Maybe the giant ramp up in women winning this year's Nobel Prize selections is a fluke, but I sure hope not. Of the 13 winners this year, 5 are women. Last year? There was 1. I went crawling through Wikipedia and found that in the past, there are only 3 other years EVER in which more than one woman received a Nobel Prize of any kind ( Read more... )

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They found Annie Le's body. I'm still kind of in shock. I didn't know her - but I very easily could have. She was in Yale BBS and pretty close to my year. All three of my roommates work in labs down at the med school. It could have been any of them. Hell, it could have been me. Very freaked out right now, and very glad I'm now living 3000 ( Read more... )

Dude: busted. ON TAPEAn Orange County lawmaker who inadvertently broadcast explicit remarks about his sexual conquests over an open microphone during a lull in a Sacramento hearing abruptly resigned from office this afternoon. Legislative leaders had earlier expressed disgust at the comments of Assemblyman Mike Duvall (R-Yorba Linda), who was ( Read more... )

I love my iPhone. I HATE iPhone updates. This is the second time one has managed to brick my phone and forced me to spend half a day fixing it. This particular update decided to bugger off half way through, thoroughly hosing my phone. It also decided to uninstall Apple's USB Mobile Device drivers from my PC while it was at it so it wouldn't ( Read more... )

Henry Louis Gates' arrest for being an uppity black man has reminded me just how subtle and obnoxious institutionalized racism really is. There's two commercials that bother me every time I see them on TV, and I was wondering if anyone else had noticed them ( Read more... )

Finally, something I could submit to FailBlog. What's wrong with this Weather.com graphic?

http://cheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=4584813

Huh, I'm not crazy. I've been checking the weather on my iPhone for both New Haven and Tuscaloosa, and been weirded out by the consistent 95+ in AL and 60-70 and rainy here ( Read more... )

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Apparently, until only last month, beers over 6% alcohol by volume or in containers larger than 16 oz. couldn't be sold in Alabama. No wonder I was so amazed by the beers available on tap and in the grocery store in Connecticut!

http://www.freethehops.org/index.php