have theorized that the reason we have yet to encounter intellligent extraterrestrial life is that the stars have literally conspired against it. A phenomenon called a gamma ray burst (GRB) could be the cosmic equivalent of a bug bomb, periodically exterminating all lifeforms within their zone of destruction.
Some super massive stars end their lives by emitting an enormously [...]
Why surfing was a bad idea in the Pliocene
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Great white sharks can get very big. The largest on record was caught off the coast of Cuba in 1945. It was a female measuring 21 feet and weighing a whopping 7300 pounds! In comparison, the mythical white shark from the movie Jaws, was a 25 footer. There are anecdotal accounts of great whites as large as 31 feet, although there is [...]
Go replicate me a sandwich, will ya?
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
One of my favorite television series used to be Star Trek: The Next Generation. I loved all of the gadgets they came up with as well as the pseudoscience they used to explain them. There was just enough truth there to make one believe that those devices were really viable. Heck, I even bought a manual that [...]
Evolutionary Tail Fins?
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008We sometimes forget that like everything else on Earth - not to mention the planet itself - we humans are a work in progress. The following are nineteen body parts that are in the process of being deleted from our design…
VOMERONASAL ORGAN
A tiny pit on each side of the septum is lined with nonfunctioning chemoreceptors. They may [...]
