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CDC: Prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse!

We all know it’s coming.  We’ve been saying so for years.  But the inescapable Zombie Apocalypse is closer than we might think.

Until now we’ve only had speculation and “what-if” scenarios.  Never a peep from any government.  Government scientists sit there, playing in their labs with the deadliest of viruses.  Mutating them to the point [...]

Handheld Doctors

The presence of doctors in the post-TNG Star Trek universe has always confused me.  I mean when all you need to do is scan a patient with a small handheld device and get an instant diagnosis, what’s the point of doctors?  When a 1980′s cell phone sized apparatus and a sophisticated computer program running on [...]

Thank you internet…You’re my only hope

China is doing some things very right.  I wish we had respect for science in the USA like this.

http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/17/eight-out-of-chinas-top-nine-government-officials-are-scientists

 

The government fined Q-RAY and is now paying that money to people who got fooled.  Somehow they are still selling the product with a few marketing changes.

http://www.walletpop.com/2011/05/09/q-ray-bracelet-buyers-mailed-refund-checks/#

 

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Purdue’s Rube Goldberg Is ‘Nerd Approved’!

Well, shame on me.  I probably should have heard about this website called ‘Nerd Approved’ before today.  I’m almost too embarrassed to blog about it because there is some seriously nerd-tastic, yet very cool things there to explore inside Sean Fallon’s blog. I blame Rebecca, she’s supposed to be helping me keep up on ‘what’s cool and fun’ in cyberspace. (Just [...]

Weekly Geekery #2

Space Shuttle Discovery…  Wake…. Up!

Space Shuttle Discovery got a wake-up call on its last day before returning to Earth.  And it went a little something like this:

Wake-up calls have been a tradition in manned spaceflights since the Gemini 6A mission of 1965.  All kinds of music has been played for the astronauts’ [...]