Music in stores. You go into a store to buy something and then your ears are assaulted by crappy music. Even when the music is good you don't want to listen to it while you fucking shopping. Half the time I'm in a store I have a fucking headache because of the fucking music. Why [...]

I tried to write a post about this before but it turned into a post about how we are gods. When talking about GM food, cloning, stem cell research, etc some one will inevitably use a tired old cliché argument "your/they're playing god". They say these while they use computers made or metals that have [...]

I wasn't going to do any posting tod- ... tonight except for one but when I saw this story I had to post about. Lab yeast make evolutionary leap to multicellularity IN JUST a few weeks single-celled yeast have evolved into a multicellular organism, complete with division of labour between cells. This suggests that the [...]

Expelled on the block? Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed — the 2008 creationist propaganda movie fronted by Ben Stein — is scheduled to be auctioned, lock, stock, and barrel, pursuant to the bankruptcy proceeding of Premise Media Holdings LP. According to a document (PDF) filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of [...]

Ahh! Its coming right at us! Run for the hills! Get as high as you can so the radiation will give us mutant powers! I hope I get the power to stretch. ... No! Not for that reason, I uh, I um. I just want to be able to grab things that are far away. [...]

Found at Unreasonable Faith

The Monty Hall Problem comes from the game show Let's Make a Deal which was hosted by Monty Hall. On the show the contestants had to choose between three doors, behind one was a car and behind the other two were goats. Once the contestant chose a door Monty Hall would open one of the [...]

Voyager 1 Reaches Surprisingly Calm Boundary of Interstellar Space The Voyager 1 spacecraft is at the limit of the 'heliosheath', where particles streaming from the Sun clash with the gases of the galaxy. Contrary to scientists' expectation of a sharp, violent edge, the boundary seems to be a tepid place, where the solar wind mingles [...]

Not really, they did trap anti-matter for 15 minutes though. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/06/antimatter-atom-held-trapped-for-15-minutes.ars Earlier this year, a research collaboration at CERN announced that it had created a few dozen atoms of antihydrogen, the antimatter equivalent of the more familiar hydrogen atoms. These anti-atoms were kept in existence for just under 200 milliseconds before they annihilated in collisions [...]

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