Junk Science?

Political Calculations

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Wernher von Braun

Science for Wednesday

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

Dave Barry

http://youtu.be/E43-CfukEgs

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

Roseanne Barr

If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything

Marty McFly

NASA responds to the end of the world.  Haven’t heard yet?  Check out the earth being struck by a rogue planet, a solar flare destroying Earth, and a magnetic polar shift.

www.forbes.com/

Also worth watching:We stopped dreaming

If you don't like the answer

Abbott's Admonitions:
If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know.
If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.

http://www.c4vct.com/kym/humor/lawuniv.htm

A quiz.  What do the following apply to?

• You can't win.
• You can't break even.
• You can't quit the game.

Scientific theories that you should know

A nonscientist who didn't know the second law of thermodynamics was like a scientist who had never read Shakespeare.

C. P. Snow

Divided Brains

Also see Internet effect on brain

Internet addiction has for the first time been linked with changes in the brain similar to those seen in people addicted to alcohol, cocaine and cannabis. In a groundbreaking study, researchers used MRI scanners to reveal abnormalities in the brains of adolescents who spent many hours on the internet, to the detriment of their social and personal lives. The finding could throw light on other behavioural problems and lead to the development of new approaches to treatment, researchers said.

You can always watch the birth of the universe

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.

Bill Bryson

At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.
Norman Wisdom

You can always watch the birth of the universe

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.

Bill Bryson

At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.
Norman Wisdom

Dark would be without meaning.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

C. S. Lewis

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

Magnetism & The Brain

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250

 

Harper's Index

Due to the lack of experienced trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed for three weeks

Well it’s starting…

A huge eruption of solar radiation is hitting the Earth, and will continue through Saturday. The Class X burst — the most powerful type of solar flare — is the biggest since 2006, and it's expected to kick off a two-year period of intense solar activity. The solar flares occur when "magnetic field lines on the sun's surface in effect get short-circuited" and shoot bursts of energy into space.

The potential impacts:

1. Trigger communication blackouts
2. Fry satellites — and GPS gadgets
3. Destroy years of work on your novel
4. Jazz up the northern lights

theweek.com

news.yahoo.com

000
NOAK48 PAFC 162359
PNSAFC

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK
345 PM AKST WED FEB 16 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ANNOUNCED THAT THERE IS A HIGH
PROBABILITY OF A SIGNIFICANT GEOMAGNETIC STORM OCCURRING FROM
FEBRUARY 17 2011 THROUGH FEBRUARY 20 2011.

G2 (MODERATE) STORM LEVELS ARE EXPECTED, WITH A CHANCE OF G3 (STRONG)
CONDITIONS AT TIMES. DEFINITIONS FOR THESE STORM LEVELS MAY BE FOUND
AT HTTP://WWW.SWPC.NOAA.GOV/NOAASCALES/. GEOMAGNETIC STORMS USUALLY
LAST 24-48 HOURS, BUT SOME MAY LAST FOR MANY DAYS. GROUND-TO-AIR,
SHIP-TO-SHORE, SHORTWAVE BROADCAST, AND AMATEUR RADIO ARE VULNERABLE
TO DISRUPTION DURING GEOMAGNETIC STORMS. NAVIGATION SYSTEMS LIKE GPS
CAN ALSO BE ADVERSELY AFFECTED. MARINERS SHOULD USE CAUTION WHEN
NAVIGATING DURING THIS TIME PERIOD AND NOT RELY EXCLUSIVELY ON GPS.

This is just the start of a two year cycle that will be spectacular. 

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddha

Wide is the gate and broad is the road

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

Matthew 7:13