mirrors and moonbeams

Is anyone interested in a road trip to Arizona for some moonshine? No, not that kind of moonshine. I’m talking about moonlight reflected off a five-story mirror array in the desert near Tuscon. A Tucson-based inventor and businessman Richard Chapin and his wife Monica are behind the giant device, which gathers up and focuses the [...]

For all the birthdays out there….

This is for Deb, Chris and Ben… Enjoy! (for some reason the linky doesn’t seem to work, so here’s the address just in case: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OrLSbDbEJno)

tomorrow: Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day

I just read the most awesome thing over at the Geekdad blog: tomorrow is Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day! Of course it totally should have been on my birthday, but I’m willing to share it with Deb. ;) Expect to see me walking in crazy moon clothes around shouting, “You’re not thinking four-dimensionally!” [...]

our own government admits that Iran isn’t developing nuclear weapons

This just in from some crazy left-wing blogger making up stories: In a stunning reversal of Bush administration conventional wisdom, a new assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies concludes Iran shelved it’s nuclear weapons program over four years ago. “We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program,” reads a [...]

Fever can unlock autism’s grip

Looks like there’s been some progress in figuring out how to reverse the effects of autism, at least temporarily. According to a recent study, some children have shown improvement while they have a fever over 100 degrees: More than 80 percent of those with fever showed some improvements in behavior during it and 30 percent [...]