2012 is coming and, with it, kooky end-of-the-world fables. If the Asgardian calendar and its earthquakes doesn't get us, maybe the Mayans will. Some people even like to combine Doomsday prophecies - the LHC might bring the end of the world by opening a black hole and out pop Mayans armed with strangelet-powered weapons. read...
read moreWe've all met people who ask what college we went to - it's a silly question, the first time it happens (well, if you are out of college anyway) but soon you learn it is simply a segue for the questioner to tell you what college they went to.So no matter what school you went to, they will then introduce something along the lines of 'I went to a little school in Massachusetts, perhaps you've heard...
read moreTwitter, in its quest to supplant Facebook among literate people and stave off a threat (or not) from GooglePlus, seems to have recently made some changes to its image utility - namely, you can now see images you have Tweeted before.That's good. Maybe it has been around for a while, I have no clue, I never use the actual Twitter.com interface because it is horrid. Yet GooglePlus is...
read moreFar be it from me to consider anything designated by Oprah Winfrey as, perhaps, maybe, not always evidence-based, but I had always hoped some skepticism was in order yet consistently instead found Oprah viewers were not only ready to believe, they were willing to migrate to other shows and believe there also. read...
read morePoliticians throw out a lot of anecdotes, especially if it is one told by a constituent or potential voter, so Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann throwing forth a story told to her that the HPV vaccine caused a child's retardation would be just that, a story. Even it if is a just-so story.Except she's a Republican. And so academics have offered $10,000 for the source of that story. read...
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