Science Fact: Frankenburger — that’s meat grown in a test tube — has given late night comedians lots of joke material. And Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has bankrolled research by scientist Mark Post at Maastricht University in the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2013
The newly remodeled artchester.net website is officially open to welcome you. Many thanks to Mike Bell for a great design concept & to all my friends for your Likes and +1s and Follows! [Note: I’m a novice at WordPress, so … Continue reading
Science Fact: Go on a raisin diet and lose weight? Prevent diabetes? Wait a minute, didn’t we already have the grapefruit diet, the avocado diet, etc? And who could forget the Atkins Diet with its rashers of bacon? Does everything qualify … Continue reading
Investment Speculation? What does a physicist have to say about that? When the pros get in over their head, why should you listen to an amateur at all? Never fear, when it comes to what to do, I will point … Continue reading
Science Fact: Sanjay Gupta and marijuana? The good Doctor associating with potheads? That’s habitual marijuana smokers, in case you’ve spent the last fifty years on the moon. Often news anchors try to avoid making news, but in the case of … Continue reading
Sometimes you need to give a great talk, a presentation that’s really important to you. This may happen to you rarely or all the time. And it may be easy or excruciatingly difficult. Checklist to Give a Great Talk I … Continue reading
Science Fact: A news item about nanoscale “cantilevers” may hold the answer to a serious problem facing hospitals. If you arrive at a hospital with a serious bacterial infection, you may have only a few hours to live unless the … Continue reading
We all want more airplane space. Wouldn’t it be great to have a portable space-time wormhole? You could stuff all your travel baggage into it, tuck it in your pocket, and when you arrived at your hotel room, voila! … Continue reading
Science Fact: Psi, the 23rd (penultimate) letter of the Greek alphabet, has many meanings. When you’re using math to describe research results or propose physical mechanisms, you use symbols as shorthand for things so that you can manipulate the equations. In … Continue reading
Science Speculation: The Mai Tai is a brilliant invention. Whoever invented it wanted the drink to be exciting at the first sip, tasty throughout the drink, and still good-tasting near the end of the drink when the ice had begun … Continue reading
Science Fact: This post deals with physics and Psi — in this case, “Psi” is being used as an umbrella term covering ESP and PK, as explained below. ESP, extrasensory perception, is a term adopted by Duke University psychologist J. … Continue reading
Science Fact: The science reports I read have been recently full of breathless reports from astronomers diligently discovering exoplanets, that is, extrasolar planets. Those are planets outside our Solar System that might be like Earth, or at least similar enough … Continue reading