Category Archives: Nuances
Want to lose weight? Just activate your ‘brown fat’
First off let me say that when I first heard that people had ‘brown fat’ my thoughts went straight to ‘dark meat.’ You know, like on a chicken. As in,
“Gimme another hank o’ that brown meat, Maw.”
“You wont the shoulder or the rump?”
"Naw! Gimme th’ armpit!"
But beyond the humor factor, it turns out that brown [...]
Also posted in Life, Ruminations Tagged Alabama, body, brown fat, burn calories, cold, exercise, Exposure, freezing, frigid, lose weight, popular mechanics, south, survival, survive, the future of fat, white fat, workout 1 Comment
Demon Core
Ever heard of the “Demon Core?” Causality + criticality = DOOM!
The year: 1946. The subject: plutonium core. The occurence: Scientist fat-fingered a screwdriver and died 9 days later from radiation poisoning after the plutonium core went critical and fired a blast of neutron radiation.
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Global Warming Activists Villainized [Again]
Okay, I said I’d give it a while to sink in before I made my judgement known about the video I posted. Well, I’ve thought about it, and now I have to say that, in spite of their attempts to make me not care about carbon emissions, I still do, and their argument still it does [...]
Also posted in Environment & Nature, Life Tagged africa, climate change, global warming, industrialization, pollution, rural 2 Comments
When We Finally Fight A Galactic War, This is the Flag We’ll Be Fighting Under
The Flag of Earth symbolizes the Earth (the center blue disk), the Sun (the yellow disk on the left), and the Moon (the white disk on the right). The Earth and its most important celestial neighbors – the Sun and Moon – are overlaid on a backdrop of the darkness of space.
The Flag of Earth [...]
Also posted in Research Material Tagged Earth, empire, flag, galactic, galaxy, milky way, moon, solar system, sun, universe 5 Comments
Locally Grown Food
This was cross-posted from my [Re]Evolver blog.
The folks over at Eating Alabama are wrapping up their year-long experiment in which they eat only food harvested in their home state of Alabama. Evidently, such a thing is possible, and makes a lot of sense from a sustainability perspective. If more people ate only local food, it [...]
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Have you ever seen the Milky Way?
Photo from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day website. Click for full size.
I have seen it, yes, but I wasn’t looking for it, so the moment doesn’t really stand out for me. I can remember nights when I was at sea (aboard the USS America) when the moon was so bright you could barely look [...]
Also posted in Environment & Nature Tagged galaxy, how do I see, how to see the milky way, milky way, spectacle 2 Comments
Earth and Moon as seen from Mars
NASA pic culled from Brent_Zupp:
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Best Superhero Accoutrement
Batman’s utility belt, Quasar’s quantum bands…there are tons of superheroes (and villains) out there who’ve accessorized to better enable them to perform their duties. Reed Richards has made a living out of building gadgets and machinery for his team and for the world at large. He designed unstable molecules so he and the rest of [...]
Also posted in Entertainment Tagged accessories, accessorize, armor, book, Books, claws, comic, hammer, Iron Man, marvel, Mjolnir, snict, Thor, wolverine 4 Comments
Neil Nielson Patrick Harris Hayden
I just realized I’ve been confusing Neil Patrick Harris and Patrick Nielsen Hayden. I hate when that happens, but I think I’ve got it worked out now.
Continue.
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Also posted in Life, Ruminations 3 Comments
Vernal Equinox and a Full Moon
Photo by sea turtle
Yesterday was the first day of spring, also known as the vernal equinox, and the Sun was at a point on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator and ecliptic intersect. Traditionally, it’s the only day you can balance an egg on its point. It’s historically been a day for collecting eggs, eggs being a [...]
Light Years Away
Yes, I am prone to ruminate about the future for some reason. But it’s not always in the line of doomsday odds and possibilities, sometimes it’s about simple things, like light. I think about light a lot. We need light; even people who sleep all day and wish they were vampires will have a few lights on during their awake [...]
Also posted in Ruminations Tagged beamwidth, bioengineering, green power, illumination, lantern, light, spotlight, tech, technology, whale oil Leave a comment
Organic molecules found on alien world for the first time
Organic molecules – in the form of methane – have been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The giant planet lies too close to its parent star for the methane to signal life, but the detection offers hope that astronomers will one day be able to analyse the atmospheres [...]
Renaming the Sun, Moon, and Earth
I would like to propose to petition the IAU to officially name our Sun, our Moon and our Earth (Note that I didn’t say change the name or rename, because they have never been named). But what would be the best names for them? What would you call our Earth, a planet more blue and [...]
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Cockney Slang