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Steve Higgins is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, Steve is a real graduate student at a real school.

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I don't know jack about global warming

If you're a regular reader of this blog I'm sure you've realized by now that we never post on global warming. It's not because we don't care.. we do! I promise. It's just that I really don't know anything about the debate at all. Someone could tell me that we...

Posted on November 13, 2007 9:14 AM • • 0 TrackBacks

Congratulations Russia on your New Environmentally Friendly Super Bomb!

Congratulations Russia on your great new bomb that is nicknamed the "dad of all bombs" and is four times more powerful than the U.S. "mother of all bombs." "The tests have shown that the new air-delivered ordnance is comparable to a nuclear weapon in its efficiency and capability," said Col.-Gen....

Posted on September 12, 2007 12:42 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Gorillas in the fog - Not a case of inattentional blindness

We all know, thanks to Dan Simons and Chris Chabris (unless you've been living under a rock), that if we're really paying attention to something we can miss something else entirely... like a gorilla walking into the middle of a room and banging on its chest. Check out the video...

Posted on June 11, 2007 11:37 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Worlds tallest man saves dolphins

Very very strange- this was so out of the ordinary I felt the need to post it here :) The world's tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards. Mongolian herdsman Bao Xishun was called in...

Posted on December 14, 2006 12:20 PM • • 0 TrackBacks

Eviiiilllll scientists look at promiscuous queen bees.

For some reason this research sounds like it was done by that short criminal guy from the Princess Bride (you know... the one who gets poisoned?) Check out this quote from one of the Authors: "This required a particularly nasty experiment, in which we inoculated colonies with the most virulent...

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Posted on December 11, 2006 10:09 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks