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Sex Nerdist: My Spleen is Bigger Than Yours

You know those cancer movies where the main character goes in for a routine doctor’s visit and gets really bad news? Well, I’ve got the light-hearted buddy movie version of that story, starring me and a giant spleen-cyst named Igor. This would be the reason I haven’t been on Nerdist for a while spilling my [...]

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That’s One Small Step For Newbs. One…GiantLeapForTehLulz.

So. To reinvigorate America’s waning interest in the space program, NASA has taken an inspired and admirable step; creating a freeware game called Moonbase Alpha where the player takes on the role of an astronaut working to resolve an emergency on a hypothetical moonbase in the not too distant future. However, in what amounts to [...]

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Thanks be to SCIENCE!

I recently started hosting a science program on the REVISION3.com intertainment website. It’s in conjunction with DISCOVER MAGAZINE, so they did the best they could at making me not seem entirely dumb. This episode is all about Morphing Matter.

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Forensic Facial Reconstruction & Fainting Goats

Forensic Facial Reconstruction If you’ve ever seen the show Bones (or left the Discovery Channel on for more than 3 hours) you are familiar with Facial Reconstruction, the process of reconstructing facial features using only skeletal remains. Though it seems like an impossible task, trained scientists can determine the age, sex, and race of an individual [...]

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Look! In The Sky! It’s Mars!

We live in an incredibly unique time. According to an email I received, “Earth is catching up with Mars in an encounter that will culminate in the closest approach between the two planets in recorded history.” Astronomers did the calculations. This may not happen again for another 60,000 years! On August 27th, Mars will reach [...]

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Staring At Breasts & Miracle Fruit!

Staring At Breasts Makes You Live Longer Researchers in Frankfurt, Germany found that, for men, staring at breasts for 10 minutes a day was equivalent to 30 minutes of aerobic exercise and could potentially increase lifespan by five years. Well congratulations every single man on earth, you’ll all be living longer than nature wanted you [...]

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Medical Oddities in My Backyard

There are many reasons to visit Philadelphia – the Liberty Bell, it was our nation’s first capitol, the Franklin Institute, and I’ve been told we also have several sports teams that do quite well. But as a diehard science fan my big sell for coming to Philly has to be, hands down, the Mütter Museum. [...]

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Science Party Tricks

For the past few days my computer has been a patient at the Genius Bar, (she needs a new logic board – poor thing) so I do not have a full column this week. But I would never let you leave empty-handed…so I give you this video of 10 science-y party tricks! British accents, jaunty [...]

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Space Sex, Moustache Fish & Death By Insomnia!

No Sex in The ISS (International Space Station) According to NASA commander Alan Poindexter, (his real name – I’m guessing high school was pretty rough for Al) sexual relations between crewmembers are strictly forbidden. Yet another thing our Mars500 crew is being deprived of! I wonder if they’re allowed porn? PS – Time Magazine made [...]

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Bionic Pets and Jane Austen’s Relation to Mouse Pee!

Jane Austen’s Relation to Mouse Pee Biologists at the University of Liverpool have named a protein in mouse urine after Mr. Darcy, the famous character from Jane Austen’s novel “Pride & Prejudice”. This species-specific pheromone, “darcin”, draws the female mice to the odor of male mice. Now I’ll be the first to admit that most [...]

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