Tag: science

Friday Fun Link – Unique Flavour Combinations (July 17, 2009)

A pretty fun Ask MetaFilter question asks what are the most strange yet enjoyable food and flavour combinations you know?  Here's a few samples…– ham and peanut butter–

"Even Firefox Thinks That Shit Is Ridiculous"

You love celebrity gossip, admit it.  And when I need my fix, I visit What Would Tyler Durden Do (wwtdd.com) which has some of the funniest snarky comments

Ocean Currents Could Power The World

The flip side of my interest in the idea of Peak Oil is stories like this one.

Thirst

This slideshow won a recent competition for “Best Slideshow” on Slideshare… THIRST View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design crisis)

10 Questions That Every Intelligent Christian Must Answer

This video, from the web site “Why Doesn't God Heal Amputees?“, poses some provocative questions.  Or perhaps we should just be calling for a Truce on Religion?  (Oh,

Evolution Proven in Lab

This story's a month old now but I'm not sure how many people saw it – a scientist who studied bacteria for 44 000 generations (since 1988) has

Saskaboom

No, not the catchy Feist song… Instead, “Saskaboom” was the name given to a feature that CBC's “The National” aired last night on Saskatchewan and our booming economy. 

A Peek at Peak Oil

Peak Oil is a theory that is increasingly relevant as the price of oil and gasoline continue to skyrocket.  It was first proposed in the 1950's by an

More Than Babble: Baby's First Words May Be Key To Origins of Spoken Language

Pace is babbling up a storm these days (what's the line?  “You spend the first few months of their lives waiting for them to talk and the next

Six Ideas That Will Change The World

Six Ideas That Will Change the World(I also fixed the broken link in yesterday's post if anybody wants to see my paper and presentation on e-branch services for

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