m31andy: (New Scientist)
2010-08-12 03:31 pm

The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything

Isn't 42 after all. It's brain bleach. Let me explain...

Via [livejournal.com profile] newscientist according to Conservapedia, E no longer equals MC squared

Read the whole thing - it's boggling. But if you can't/don't want to, here's my brief analysis/piss-take...

under a cut, because I'm verbose )
m31andy: (Precipitate)
2009-07-01 12:52 pm
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That is sure one hot subunit...

Ahahah!

And seconds after posting up my last entry, about science reporting, [livejournal.com profile] new_scientist's headline today is the shocking news that
The behaviour of proteins that are popular with researchers is more likely to be reported inaccurately than that of their less fashionable counterparts.


Even proteins are not exempt from celebrity status, obviously!!!
m31andy: (Andy)
2009-02-10 03:59 pm

The Virtual World, virtually.

Work is horrendous - I want a new life.

Have just been freaked out by Scott Adams - he's blogging about the virtual universe again here. What he suggests is not new (Thirteenth Floor anyone???) But it's freaky because of the punchline. I was justifying literal creationism just the other day, using *exactly* the same argument. I was even thinking about re-writing the beginning of Genesis as if God was actually a caffeine-addicted computer programmer. Looks like I don't need to bother!