• Gadgets

    The PopSci Staff Boom/Bust Holiday Gift Guide

    By Posted on 12.15.2008 7 Comments

    12.19.2008 at 04:26pm - Comment by daq

    Is there a period tracking app that can track several periods? Would be useful for guys :-)

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Double Amputee Sprinter Cleared For Olympic Competition

    By Posted on 5.16.2008 30 Comments

    Its about time. After an excruciating and absurd debate, double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to compete in the Olympics. Pistorius won his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport today which immediately overturned an asinine ruling by the International Association of Athletics Federations which stated Pistorius gained an unfair advantage from his prosthetics.

    5.17.2008 at 12:01pm - Comment by daq

    This guy has a very clear advantage. There is no reason he should be allowed to compete. There is no such thing as a good time to ignore science. That's the beauty of it, it's there whether you want it or not.

  • Science

    Man Constructs Suicide Bot

    By Posted on 3.24.2008 6 Comments

    An 81-year-old man constructed a machine that allowed him to remotely fire a .22 semi-automatic pistol, then set it up in his driveway and killed himself. Reportedly, the man's relatives had been encouraging him to move out of his home and into a care facility. Instead, he did some research on the Internet and built what was only described as a complex machine—the local paper that broke the story is keeping wraps on how it actually worked.

    3.24.2008 at 04:41pm - Comment by daq

    "the man's relatives had been encouraging him to move out of his home and into a care facility." After that he conveniently constructs a suicide bot to kill himself. Fishy to say the least...

  • Science

    The Impending Alzheimer’s Boom

    By Posted on 3.19.2008 5 Comments

    The Alzheimers Association released a report yesterday with some frightening estimates regarding the future of the brain-wasting disease. One out of every eight baby boomers are likely to develop Alzheimers at some point, and the disease is now the seventh deadliest in the country. By 2010, there will be 500,000 new cases each year. By 2050, that number will jump to a million. This means the costs of caring for these patients are, naturally, going to jump dramatically.

    3.19.2008 at 06:56pm - Comment by daq

    1hyplady, Can I borrow your tin foil hat some time?

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

    By Posted on 2.27.2008 39 Comments

    Everybody's favorite dead-pan teacher and game show host, Ben Stein, is the face of a new documentary to be released this April called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". It's ostensibly a movie about attacks on freedom of speech in today's hostile climate among scientists in academia, but on closer inspection it really seems to be a thinly veiled screed for Intelligent Design.

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    2.28.2008 at 11:14am - Comment by daq

    ID is not science -- it's BS. I can't believe there are intelligent sounding people here defending ID. Obviously evolution has ignored quite a few people here for the past thousand years.



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