Um, what other people?
"Well, the next person might want it on."
And, of course, turning a television on and off is an electrician's job. TV-B-Gone seems a lot simpler.
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The guy who invented TV-B-Gone ought to get a Nobel Prize. I don't mind being at bars or places where people are actually watching TV, but I resent being the only person in a waiting room with the TV blaring inanities. And when you ask the receptionist to turn it off, you get answers like "Other people like it."
Huckleberry decides to add exercise to his regimen. He's already on the Atkins diet.
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Bagheera demonstrates how to supercharge the obliques. That girl is flexible!
Welcome to visitors from The Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats.
I've seen lots of links to the article on LiveScience about ants counting their steps in navigating the shortest route between two points. Ho hum, I thought, I had a cow-orker who did the same thing when deciding which route to take to the bathroom at work—and he was way dumber than an ant.
My question is why aren't more people excited over the fact that scientists were gluing stilts onto ants? Now that's weird.
Well, I would—if Hollywood could get it as right as these amateurs. But then, Amateur means doing it out of love and that's where Hollywood falls down when it makes movies out of comic books, um, I mean graphic novels.
My buddy John Atkinson likes to say that what makes science work is not simply the measurement of observed phenomena, but the scientist's refusal to believe those measurements. I once asked him if he'd teach me to do audio measurements and he said no, "because you'd believe the measurements—a good scientist knows the measurements are trying to lie to him."
Michael Shermer discusses this with a twist in Scientific American, where he says a recent brain study suggests that we might need to apply more skepticism and peer review in every walk of life.
While we're thinking about thinking, think about this: Recent research confirms that animals have language, experience complex emotions, and can apply abstract reasoning—including the assimilation of previously acquired information—to problem solving. So why do we think we're so special?
So that's why my apartment is always a mess when I get home!
Via Jeff Wong.
I grew up in Charlottesville, VA, in the shadow of Monticello and a few blocks from UVA, Mr.Jefferson's university, so I always felt a tad proprietary about the Fourth of July. Schoolchildren in Charlottesville were pretty much taught that the Revolution was Thomas Jefferson and some other guys against King George.
The thing is, every time I read the Declaration of Independence, I still marvel at Jefferson's command of rhetoric.
Read the Declaration and all about it at USHistory.org's DOI page.