http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out An unabashed nerd's guide to science, technology and cyberculture. If you you use an RSS reader, here is the feed for Geeking Out: XML. en-us ryeguy123@yahoo.com 2009-07-13T21:20:00-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 An unabashed nerd's guide to science, technology and cyberculture. If you you use an RSS reader, here is the feed for Geeking Out: XML. Recently Bob Steinburg’s been trying to challenge physical reality with his missives against efforts to curb Anthropogenic Climate change. His most recent column makes some very bizarre, unsupportable claims about Global Warming and the Waxman-Markey Climate bill currently working its... http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/07/13/steinburgs_factuallychallenged.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Recently Bob Steinburg’s been trying to challenge physical reality with his missives against efforts to curb Anthropogenic Climate change. His most recent column makes some very bizarre, unsupportable claims about Global Warming and the Waxman-Markey Climate bill currently working its... 13815603@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-07-13T21:20:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/07/06/understanding_the_animal_side.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Grrrrr! Credit: Brian Scott Colin Powell’s appearance on State of the Union last weekend has stirred up many healthy debates on Iraq, Obama’s presidency, and Sotomayor, but I found his thoughts on American families most interesting, especially the following:... 13709403@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-07-06T20:30:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/06/23/fun_with_tick_clockwork.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Dermacentor variabilis, female Credit: National Tick Collection Vicky and I went for a short hike in Chesapeake’s Northwest River Park last weekend, a lovely site filled with marshland and waterways for canoeing, camping, … and ticks. Hot summer days... 13521503@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-06-23T19:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/06/12/port_discovers_a_bargain_for_e.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Beautiful Science Credit: Bonnie*B I am thrilled by City Council’s decision to fund the expansion of the Port Discover Science Center over the next five years. This is a wise and prescient use of public funds that will benefit... 13360303@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-06-12T22:27:29-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/06/01/luminaries_for_scientists_at_t.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Vicky introduced me to the Relay for Life this year, an all-night fundraising event where teams raise money for the American Cancer Society. We brought some of the neighborhood kids to the event, and much fun was had by one... 13140603@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-06-01T22:30:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/05/26/dont_tax_plastic_bags_tax_the.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Credit: Green England On June 1, 2008, China joined countries like Bangladesh, Ireland, and Rwanda, and the city of San Francisco in instituting a ban on plastic bags. As a result, China saved 1.6 million tons of oil in... 13021903@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-05-26T22:45:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/05/18/benjamin_franklins_electrical.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out The 1700s were a century of phenomenal progress in the subject of electricity. Luigi Galvani discovered that electricity made dead muscles twitch, inspiring Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. Alessandro Volta discovered that electricity was dynamic, flowing through conductive materials like water in... 12875403@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-05-18T20:30:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/05/10/port_discover_science_center_n.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Nobody flunks a science museum. - Frank Oppenheimer, founder of Exploratorium Center Director Jenny Eaton at the Port Discover Booth for Knobbs Creek Recreation Center’s Safety Day There’s a feeling I get when I find a picture of a living... 12716103@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-05-10T22:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/05/03/42_more_years_of_star_trek.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before.” - Introduction to... 12564903@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-05-03T09:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/04/26/the_digital_naturalist.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out “Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.” - Chief Seattle This quote from Chief Seattle, leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes, is paraphrased by modern naturalists as, “Take only photographs, leave only footprints” (and sometimes adding, “Kill... 12419003@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-04-26T21:22:38-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/04/17/post_this_cheat_sheet_in_your.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out This Time Traveler’s Cheat Sheet is awesome!!! Go back in time! Take credit for major discoveries! Time Traveler’s Cheat Sheet... 12165803@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-04-17T12:00:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/04/13/can_the_world_live_at_350_ppm.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out 350.org wants to see if we can get the world to live at 350ppm CO2. This site groks with me because it sets an achievable, concrete goal. 350.org... 12165603@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-04-13T22:13:06-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/04/06/how_the_brain_grows_into_the_b.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Baby and Godmother Credit: kton25 Harvard Psychologist Stephen M. Kosslyn presents a fascinating conundrum concerning the development of a human embryo: In order for the brain to process the two images our eyes transmit to it in 3-D stereovision,... 12041303@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-04-06T22:30:00-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/03/31/fossils_of_the_technium_in_the.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself. - Edward O. Wilson In David Brin’s The Postman, greatest post-apocalyptic book ever, the protagonist finds shelter in an old mail truck and keeps warm by making a blanket... 11927103@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-03-31T22:09:55-05:00 http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/entries/2009/03/28/computergrown_snowfakes.html?cxntfid=blogs_geeking_out Awesome slideshow of computer-grown “snowfakes.” (Via EurekAlert!) “Snowfakes” Credit:UW-Madison... 11606503@http://www.dailyadvance.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/communities/geek/ 2009-03-28T01:00:00-05:00