Is that a computer in your lap or are you glad to see me?

CBS News | Laptops A Male Fertility Risk? | December 9, 2004�11:57:49: “Balancing laptop computers on the lap raises the scrotum’s temperature, say researchers including Yefim Sheynkin, MD, FACS, of the urology department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. About 15-20 percent of couples that want to get pregnant aren’t able […]

Geeky comment about going 7,000 miles an hour

I somehow find it heartening but scary that the new NASA scramjet that can travel two miles a second still gets taken up for a test drive by an airplane built 45 years ago. That old bird is no doubt older than 3/4 of the guys working on this project. Stats, Picture correction: It is […]

Galveston

It was just over 104 years ago that the “single worst natural disaster in U.S. history” hit Galveston, TX. Something we should never forget. The hurricane that slammed into the barrier island claimed at least 8,000 people – nobody knows an accurate tally. There was no Jim Cantori standing around watching people board up their […]