Scientists have found a way to stop the spread of malaria without killing the mosquitoes that are a part of nature – even if I hate getting bitten.
Wow! Look at the lives we can save when we don’t blow all our cash on making new boner meds for old guys!
Get some sleep. It’s good for you. No, really.
Caught the first episode of the series tonight. Good stuff. A little dumbed down but entertaining all the same.
Science!
The world hasn’t ended. We haven’t breached space/time. All the naysayers and religious freakazoids are wrong. Just like they are about AIDS being a punishment against gays. Or climate change being wrong. Or about how it’s God’s will for them to bomb brown people. Just plain wrong.
Here is what the folks at the Large Hadron Collider have actually been up to.
Resmomation. Keep that word in mind because it may be the next way to get rid of human remains. Kinda creepy to be honest, but if there is a way to do this safely and respectfully – and without any potential Soylent Green connotations – then what the heck, right?
Our President picked a Nobel Prize-winning certified genius in charge of the Department of Energy. If anyone in the Obama cabinet can help turn the tide on climate change and in running our society’s power sources in a smarter way, it’s Stephen Chu.
Our knowledge of our solar system expands as the mystery of Jupiter’s Red Spot becomes clearer.
This is what the Talibangelical morons want to destroy: the knowledge of all things.
Science!
I mean, I already knew this nation was filled with people proud of their ignorance. Besides the random Oakland Raiders fans and folks who actually enjoyCeline Dion, you’ve got the risk of Tea Party Traitors who genuflect in orgasmic glee and supported – and voted for – a complete nitwit for Vice President.
What I did NOT know was that our lack of educated citizens – and geeky folks in particular – was a national security risk. So sayeth DARPA. Read about it here.
Yep, your birther/Talibangelical co-workers, neighbors, and family members are in league with the enemies of America. THEY are the problem.
As for you: go read and play with gadgets!
Here’s an ethical dilemma for you: we almost have the science to resurrect extinct animals. Where to begin? The dodo bird? Passenger pigeons? Woolly mammoths?
More importantly, where to end? Do we go so far as to bring back Neanderthals? I’m pretty sure it won’t go like Encino Man.
One of the worst crimes of the Bush years – indeed of any Luddite conservative policy – is that we basically turned off the spigot of new scientific learning through an active policy of fear and loathing of science. The genetic throwbacks ruining our education system are going to destroy a generation of young minds with their creationism and bullshit watered-down science as well.
The Chinese communist system may be lacking in a lot of things, but their ability to turn on their nation’s creative juices for researching green energy solutions is one of the reasons that their economy may eclipse our’s in the coming years.
And we’ll have the conservative’s fearful interference and our own spineless response to their anti-American stupidity to blame when it happens.