Why goal keepers hate the new soccer ball used in the World Cup…
Some of the people that are closest to me are smokers, and they know how much I hate seeing them pollute their lungs. Not to mention, I can’t stand it when I’m indoors and people around me puff away – those clouds of smoke just annoy the hell out of me. So here’s an interesting [...]
Just finished reading Fooled By Randomness, a very interesting book. The author appears just a tad bit eccentric and somewhat arrogant at times, but the central thesis of the book is quite interesting – we tend to assign too much determinism to things when often times, all there really is is randomness. The author makes [...]
“The eight-hours mantra has no more scientific basis than the tooth fairy.” I would very much like to believe that!!
My family used to have parrots when we were living in Guatemala, but none of them was as eloquent as this little fella… He sure sounds like a lot of fun.
I drink a lot of coffee, which, according to this article, apparently makes me more likely to say “yes”. Huh. Not sure I agree with that, but what do I know.… On the other hand, I’d certainly agree that caffeine “improves memory and makes us pay closer attention to tasks at hand”.
Once again, Daylight Saving Time has arrived. As much as I love the longer days, I can’t help but feel robbed of an hour every time DST comes around… I woke up this morning looking at my alarm clock (which doesn’t update automatically), and thought, how nice, it’s 9:30, I still have half of this [...]
I think I’ve somehow always know this, but a new study provides proof that capsaicin does indeed kill prostate cancer cells. Good thing I threw out only one of my five chili sauces…
Hey, why not. If it makes you cleverer…
How cool is this… a huge collection of free videos of MIT lectures.
…you should know about procrastination. Luckily I don’t think I belong to the 20% that see themselves as chronic procrastinators.
It amazes me that in this day and age, there are still so many unknown species on our planet, even right at our doorstep… Biologists just discovered 27 new species in a cave right here in California. Imagine all the unknown creatures out there in some of the more remote corners of the earth…
Here is a collection of some of the best images taken by the Hubble telescope. Some of this stuff looks absolutely surreal…. and plain beautiful. The site offers fullsize original pictures with an amazing amount of detail. Pretty neat.
Discussions will start this week in Montreal to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which will expire in 2012. I hope they can come up with something meaningful and effective that is broadly supported (sounds like an oxymoron, I know). Doesn’t it feel like the climate all over the world just keeps on getting [...]
I knew I shouldn’t have quit playing the piano…