general nerd/geek info

Christmas Eve and Sunny

I am currently at my parent’s house in Eastern Kentucky, where love is abundant and internet connections are sparse. Prior to that, I was frolicking throughout Florida and costal Georgia with my children and my parents. I’ll tell you more about that odyssey in a Honda Odyssey when I return to civilization, AKA: the Land… Read more Christmas Eve and Sunny

Fed Up

Have any of you seen the movie Fed Up? It’s on Netflix now and it is absolutely magnificent. “Fed Up is a 2014 American documentary film directed, written and produced by Stephanie Soechtig. The film focuses on the causes of obesity in the US, presenting evidence showing that the large quantities of sugar in processed… Read more Fed Up

This Is Science?

There is something very wrong when the editor of Elsevier Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology, Dr A. Wallace Hayes, caved to political pressure and retracted a long-term PEER-REVIEWED study on the toxic effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in 2013. You can read a pfd of the paper here: http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/glyphosate/NancySwanson.pdf The lead author on… Read more This Is Science?

Busy as a Beaver

Happy news! The Eurasian beaver, which was hunted into extinction in England by the 12th century and was wiped out in Scotland by the 1500s, is back! Some reintroduced wild beavers in Devon, England have produced the first kits in 400 years or so. Happy!! “Tom Buckley, a retired scientist and wildlife enthusiast from Ottery… Read more Busy as a Beaver

I’ve been using the word “Luddite” wrong

Like most people, I have accepted the ‘given’ definition of Luddite as someone who fears technology. I even, being the word-geek that I am, knew the term originated from machine-breakers in the early ninetieth century. The reasons the Luddites broke new automated looms was because the feared and hated new devilish technology, right? Wrong. The… Read more I’ve been using the word “Luddite” wrong

The Science Behind Astrology?

Well, I’ll be darned like a sock. Astrologers are at least partially right; a new scientific study published today in the peer-reviewed journal Comprehensive Psychology shows it turns out people actually ARE influenced by the day of their birth. The article,  “Astrology as a culturally transmitted heuristic scheme for understanding seasonality effects: a response to… Read more The Science Behind Astrology?