Who says they don’t get any holidays? Hell, they even have their own logo, just like the crosses, stars and crescents symbolizing other religions. Today our most fervent preachers and avid seekers of converts get their only holiday all year, one that most of them will spend furiously not celebrating, NATIONAL ATHEIST DAY! Steadfast believers in […]
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Did you notice that? The earth has slowed down its incessant spinning, and in the past century our day is 1.7 milliseconds longer than it used to be, requiring us to add a full second to June 30th a few years ago, one of those arcane facts we celebrate on NATIONAL EARTH’S ROTATION DAY! Maybe you
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On November 24, 1859 a book was published that would change the world and the way we look at it, making today NATIONAL EVOLUTION DAY! Charles Darwin had spent years painstakingly researching “The Origin Of The Species,” the book that founded evolutionary biology. Originally released with the mouthy title “On the Origin of Species by
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They say stupid is the new brilliant, they in this case being blithering idiots. This being America, however, even idiots get a Day, and the rest of us just have to shut up and endure NATIONAL DUNCE DAY! In a nation that once celebrated brilliance and achievement, and boasted of our many scientific breakthroughs, we have been
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Who says they don’t get any holidays? Hell, they even have their own logo! Today our most fervent preachers and avid seekers of converts get their only holiday all year, one that most of them will spend furiously not celebrating, NATIONAL ATHEIST DAY! They are steadfast believers in disbelief, adherents of non-adherence and practitioners of
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Sammy Science here, after a long absence from these pages. No, I haven’t been ill or on any sort of sabbatical, just tired of the lack of scientific acumen of the readers of bobcrespo.com. This is supposed to be a Science Q&A, not a forum for science-bashing, religious preaching or wacky theories. Let’s see what
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Good news, space cadets! Senior analysts and researchers here at bobcrespo.com headquarters in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.A., Planet Earth have been perusing the latest scientific studies of daydreamers and the big news is just as we’ve suspected all along: DAYDREAMING IS A GOOD THING AND A WANDERING MIND IS A HEALTHY MIND! What can
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Sammy Science back in the house, ready to talk science. I don’t know why I keep writing for this website, since so few of the people who write in believe in science. Either that, or they’re completely off the wall. Not that it matters much to scientists or to science itself who believes in it.
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Sammy Science back in the house. A lot of people have been asking us scientists what to do about the massive oil leak fouling the Gulf of Mexico, a huge ecological disaster. Unfortunately, scientists are not really experts on this sort of thing, it’s more of a technology problem, or rather, a massive failure of
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Once again science informs us that we are part caveman, specifically Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis. That’s the scientific name for Neanderthal man, our genetic cousins with whom we shared the planet until they all bit the dust around 25 or 30,000 years ago. These people roamed the Earth for about half a million years, a heck
