Archive for April, 2008

A Lot of Hoopla Over Very Little

In the wake of the Pennsylvania Primary, both Democrat candidates are off “spinning” the results — as we expect them to. A closer look at the bottom-line results of Hillary’s “decisive win” shows that it ain’t so darned decisive after all. She picked up — get this — one more delegate than did Mr. Obama. […]

Back Atcha With That Quantum Pencil Lead

Some stories just don’t go away, but get curiouser and curiouser. Now they’ve taken the substance, called graphene, and made a transistor one atom thick by ten atoms wide. That’s pretty damned small and may lead the way to even more breakthroughs in this field. Can the marvels of science keep coming to fruition in […]

“New Reality” Item About Oprah Speaks For Itself :-)

I got a kick out of this item on The Onion that was posted yesterday, and figured it best to share it with the world right here. If you don’t get a laugh out of this one, you should probably 1) lighten up and/or 2) ask yourself why?
Here’s the piece on Oprah’s new Reality

NFL.com’s Top-10 List of Draft Day Steals

While I can’t say that any entry on this list shouldn’t be here, I can say that anyone could remove one and add another, not listed, and pretty much be spot-on right anyway. The fact that it’s NFL.com publishing the opinion on their own “product,” if you will, actually bothers me more than it delights […]

The Graphite from the Tip of a Pencil May Crack the Quantum Code

A major breakthrough in studying the universe, quantum mechanics and more? Maybe. It certainly seems that this breakthrough might be a little more palatable than the £4.5 Billion CERN Particle Accelerator, which is surrounded by controversy. The push to scientifically discover and then exploit a singularity is the fear attached with the CERN project. Could […]