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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
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There was a little trouble down in the lab again this week. Loyal readers may recall that Copernicus, my faithful Doberman guard dog, got into some recombinant DNA samples last month and ended up growing a pair of reindeer antlers. I think they look adorable, but he seems a little self-conscious. So I was distilling some retroviral plasmids when I heard a remarkably loud explosion.
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
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It’s no exaggeration to say that the iPod is the single most successful gadget of the last decade. It’s just cool – dispassionately, objectively, empirically cool. No two ways around it – in both function and form, the iPod has proved revolutionary. In fact, a lot of people don’t know this, but Nostradamus predicted the arrival of the iPod in his little-known 1556 manifesto Prophecies Gadgetirium:
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Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
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So I was up on the Observation Deck the other night, charting some debris clusters near the Cygnus Loop, when my telescope lens exploded with light. "Supernova!" I thought, and reached for my notepad. I've had a little side hobby for years now of scouting spiral galaxy cores for NASA. Nice people, but surprisingly amateurish when it comes to charting interstellar clouds.
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