Archive for the ‘Sci/Tech’ Category

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

Solar System Downsizing Prompts Plutonium’s Removal from Periodic Table

Plutonium responds In response to last month’s announcement by the International Astronomical Union that Pluto was no longer a planet, IUPAC, the international group of chemists with a name too long to bother writing, has announced that plutonium will be removed from the periodic table. “Any...