Trying to figure out how to connect my twitter and blog so that if I update one it shows up in the other. Any help would be appreciated. I think I'll try to break this puppy out now and make some money on it.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Doppleganger Week on Facebook
This new Facebook fad has been going on for like 2 weeks now where someone updates their profile with a pic of a celebrity they think or has been told they look like and then they add a sentence saying that it's doppelganger week and you should do the same thing. It's all in good fun. People say I look like Matthew McConaughey. So go ahead and add the celeb pic to your profile pics. Have fun, Enjoy.
Lost Season 6 premier
Tonight I'm watching Lost. Are you?
ABC has put out a few previews of tonights show. I've read a few articles where the producers have said they are giving up on time travel and are trying to wrap up the story arcs for each character. I know it's a waste of time, but it's an entertaining waste of time. I'm sure my wife will come in during the middle of the show and ask me what's going on. I'm starting to think that the show is about humans being tested by some greater beings to see if we can handle something or to see if we have trancsended our animalism to become enlightened. Something like that. Alternate realities may be at play as well. I may write about it more later. Until then, Enjoy the show!
ABC has put out a few previews of tonights show. I've read a few articles where the producers have said they are giving up on time travel and are trying to wrap up the story arcs for each character. I know it's a waste of time, but it's an entertaining waste of time. I'm sure my wife will come in during the middle of the show and ask me what's going on. I'm starting to think that the show is about humans being tested by some greater beings to see if we can handle something or to see if we have trancsended our animalism to become enlightened. Something like that. Alternate realities may be at play as well. I may write about it more later. Until then, Enjoy the show!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Increase in Teen Pregnancy and abortion in 2006
Recently a think tank analyzed the teen birth rates for 2006 and compared to the previous years, the number of teen pregnancies went up for the first time since the 1990s . I read the full report here. They attribute the increase in teen pregnancies to the abstinence only campaign brought about by George W. Bush's presidency. If that's the case, then this pregnancy increase would likely be sustained after 2006 since the abtinence only funding didn't stop after 2006.
So, I did a Google trend search of some terms related to pregnancy and teenagers. I know that this isn't completely scientific, but it stands to reason that if people are searching for the terms that there is a reason for it. See the google search science with flu symptoms and tracking flu outbreaks this past year. Here is what I found. Searches for "teen sex" went way up in 2006 but then went down back to normal after that. A control search for "birth control" remained steady over the years. So what happened in 2006 that made teenagers have a lot of sex but then stopped? Did the number of teenagers that would have had sex anyways reach a maximum that year and they all got pregnant? Unlikely.
There has to be some factor that influenced the teens both to have sex and then to stop. Seeing all their friends getting pregnant and having babies would stop a lot of kids from having unprotected sex, but the search for birth control didn't go up after 2006.
Perhaps the cause of the births in 2006 were the sex parties in 2005?
So, I did a Google trend search of some terms related to pregnancy and teenagers. I know that this isn't completely scientific, but it stands to reason that if people are searching for the terms that there is a reason for it. See the google search science with flu symptoms and tracking flu outbreaks this past year. Here is what I found. Searches for "teen sex" went way up in 2006 but then went down back to normal after that. A control search for "birth control" remained steady over the years. So what happened in 2006 that made teenagers have a lot of sex but then stopped? Did the number of teenagers that would have had sex anyways reach a maximum that year and they all got pregnant? Unlikely.
There has to be some factor that influenced the teens both to have sex and then to stop. Seeing all their friends getting pregnant and having babies would stop a lot of kids from having unprotected sex, but the search for birth control didn't go up after 2006.
Perhaps the cause of the births in 2006 were the sex parties in 2005?
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Pollen is my enemy
I just started to get what I thought was a cold, but then I looked at the weather channel's pollen count for my area and it seems that trees are blossoming like crazy right now, releasing into the air tiny particles that I sweep up into my nose causing me to sneeze and have an uncontrollable runny nose. Unfortunately, I'm an allergy sufferer. I took allergy shots as a kid and they did nothing, at least nothing that I noticed. But there is always benadryl. Take it before bed and it will knock you. *Yawn* I think I need to go to bed now.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
What White People Like
To all my fans. You know who you are, I'm sorry I haven't written in a while. I'll try harder.
Stuff White People Like is a new blog that will make you laugh. I'm amazed how funny it is. It's like an anthropologist discussing her observations of white people. I can imagine it analagous to a scientist immersing themselves into a tribe deep in africa, writing about what you need to do inorder to fit in with the tribe.
Stuff White People Like is a new blog that will make you laugh. I'm amazed how funny it is. It's like an anthropologist discussing her observations of white people. I can imagine it analagous to a scientist immersing themselves into a tribe deep in africa, writing about what you need to do inorder to fit in with the tribe.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
I knew those plants were slacking.
Have you ever wondered if you could get more bang from those lazy plants. Are they really using the least amount of energy to grow? Could they be bigger and use less water or fertilizer? A team of researchers at the University of Illinois asking the same questions used computer modelingto figure out how to make plants more efficient. This is sort of my line of work, except I don't fit models to plant processes. These guys fit a model to the plant data and then simulated photosynthesis. Pretty cool if you ask me. It must have been a little complicated since they needed a supercomputer to do it. Then, by tweaking some parameters here or there, they made the computer plant model produce better plants and use less energy. Quite a feat with all the different processes going on during photosynthesis.
I wonder if they could tweak the model to see if plants could suck up more carbon dioxide (CO2), then we wouldn't have to worry about a global warming problem, just breed plants for those specific traits and voila, no more polar bears swimming for days without finding ice.
They think that the plants weren't being as efficient as possible because they have something in them saying that they need to reserve energy for survival. Silly plants, don't you know that we'll just eat you.
Links if you want to get into the details.
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