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Everything You Need To Know About St. Patrick

If you're a student of culture, a number of things have likely piqued your curiosity; like why so many modern people get drunk about ancient religous stuff.

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Santa Claus Physics (In Rhyming Verse)

Sometimes people think that, because I write this column for peanuts, I am somehow also available for free science consulting services.

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What "The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra" Can Teach You About Science On Halloween

It's not often you can boil down complicated abstract ideas of science or culture into simple concepts everyone can understand.  Gems like "for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction" don't come along every day.   But every time someone asks me what science is  …

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Please Help Scientists By Participating In National Orgasm Day

I'm taking a moment away from crafting "Journey To The Center Of The Uterus", my opus on reproduction and culture, to discuss something of equal import - namely, orgasms.

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Important Weekend Science: The Bar Pick-Up

Scientists like order and structure and methodology. Repeatability is even better, though that often requires additional grant funding. It's no different when it comes to weekends, bars and picking up science groupies.

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Indiana Cash And The Supermodel Of Doom

I am, I confess, among the most boring men in my family. In a family lineage that includes war heroes, riverboat gamblers, inventors, crusaders and even a guy named King Arthur, I instead write science humor on the interwebs. Not much to brag about.

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Falsification - And Other Reasons Girls Kick Your Butt At Chess

There is a good reason most Americans stink at chess - our unfailing optimism.

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The Large Hadron Collider - Prepare To Bow Before Your New Strangelet Overlords

In case you've been canoodling with your own supermodel and not reading this blog, you may not know that the Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is due to go online.(1) Or is it? No one can really be certain.

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Jebediah Cash Takes On Big Whale Oil

I was puttering around the attic of the Cashominium, trying to sort through some old boxes, and I came across something you all might find interesting. Before any of this makes sense, I need to give you a little family background.

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Scientist angers Mother Nature

Sure, I have done a lot of unnatural things in my time but I always thought it would be, you know, dismissed as good-natured boys-being-boys type stuff. Turns out I was wrong. Mother Nature doesn't like unnatural stuff and she was just picking her spot.

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The reason we should fund space exploration: Alien Babes

When President George Bush announced in 2004 that he wanted to reinvigorate space exploration, he presented a number of arguments for increasing funding but they were all rather tepid. Space exploration technology, for example, led to CAT scans and MRIs.

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The Science Of A Bionic Woman Part II

We spent Part I discussing Bionic Women on TV and speculating as to why they spent $55 Million on Jaime Sommers in the show but couldn't fix actress Michelle Ryan's chin.

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CFL Bulbs: Save The Planet, Make Your Cat Crazy

I'm usually a pretty patient guy about marketing. Unlike some, I am not educated by it and, unlike others, I don't look down on it.

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The Science of a Bionic Woman ( sort of )

We all know that if there's one thing certain to happen to professional tennis players who get hurt in skydiving accidents, it's that a clandestine para-military organization will swoop in and replace the now defective natural parts with über-awesome cybernetic ones.

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Top 10 Reasons Relationships With Robots Will Be Better For Men

I saw a few articles discussing an upcoming convergence between robot and human culture based on research by Netherlands student David Levy, who completed his PhD on the subject of human-robot relationships. Using the Artificial Intelligence ( A.I.

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The Conservative Case For Al Gore Winning The Nobel Peace Prize

Al Gore is in the running to get a Nobel Peace prize and, I have to say, it's not a bad idea.

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Extreme Transsexuals In The Bug World

Who knew that the sex lives of African bat bugs could be so interesting? Males with female genitalia, female bugs with 'paragenitals' on their abdomens that guide the males to the right spot by basically impaling them if they mess up, males trying to impregnate males.

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Vinemeet West: How I Became The Sexiest Man On Newsvine

"You're the most sexiest man on Newsvine," Kymlee said. Well, I was a little embarrassed by that. Granted, that's all a matter of personal taste but there was some pretty stiff competition. "I'm not even the sexiest man in this room," I said sheepishly.

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Science Converges On The Perfect Woman

"It's hard finding the perfect woman," my friend Jack said to me. "What do you mean?" I asked. "Do you want to borrow my copy of Poison Ivy: The New Seduction?"

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My Dirty Secret - I Am A Six Fiend

I have always loved numbers. My whole life I have manipulated them, caressed them, cared for them. My friends, I am a six fiend.

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The Assault On Coffee Part I

There's a war that's brewing and you may not be aware of it. It's right under our noses but it has been kept out of the mainstream media due to a growing web of deniers and obfuscaters who regard misinformation and doubt as allies.

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The Unusual Case Of The Man With The Green Blood

A new novel about Sherlock Holmes or, my favorite, The Saint? No, this really happened in an operating room in St Paul's Hospital, British Columbia. Dr. Alana Flexman, Dr. Stephan Schwarz and Dr. Giuseppe Del Vicario wrote the case report.

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Science on Demand: Your Newsvine Emission Index

We measure everything these days; calories, pollution, bad words on TV, how many vagina-related articles I can post in one week, etc. One really popular thing to measure are emissions.

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The Science of Relationships II: Keeping Magic Alive

People are not always sure there is a science to relatonships until I spend a minute explaining it to them. Everything in the universe is about inductance.

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8 Strategies To Get Paid On Newsvine

Almost everyone has a reason to contribute actively to a social news site.

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