December 2010
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What the Frak Happened to 2010?
It’s almost 01.01.11, and I’m 35,000 ft in the air above Wyoming. Now seems as good a time as any to reflect on what happened over the last year in the tiny nerdosphere I occupy:
1. January
Imagine Greater Ratings: Syfy rides high on ratings for its new Battlestar Galactica spinoff, Caprica. What a difference a year can make.
2. February
The ISS gets a sunroom: Best view in the...
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Merry Christmas!
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Things I'm afraid of, apparently.
Remember the salad days of blogging on that old classic blogging platform…..Blogger? Yes, that’s it. Blogger. Anyways, ages ago I started a blog on blogger because I was reading Transmetropolitan at the time and I imagined myself to be just like Spider Jerusalem, only not bald and not a man and not heavily tattooed. But just as angry, and very filthy.
Long story short, it’s...
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WatchA Very Dr. Who Christmas: Make your own Gingerbread Tardis!
Chef Powder Thompson might be creating the most epic geek cookbook of all time. To prove just how rad this cookbook will be, he’s cut together a brief video on how to make your very own Gingerbread Tardis using just a few household ingredients and a SONIC SCREWDRIVER.
Time travel + baking? Swoooooon.
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World's largest neutrino detector ready to uncover... →
After six years of hard work, scientists have finished building IceCube, a massive neutrino detector buried under 8000 ft. of ice at the South Pole:
Kudos to UW-Madison for their work on this project. Seems brutal Wisconsin winters were useful in preparing for conditions like this:
The construction season at the South Pole is just three months long during the Southern Hemisphere’s...
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An unparalleled scientific investigation into...
In a 1974 volume of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, this remarkable bit of research was published on the self-treatment of “Writer’s Block”:
I’m not sure if you can read the tiny block of comments left by the reviewer, but it would appear that not only was the paper deemed scientifically sound using advanced technologies like lemon juice and x-rays, but it was...
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Unmanned Spaceplane returns to Earth after 7...
An unmanned spaceplane landed itself at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California after being in orbit for 7 months. The craft, called the X-37B, is an approximately one-quarter scale version of a standard space shuttle, and is powered by a combo of lithium batteries and solar panels:
This is the first time in the history of the US space program that a spacecraft has successfully completed...
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“I don’t know about you but I’ve not been so excited about a bacteria since my...”
– -Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz, on NASA’s soon-to-be announced finding of Arsenic-based life forms (on Earth). I’m as excited as the next person over the implications of this finding, but it’s absolutely ridiculous how the media/press has taken NASA’s press release and milked...
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