Science/Environment

Leonid Meteor Shower 2009 Time | Free Activity!

Leonid Meteor Shower tonight
Welcome to the holiday season during a recession. Millions of consumers rack up credit card debt every year during the holiday season, but this year an unusually high number of Americans already are in debt, but the holiday spirit will no doubt convince them to accumulate even [...]

Meteors! Image from Flickr.

Water on the Moon | Not a Business Opportunity

NASA finds water on the moon
Yes, NASA is reporting today that it has found water on the moon. How did they do that? Well, to put it in layman’s terms (because that is the only language I speak), they sent a rocket with all kinds of sensory instruments hurtling toward [...]

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College Study Attempts to Link Payday Loans and Violence

Remember, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
Have you ever heard that statement before – that “correlation does not imply causation?” What it means is that even if one can identify a correlation (strength and direction of a relationship between two random variables), it does not automatically imply that one causes the [...]

Is this person singing the inner city blues over payday loans? Don't bet that it's that simple. (Photo: flickr.com)

Scientists Believe Superstition’s Bred in the Womb

I Believe They Need to Check Themselves

When you believe in things
That you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain’t the way
- Stevie Wonder, “Superstition”
Psychologists have sought answers for some time as to why people believe in superstitious things and paranormal phenomenon. According to University of Helsinki psychologists Kia Aarnio and Marjaana Lindeman [...]

Superstitious knick knacks clutter your cupboard? Your fingers may be why… so if you know this, you can avoid needing payday loans to fuel such an intuitive compulsion. (Photo: wikipedia.org)

Coconut Crab | Egad!

I’d give payday loans to keep these things away!
Occasionally, if you watch Google Trends, people search for things that are sort of interesting, like zoology – which is a form of knowledge.  (You don’t see it often – most of the time Trends searches are about some less than intelligent [...]

Bring Change 2 Mind | Glenn Close Tackles Mental Illness

Bring Change 2 Mind featured on GMA
Some celebrities, or pseudo-celebrities like Adam Jasinski, choose to use their money for destructive purposes such as drugs and material excess. However, I am encouraged today to see that famous actress Glenn Close is using her extensive wealth for good.
Glenn Close this morning appeared [...]

Glenn Close image from Wikimedia.

People Use Cash Advances as They Brace for Global Warming Bill

New Global Warming Bill
Studies are showing people are increasing cash advances as they wait for new massive global warming bill to go into effect. In the next few weeks, Congress will be reviewing a huge global warming bill.  The bill, named Waxman-Markey, will create a cap-and-trade program that aims to [...]

Consumers budgets are already stretched out. Cash Advances help, but will the upcoming global warming bill make things worse? (Photo: flickr.com)

Light Bulb Ban in EU | U.S., Canada Slow to Keep Up

Europeans stock up on incandescent bulbs
This reminds me of when Americans were stocking up on firearms as the fear of Obama clawed at their hearts. Unfounded or not, when there’s talk that something people need or like is perhaps going to be taken away, people race to the stores and [...]

That's no message in a bottle. There's a light bulb ban on, and that's an enemy of green living. Destroy! (Photo: flickr.com)

Great Pacific Garbage Patch | We Headed For Space Yet?

Will the “Wall-E” future come true?
In the Pixar film “Wall-E,” pollution has run rampant, to the point where the Earth is uninhabitable. Much of this pollution comes straight from the waste inherent in our high-speed consumer culture of convenience. As a result of their sloth, humankind have been forced to [...]

Solar Eclipse July 22, 2009 | Most Viewed Ever?

Open your eyes to the wonder
Have you ever seen a solar eclipse? It’s quite a site that shouldn’t be missed. Some people go to great trouble to view them, to the point of purchasing special lenses or traveling long distances in search of the optimal viewing experience. Thus, fast cash [...]

Follow the path of the solar exclipse

Apollo 11 Moon Landing Hoax is Not Space Age Thinking Pt.II

Apollo 11 Moon Landing Hoax rumors still circulating
Ever since NASA announced that they had lost the back up tapes from the Apollo 11 moon landing, the conspiracy theorists and peanut gallery has been touting their belief that there is an Apollo 11 Moon Landing Hoax – in that NASA filmed [...]

photographic proof NASA faked the moon landing

Apollo Landing Back Up Tapes Lost | NASA Refurbishes Old Tapes

Apollo Moon landing tapes missing – possibly found?

Certainly some among us remember watching the moon landing on July 20th, 1969. It was one of the most watched moments in all of televisions history. Neil Armstrong descended from the Lunar Module and said those famous words, becoming the first [...]

Apollo 11 Moon Landing Salute

Graphene | Flexible Like Plastic, Harder Than Diamond

The future of light, strong and cheap is now
Science frequently works hand-in-hand with industry to find bigger, better, faster ways of improving production processes and making products better. For any country, there’s a certain pride that goes along with making a breakthrough scientific discovery that changes the face of an [...]

Michael Jackson Asexual, Product of Parasites?

Thank parasites for the joy of sex

Wait, wait, wait. This isn’t THAT kind of article. It’s THIS kind of article…
Whether you’re straight, gay, bi or asexual, it’s your own business. No one else’s. And your sexual orientation has absolutely no bearing on whether you can obtain pay day loans for [...]

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop

Unknown Life Form Found in North Carolina Sewer | Run!

In those dark places
There are non-adventurous souls out there who will tell you that there are certain things that we are better off not knowing. What goes into hot dogs? What do your bed sheets look like when you magnify them 1,000 times? What’s all the fuss about the unknown [...]

Picher, Oklahoma | A Toxic Town Shut Down

He was the last man standing
If you’ve ever had to move, you know that it can be very expensive. Boxes, tape, packing material, help moving larger items, moving van rates, gasoline – it all adds up very quickly. Then there’s the deposit or down payment on a new place. You [...]

For the Love of Useless Junk, Adventure

A trash odyssey sorts it out
Are you a pack rat? Do you collect piles and piles of things that have no real purpose, other than to sit in their proper places and be yours? Sometimes people form sentimental attachments to their things that no garage sale can remedy. Once they [...]

Persistence of Memory Says All About Google Searches

You searched for it, you got it
Sometimes, I wonder why people Google certain things. Often the top search terms that appear on Google Trends are related to breaking political, economic or entertainment news. But sometimes, the results are simply surreal. Like parts of this article.
Yes, I’ll admit that I’m not [...]

Amazing 16-Year-Old Finds Bernoulli Numbers Relationship

The universal language
Mathematics holds a vital place in a wide variety of fields, including the sciences and finance. Number calculations have proved the viability of countless scientific phenomenon. Money lenders generally need statistical data to evaluate a consumer’s financial situation before granting them a loan (although installment loans are easier [...]

Phobaeticus Chani and Other New Species On Parade

If it crawls, make it feel welcome
The discovery of a new species is cause for excitement, for the longer we live on Earth, the more we discover how little we know. Like consumers in need of a pay day, discovering new species is like a windfall of payday advances, an [...]