Art Chester's Blog, page 35
August 14, 2013
Sanjay Gupta and Marijuana
Science Fact: Sanjay Gupta and marijuana? The good Doctor associating with potheads? That’s habitual marijuana smokers, in case you’ve spent the last fifty years on the moon. Often news anchors try to avoid making news , but in the case … Continue reading →
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Give a Great Talk when it Counts
Sometimes you need to give a great talk, a presentation that’s really important to you. This may happen to you rarely or all the time, it may be easy or excruciatingly difficult. I have a step-by-step checklist that may be … Continue reading →
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August 7, 2013
Cantilevers that Sense Bacteria Could Save Your Life
Science Fact: A news item about nanoscale “cantilevers” may hold the answer to a serious problem facing hospitals. If you arrive at a hospital with a serious bacterial infection, you may have only a few hours to live unless the … Continue reading →
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August 4, 2013
More Airplane Space
We all want more airplane space. Wouldn’t it be great to have a portable space-time wormhole? You could stuff all your travel baggage into it, tuck it in your pocket, and when you arrived at your hotel room, voila! … Continue reading →
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August 3, 2013
Two Meanings of Psi
Science Fact: Psi, as the 23rd (penultimate) letter of the Greek alphabet, has many meanings. When you’re using math to describe research results or propose physical mechanisms, you use symbols as shorthand for things so that you can manipulate the … Continue reading →
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August 2, 2013
Mai Tais
Science Speculation: The Mai Tai is a brilliant invention. Whoever invented it wanted the drink to be exciting at the first sip, tasty throughout the drink, and still good-tasting near the end of the drink when the ice had begun … Continue reading →
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Physics and Psi
Science Fact: This post deals with physics and Psi — in this case, “Psi” is being used as an umbrella term covering ESP and PK, as explained below. ESP, extrasensory perception, is a term adopted by Duke University psychologist J. … Continue reading →
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Exoplanets Teeming with Bug-Eyed Monsters
Science Fact: The science reports I read have been recently full of breathless reports from astronomers diligently discovering exoplanets, that is, extrasolar planets. Those are planets outside our Solar System that might be like Earth, or at least similar enough … Continue reading →
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