Clik here to view.
David Vitter Continues Humiliating Christians
David Vitter is the right wing extremist senator from Louisiana, obviously a Republican. He earned national fame when his was found in the “DC Madame’s” client book. Mr Vitter loves the prostitutes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Final Frontier – The Oceans
Almost a quarter (23 %) of our planet is a single mountain rangle. Mars is mapped in more detail than our most extreme geographical feature. Beneath the surface of the ocean, deep, deep under the water...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Amazing Statistics
Of course, that’s if any statistic can be called amazing? 90 % of everybody who’s been alive, has died. We should be happy that aging is the #1 cause of death, according to Nick Bostrom.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is Spam the Dominant Species?
A friend told me we should round up all the spammers, and throw them off the Golden Gate Bridge, down to the sharks below. Trouble is, others will take their place. Spammers, sadly, aren’t a hereditary...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who or What is a Native American?
Am I? It sounds like a dumb question, both the title of this post, and whether I’m a Native American. After all, my family came here from Russia. But I was born here, in California, as were my parents....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Only Use 10 % of our Brains = Myth
“Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors” –Ralph Waldo Emerson This is a popular (nay, undying) urban legend, that humans only use some minute fraction of our brains. Usually it’s around 10...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Does This Look Like?
A clade is a branch (from the Greek). Modern usage has this depict branches in a tree, and cladistics is the taxonomy of the tree of life. Here is the source of the paradigm the chart above fits...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Uncertain History of Life on Earth
Might there be life on other worlds? We know the deck is stacked against life coming into being from non living molecules. We know this because it doesn’t happen very often – not last week in Denmark,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Orb
From TED – This was created with a noble purpose in mind, and I’d encourage everybody to learn more about it. This, also, is a fascinating piece of technology. The Orb turns a handful of LED lights...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Human Language vs SQL Computation
SQL Server offers a number of ways to get at your data. You don’t explicitly choose – it has options, and it picks the most applicable data access method for a query and the structure of the data. I...
View Article
