Category Archives: Science & Technology

All stuff covered by Science and Technology with some having subcategories like Apple Technology, Astronomy and whatever else hits my fancy.

This saved me at least $200

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Steve

Last week I dropped my iPhone and the glass cracked because it landed glass-side down. Initially, it looked fine until I had a background on the screen. Boom! I could see the hairline crack. I was rather pissed at myself. … Continue reading →

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They’ll float too!

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Steve

What looks like a clump of peat moss is really a fire ant colony floating around until they find dry land. If there really is a hell, these stinging little SOBs would be permanent fixtures. When there’s a flood, fire … Continue reading →

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PhotoLab is my new toy on my new iPad

Posted on July 22, 2017 by Steve

The initial app is free on iOS but I spent the five bucks to ditch the ads. It’s pretty similar to the Photofunia site. I finally found a combination that didn’t “wash out” the main subject of the picture. This … Continue reading →

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Overcrowded bird nest in a weird spot!

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Steve

Above is a bird nest some weird breed constructed right on the security camera of my friends. You can’t see every baby bird but there are four crammed in there. Mama bird hasn’t been seen lately. When I first noticed … Continue reading →

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Science prevailed over Big Jesus, Chapter ???

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Steve

The State Board of Education, which has a noisy contingent of Factually-Challenged types (aka, Willfully Ignorant “Christians”), have taken a step forward on future Science books for Texas high schools. For over 30 years the creationists have demanded unnecessary skeptical … Continue reading →

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It seems we live in the Anthropocene Period

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Steve

Last week, co-host Brooke Gladstone of On the Media interviewed stratigrapher Jan Zalasiewicz. They discussed what aliens or future humans would find if they dug up our epoch for the Holocene Era (starts around 7000 BC) is definitely over. The period I think … Continue reading →

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Norway is on right track by killing FM

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Steve

This story made the rounds through NPR and other outlets which still actually feature information not involving a bigoted Barbie changing networks. I don’t know the numbers and logistics for Norway but ‘Merica could go forward on this too. Practically … Continue reading →

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A tale of two genetic tests

Posted on November 6, 2016 by Steve

The results are in! And they’re kind of muddy. Hell, they don’t quite agree which makes me wonder what each company’s criteria are for an ethnic group, especially when they lump at least two very distinctive peoples into something as amorphous … Continue reading →

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Italian #43: Giovanni Schiaparelli

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Steve

This year, my tribute to famous Italians has been heavy on the Science side, namely Astronomy but Dr. Schiaparelli is relevant due to the joint ESA-Russia Schiaparelli mission to Mars. Today is the day the probe makes its attempt to land … Continue reading →

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Italian #42: Dr. Camillo Golgi

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Steve

In the spirit of all those Nobel prizes being awarded, I decided to look up who was the first Italian to receive one and it was this gentleman; it was for Medicine. Golgi was considered the greatest neuroscientist and biologist of … Continue reading →

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Sweet hippos of San Marcos! Nanobots are real!

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Steve

Today, the Nobel Prize people awarded three European Scientists the 8m Swedish kronor prize in Chemistry for “nano-machines.” Five years earlier, they succeeded in making a molecular “car” drive across a piece of copper. It was only six billionths of a … Continue reading →

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Italian #39: Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Steve

Although Maria never made any breakthrough or major contribution to math, she was the first European woman to publish a textbook (what they would call a handbook then) which focused on differential and integral calculus. I have little idea what … Continue reading →

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Italian #38: Giuseppe Piazzi

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Steve

With all the news about Rosetta landing on a comet after 12 years in space, I wanted to kick off with the person who discovered the largest asteroid in our solar system, or maybe it’s a dwarf planet now…Ceres. Back when I … Continue reading →

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First-person view of a Hot Wheels ride!

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Steve
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Universal comparison

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Steve

Makes you think how small our world is and how immense the multiverse is theoretically given we can only “see” back about 13 billion years and change.

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