The World According to Squed

Isn't science so much fun? So here are the articles I am finding awesome: (These are my headlines.)

The Jet Stream is acting weird... polar melting, sun spots, what's going on?

5 minutes to the end of the world... they ticked us down another minute on the Doomsday clock. I miss 1991, back when life is good, 17 minutes to Doomsday. Ahh the end of the Cold War, wasn't that nice?

Indian down, Three More to Go - India is about to finally be rid of Polio! That is kind of seriously exciting! Now for Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. Then on to the next!

Oops, more earthquakes... Fracking in Ohio...

Columbus Caused Syphilis - Ok really he just brought it over from the Americas. I totally had not heard about this until now. You know considering how many locals were killed by small pox etc, there is a part of me that smiles at the idea that even though we are just figuring it out that they had their revenge.

See this is what I am talking about, science is so fun... they are finally going to get to watch something fall into a black hole. And sad thing to acknowledge I didn't know the center of our galaxy is a made up of a massive black hole. I am going to assume my cool science teachers told me this and I simply forgot it. Ahh the things I used to know about the world, in the 9th grade.

Hints of God - Ok really hints of the Higgs Particle, which you should already know is what some call the God Particle, searching for what gives all things mass. So really shouldn't it just be called the Mass Particle? I love all things CERN. Black hole that could destroy us all, finding God, can something actually travel faster then the speed of light after all? Could Einstein have been wrong? Such fun stuff.

There was a great article a few years ago in Vanity Fair by a guy who talked about how he always reads Scientific American and can usually follow just fine, and how he thought he was doing really well with all the science as he was interviewing folks at CERN and then he sat in on a lecture for all those scientists and 30 seconds in couldn't understand anything they were saying and realized how very much they had been dumbing it all down for him. I'm ok with that, it still makes me feel smart to be able to hang in there and understand Scientific American.