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 [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 15, 2008 in Fly Fishing, science | 4 Comments
There’s great potential in thin film solar fabric for fly fishermen as we’re always the last idiot to head for shade. Rather than sell the extra juice back to the Grid, it makes sense to start thinking about what gadget you want to power, as it’s your cranium that’s baking, it should be your [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 13, 2008 in current events, fishing, science | 0 Comments
I like the idea, but it smacks of a “gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today” ecological balance. It’s nice that these issues are slowly being acknowledged, but passing the burden to someone else isn’t deprivation, it’s just making the minimum payment on a credit card.
I’m not an ecology zealot, I still have to [...]
By KBarton10 on Jan 9, 2008 in science | 5 Comments
Singlebarbed has always led the charge on cutting edge technology, willing to suffer the slings and arrows of the path less traveled, allowing readers to giggle at my inevitable pratfall.
“My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots.“
That gives me 42 years to [...]
By KBarton10 on Dec 29, 2007 in science | 0 Comments
Reclamation of natural streams within the confines of Seattle has been an ongoing project for over a decade, results have been released in a report outlining many of the ills, successes, and cost of the effort.
Entitled “State of the Waters 2007,” the report outlines what you may suspect; treatment of the streams and banks [...]
By KBarton10 on Dec 24, 2007 in science | 0 Comments
I always had a fantasy about a log cabin with a pristine trout stream chaser, I modified that only slightly in the last decade, adding massive Internet pipe to the mix.
Outside of the money part - which still eludes me, the technology will be available next year. Toshiba will be marketing the “mini nuclear [...]
By KBarton10 on Dec 15, 2007 in science | 2 Comments
It’s called “the things you can’t Un-See,” an Internet phenomenon where a buddy sends you a non-descriptive link with some bland come-hither line like, “I thought you would like this…”
Clicking it results in an involuntary gag, or a spouse that thinks she’s married a pervert - now you’re obliged to find something equally gross [...]