So a well-meaning friend shared a post from one of those "kemikuls r bad / big-pharma keeps us sick for profit / magical diluted fairy water cures cancer" type pages, which in turn was a link from a similarly themed website. The link was to an…
Happy very monumentally important arbitrarily chosen date marking the anniversary of the Bris Mila of the Made Up Son of the Great Imaginary Friend, even though the Big Book of Made Up Stuff kind of hints at, and history records, that the census Joe…
A short lesson in why freaking out about a "chemical" because it is "derived from" something nasty (or nasty-sounding) or is "similar to" some other chemical, or contains an element or component that would be nasty in some other compound is…
Imagine if an average-sized freighter, like any of the ones routinely waiting in English Bay, loaded with about 800 40' shipping containers of bananas were to sink off the coast of Japan. Would you be worried? Based on the amount of radioactive…
Ever noticed that when people walk into their quarters on the Enterprise (ST:NG) they first thing they usually say is "Computer: lights". Why are they off in the first place? Does it matter at all if they just leave them on all the time (except to…
If the world were reduced to the size of an apple, the crust of the earth—the solid ground and seemingly immutable mountains that we take for granted—would be thinner than the apple's skin. Below that, a seething sphere of liquid rock diabolically…
Whilst eating a teriyaki chicken burger yesterday it occurred to me that from a evolutionary point of view, chickens are a wildly successful species. I cannot think of any other bird that exists in the numbers and with the truly global range that…
I first read about this on Gizmodo in the summer and I have been meaning to write about it since.
This device made by Global Resource Corp. is capable of breaking down hydrocarbons into gas an oil. The implications of this technology far, far more…
