Did you feel the effects this morning of the solar storm that shook our magnetic fields "like a snow globe"?
After hurtling through space for a day and a half, a massive cloud of charged particles is due to arrive early Thursday and could disrupt utility grids, airline flights, satellite networks and GPS services, especially in northern areas. But the same blast could also paint colorful auroras farther from the poles than normal.
Carbon Motors of Connersville isn't going to get that $310 million federal loan deal to employ 1,500 people to manufacture "the first purpose-built police car." This is the song and dance from the Department of Energy's rejection statement.
A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don't have a good enough sense of humor to tell.
And we live in a Lake Wobegon of the mind, where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."
Sleeping eight hours straight through may be abnormal:
In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a seminal paper, drawn from 16 years of research, revealing a wealth of historical evidence that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks.
If the bible your profession goes by is "silly" and "worrying and dangerous," how valuable is the service you provide?
Millions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said on Thursday.
I also saw this on my vacation, a short Journal Gazette editorial and accompanying map explaining how "the reality of climate change" (an increase of two-thirds of a degree) affects us locally:
It means it’s not as cold in northeast Indiana as it used to be.
It also means that less hardy plants and trees are now more likely to survive further north.
I know Indiana politicians are always looking for ways to prove that we're not a backward state. But do we have to prove we're with it by trying to create green energy nightmares every bit as foolish as Solyndra?
If you liked alcohol-free beer, you'll just love this:
A British drug manufacturer is hoping for a big score from consumers and a green light from the FDA for its medical marijuana mouth spray in 2013.
I thought conservatives were the wingnuts and it's the liberals who are supposed to be the moonbats:
A day after Newt Gingrich vowed to build a base on the moon by the end of his second term in office, Rick Santorum suggested that such a promise was merely pandering to Florida voters.
The Doomsday Clock keepers have moved the time ahead a minute to five minutes before midnight, the first time the clock has been reset since 2007:
