Archive for the ‘Sci/Tech’ Category

My iPhone Weather App Needs More Icons

The weather app on my iPhone needs a few more icons that mean rain, I think. -JRV’12  
August 27th, 2011 | Sci/Tech | Read More

You Maniacs! You’ve Made Everything Self-Aware!

Wired magazine’s science weblog reported last year on a surprising discovery: rhesus macaques are just as vain as we are. Apparently, they recognize their own reflections in a mirror, and this proves that these animals have the same capacity for self-awareness as humans, chimpanzees, dolphins,...
March 6th, 2011 | Sci/Tech | Read More

New Year’s Breakthrough: Times Square Travel?

Editor’s Note: Because of time travel and stuff, this article will be posted on January 1st, 2011, but attempt to travel back to December 31st, 2010. Whether or not it will succeed depends on how drunk the reader still is from the night before. This New Year’s Eve, physicists will attempt...
January 1st, 2011 | Sci/Tech | Read More

In Stunning Reversal, IAU Rules That Pluto is in Fact the Only Planet

Prague, Czech Republic – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, amending their 2006 definition, voted Tuesday to again redefine “planet,” now making Pluto the only planet in the solar system, just four years after it was banished in favor of an 8-planet system. Following the controversial...
October 17th, 2010 | Sci/Tech | Read More

Scientists Isolate Antipope; Mysteries of Pope Asymmetry Remain

The Large Popeon Collider (LPC) may soon find evidence of a "God particle" that could explain the pope-antipope asymmetry. CERN, FRANCE – An international team of researchers today announced the first-ever isolation of a sample of antipope, a rare substance predicted by current Pope Theory. ...
February 5th, 2010 | Sci/Tech | Read More

Designing the New Apple Tablet Computer

CONFIDENTIAL EMAIL EXCHANGE.  DO NOT RELEASE. —————————————————————- From: Jonathan Ives, Chief Designer <ives@apple.com> To: Steve Jobs, CEO <jobs@apple.com> Dear...
January 27th, 2010 | Sci/Tech | Read More

IPCC Climate Scientist: “This world shall burn!”

GENEVA – “Blindly you have ignored the signs; recklessly did you disregard our warnings.  Now this world shall burn!” said Dr. Daniel Bernstein at the IPCC’s press conference in Geneva.  Bernstein, a scientist who has devoted much of his career to raising awareness of humans’...
December 5th, 2009 | Sci/Tech | Read More

Study Shows Drinking Improves Foreign Language Skills; Test Takers Accused of “Doping”

A recent groundbreaking study by Tiger Magazine’s psychological research team shows that there is a significant link between alcohol consumption and foreign language speaking ability. The study showed that as Blood Alcohol Content increases, there is almost a four hundred percent improvement in...
October 25th, 2009 | Sci/Tech | Read More

The Answer

Human civilization is on the brink of collapse. Consider the innumerable problems of the modern world: War. Famine. Poverty. The continued popularity of the Black Eyed Peas. All of these problems have a single, elegant solution. That solution is the mass cloning and release of saber-toothed tigers. Some...
October 5th, 2009 | Sci/Tech | Read More

Profiles of Strong Women in Science: Susan C. Frericks

When Susan C. Frericks began her career in genomics ten years ago, no one took her seriously.  ”It seemed that no matter how hard I worked or what I discovered, I was never taken seriously because of my gender,” explained Frericks. When she discovered novel oncogenetic phenotypes in some...
September 18th, 2008 | Sci/Tech | Read More