By KBarton10 on Mar 24, 2008 in Opinions & Rants, commentary, current events, science | 2 Comments
We ate all the big stuff, most of the medium sized stuff, and we’re working on the small stuff now. Next comes the really small stuff, those critters so important to the food chain that their absence upsets the entire apple cart.
West coast salmon virtually collapsed this year despite our best lip service, we [...]
By KBarton10 on Mar 15, 2008 in science | 2 Comments
It’s like realizing the President of the United States is standing next to you - as you struggle to pull your hands out of your pockets to shake his hand, the suddenness of it all disengages your frontal lobe..
When you wake up in jail, and they remove the Secret Service arsenal from your various orifices [...]
By KBarton10 on Mar 11, 2008 in environment, science | 2 Comments
I go to the doctor with assorted ailments and he prescribes I eat a carp a day and call him in the morning?
It’s a familiar theme that we touched on before - but as more evidence appears in the press, we might want to cut the big drug companies out of the mix - [...]
By KBarton10 on Mar 10, 2008 in current events, entomology, science | 31 Comments
How’s your entomology? The 50 million year old mayfly likely needs to be keyed to genus and species.
..or you can take the shortcut, and hope no one notices you might have bent the rules a bit..
An Islamic text entitled “The Atlas of Creation” has created quite a stir, it purports to show Darwinism doesn’t [...]
By KBarton10 on Feb 23, 2008 in science | 0 Comments
You cut most of your science classes in high school, I’m just paying you back for them misdeeds.
It’ll be plenty expensive, you’ll insist you need them, and when you find out what it’s made from - you’ll rethink the whole “Brownline” genre.
Scientists have developed a self sealing rubber that can be torn, severed and [...]
By KBarton10 on Feb 2, 2008 in science | 2 Comments
Every father will resolve to take their kid fishing, spinach will end it’s run as the worst possible food Mom can serve, Tuna fish is going to be in every middle school lunch pail, and sardines will resume their rightful place on supermarket shelves.
Fantasy? Not likely, every youngster caught with a girlie mag, or [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 29, 2008 in science | 0 Comments
Saw this on a forum and got spanked pretty savagely. A 65% score won’t earn a scholarship, but I might make the Dean’s List - as a disciplinary “hard case.”
The Macroinvertebrate Match Game compliments of Allegheny College, a quick and dirty assessment of your aquatic bug skills. Additional suffering is available at the Waterfowl [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 21, 2008 in humor, science | 4 Comments
Evolutionists have surmised Man is the result of a long chain of genetic events whose ancestors lived in water. Divine Theory has always touted the lack of evidence in the fossil record to support that conclusion. Four years ago a paleontologist unearthed a “fish” that had both neck and “hands“, the missing link in [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 18, 2008 in science | 1 Comment
An informative handbook on the effects of climate change on Scottish fisheries was my latest find, published in August 2006, it discusses the broader issues of climate change for fishermen, not scientists.
Focused on the North Sea and the cod fishery, it still broaches a variety of lesser known effects of climate change on the [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 16, 2008 in current events, science | 2 Comments
Nanoscience to the rescue with line flash a thing of the past, and night fishing about to get a boost.
Scientists have leveraged carbon nanotubes to make the blackest black, almost 30 times darker than the current standard. Light absorption would be a useful tool to cut line flash, it’d be the Stealth Fighter of fly [...]