Category Archives: Science

The least volatile election ever?

Posted on July 26, 2012 by

Good morning, Disagreeables. Back on May 31, both inuyesta and yours truly posted predictions for how the November presidential election would turn out. I posted this map: And inuyesta posted a map that looked similar, with just one exception being … Continue reading →

Posted in Elections, POTUS, Pretty Charts, Science | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

San Diego Natural History Museum Trip Report

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

As mentioned, we took the boys down to the San Diego Natural History Museum to see the Titanic Exhibit. It was really crowded but a lot of fun. We were each given a souvenir White Star Line “ticket” with the … Continue reading →

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Neil deGrasse Tyson remix

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

Neil deGrasse Tyson makes a great point in this video (and others) about how the space race was such a driving force in our culture and how it paid dividends far beyond the ability to put a man on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy, Engineering, Science | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

High School student may have cured cancer

Posted on March 10, 2012 by

Simply amazing, humbling, mind-blowing, you name it. Here’s a short video of Zhang explaining her project. Here’s the longer CBS News story. It won’t play here so you’ll have to watch it on YouTube. I wonder if Rick Santorum would … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Healthcare, Science | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

On ghetto-ing MIT

Posted on February 26, 2012 by

Last week Brandon Briscoe (MIT, class of 2014) published an incendiary article on the decline of MIT’s excellence in The Tech (MIT’s student newspaper). http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N4/briscoe.html In short, Mr. Briscoe argues that affirmative action policies are ruining MIT’s standards and ability … Continue reading →

Posted in False Balance, Inequality, Science, Society | 6 Comments

NASA Captures Video of Earth-Sized Sun Tornado

Posted on February 17, 2012 by

First, a link to the video and accompanying story.  Here’s a quote from the story, in case the title of this post isn’t enough to make you click it. Terry Kucera, a solar physicist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told … Continue reading →

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