Category Archives: Science

According to the BBC, someone has claimed to have proven Rienmann’s Hypothesis — dealing with out prime numbers are distributed among other non-prime numbers. Read Prime Number Mystery for the Samablog entry and Greatest maths problem ‘solved’ for the BBC … Continue reading →

And hear the scream of a meteor as it tears its way through the air. You see a giant cloud of dirt and smoke rise up, strangely silent. About 20 seconds later, a giant wave of sound slaps you backwards. … Continue reading →

I’ve been pondering the implications of a world awash in RFID tags. I’m quite certain that most (if not all) of the RFID experiments have taken place in “controlled” environments. I know enough about RFID to know that the presence … Continue reading →

Now we can have diseases and infections that hearken back to the days before we had anti-biotics. Read BW Online | April 12, 2004 | Killer Staph Is Hitting The Streets for yet another article about some disturbing news. One … Continue reading →

Bet that title got your attention. Bet that someone has clicked here after googling some combination of the words above. So why are we willing to believe outlandish things? You don’t see Fido wearing an aluminum foil skullcap to fend … Continue reading →

This has been in my draft status for some time and I’m finally (basically) link dumping here. In Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Friedrich the Great, Virginia Postrel documents the life of Friedrich Hayek, a Nobel … Continue reading →

Yahoo has an article about a GM flower that turns red when in the presence of nitrogen-dioxide — material that evaporates from land mines. This sterile plant can be sown over a suspected landmine field and the resulting red plants … Continue reading →

Do parabens increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer? Don’t know, but significant traces have been found in tumors. This may be an effect rather than a cause. I’ve also seen studies on bras causing breast cancer as well. DW … Continue reading →

Sam Barros (a engineering major currently a co-op at a nuclear power plant) has a website chocked full of experiments. Visit Sam Barros’ PowerLabs! to view them. [Via MetaFilter]