Science
Tuesday Science News – Mt Dew, sharks, CO2, transexual fish, freaky monkeys, and zombie bees
PepsiCo was recently sued by a man claiming that there was a mouse in a can of his Mountain Dew. Pepsi’s defense was that there is no way a mouse […]
Faith healing and children
There are quite a few states that currently have varying levels of religious exemptions to child welfare laws, including my current home state of Idaho. In these states if you’re […]
Tuesday Science – My weekend at Ocean Shores, WA
Since the news has been slow over the holidays and I was out of town for four days I’m going to skip the normal news this week and focus on […]
Vaccine exemptions and herd immunity
There was a good piece a while ago on some of the legal issues around mandating vaccines for school children on Science Based Medicine. Basically it lays out that for […]
Tuesday Science News – Space tourism, elephant population, a very old galaxy, and more!
Zero2Infinity is a new “space tourism” company that’s taking an interesting and more environmentally friendly approach to getting people high above the earth: balloons! People generally consider space to start […]
The Solstice Rose
In May I shared the story of my mom’s December rose bud. Well, it’s back again this year: The bud first appeared around the first week of December and this […]
Tuesday Science – Dietary choices of octopus
In a recent paper in the journal Marine Biology, “Prey selection in Octopus rubescens: possible roles of energy budgeting and prey nutritional composition“, Kirt L. Onthank and David L. Cowles […]
Lighthouses > Churches: Pakistan, Catholics, Homeopathy, and Fox Buesiness
**It’s time for this week’s edition of Wesley’s Lighthouses > Churches (read as either Lighthouses are greater than Churches or Lighthouses, redirect output into churches, i.e. shine a bright light […]
Tuesday Science News – teen birth rates, sick seals, SpaceX, walking fish, and ostrich erections
Teen birth rates in the US have it a record low! In 2010 a mere 34.3 births were reported for every 1000 girls age 15 – 19. Even more amazing […]