Category Archives for Science
Nature vs. nurture: Identical Twins Raised Apart
Here are some pretty incredible stories that I found in my clinical psychiatry book: 1) Jim L. and Jim S. were first reunited at age 39. They were genetically identical twins, reared apart since infancy by different adoptive families in … Continue reading
Total Lunar Eclipse
I’ll be heading home early from studying to snap a few pictures of tonight’s total lunar eclipse. I guess it will be the last one seen in North America until December 2010. Unfortunately, I forgot my tripod at home so … Continue reading
Project Implicit
It is well known that people don’t always ‘speak their minds’, and it is suspected that people don’t always ‘know their minds’. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious … Continue reading
How Proteus Saved Lives in World War II
I’m currently studying for an upcoming microbiology exam on bacteriology and wanted to quick comment on something that one of the doctors told us. During World War II, Nazis were very fearful of typhus (the epidemic from caused by Rickettsia … Continue reading
Parallel universes?
According to a team of Oxford scientists (I’m sorry that I don’t have their original publication), the parallel universe theory “helps explain mysteries of quantum mechanics that have baffled scientists for decades.” In particular, “the Oxford team, led by Dr … Continue reading
Photon Propulsion Breakthrough
Bae’s Photonic Laser Thruster (PLT) demonstration produced a photon thrust of 35 uN, which is sufficient for several space missions currently envisioned, and is scalable to achieve much greater photon thrust for future space missions. Applications for PLT include: highly … Continue reading
Should Google Go Nuclear?
Google Tech Talks November 9, 2006 ABSTRACT This is not your father’s fusion reactor! Forget everything you know about conventional … all » thinking on nuclear fusion: high-temperature plasmas, steam turbines, neutron radiation and even nuclear waste are a thing … Continue reading
Interstellar Ark
“There are three strategies to travel 10.5 light-years from Earth to Epsilon Eridani and bring humanity into a new stellar system : 1) Wait for future discovery of Star Trek physics and go there almost instantaneously, 2) Build a relativistic … Continue reading
An Additional Climate Theory?
Some scientists now say that cosmic rays are linked to global warming. Maybe human action isn’t the only (or even major) contributor to global warming… Researchers studying global warming have often been confounded by the differences between observed increases in … Continue reading
Good News for Scott Adams
So I guess that Scott Adams was suffering from a condition called Spasmodic Dysphonia (Wikipedia ref.) (For the medically-oriented among you, check out this eMedicine article.) This is an incredible story! As regular readers of my blog know, I lost … Continue reading