Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Saturday, July 31st, 2010
There's a post on the blog "Treknicalities" that raises an interesting question. The question is, as the post is titled, "How Fast Is Too Fast?"
To illustrate the question, in the TOS episode "The Naked Time", when the Enterprise succeeds in pulling away from PSI2000 they are thrown back in ...
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
One of the many things that there is an abundance of in this world is people in pain. I'm not just talking about the little "ouch" pains, or even the bigger "damn that hurt!" pains. I'm talking about excruciating pain that pretty much rules and ruins not just ...
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
I'm a little behind on my reading which normally means that I end up skimming through most of the stuff that's backed up and overdue to be looked at and properly disposed of but when I saw this story from Princeton University I just HAD to give it a closer ...
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
I just saw a piece on Wired about the discovery of a planet that's actually cool enough to have a composition and history similar to the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn in our own solar system. Not only that, it's orbit is such that it passes between it's star ...
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
I just saw a post on the University of California Irvine website that shows a possible link between people that have a genetic variant that causes their brains to produce less of a "brain-derived neurotrophic factor". Some 30 percent of Americans have this variant gene.
I guess that means that ...
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