So, John McCain has chosed Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 election. Let’s break this down. First, this is a fairly transparent attempt to woo staunch Hillary supporters who just really, really want to vote for a female candidate. I’ve got to think this is a pretty small faction. So, to gain [...]
Seems like they’re finding all kinds of “lost” things in the rainforest these days. Think the ancient Amazon was untouched by human hands? Wrong. Turns out sections of the forest were downright urban. Scientists at the University of Florida have discovered a large network of towns that once supported upwards of 50,000 people in an area [...]
Oh, to be a Mythbuster. Their apparently unlimited budget allows them to do, well, pretty much anything they want. Like build a giant, 1100-barrell paintball gun with one mile of high-pressure tubing. And then paint the Mona Lisa. Instantly. I think they were trying to explain something about the difference between single- and multi-core computing. But [...]
This entry is crossposted with BlogTO. Waiting for Godot is the theatrical equivalent of a mine field. Full of starving grizzly bears. Surrounded by a shark-infested moat. On fire. It is a play where nothing actually happens. Two guys show up and wait for another guy to arrive. But behind this facade of inactivity lies [...]
So my “real” job is making some fairly unreasonable demands on my time today, so I will be blogger non grata for today. Rest assured, I’ll be back to my bloggish ways tomorrow. In the meantime, if you stumble across a story you absolutely, positively think should be on Nunc, send it along. I will [...]
New research has revealed something surprising: 13 out of 15 great ancient civilizations- from the Greeks to the Israelites – constructed their cities and empires on top of active tectonic plates. This put them at greater risk of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and other forms of geological unpleasantness. Nobody is really sure why ancient people were [...]
Not a lot of bloggers keep tabs on exciting new developments in bovine world. Thank goodness for me. I don’t do this because it’s glamourous. I do it because, goddamn it, someone has to. Two big cow-related stories today. First, new research out of Germany indicates that grazing animals such as cows or deer align [...]