<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522</id><updated>2011-11-13T19:26:55.815-08:00</updated><category term='victoria silvstedt'/><category term='chocolate'/><category term='supermodels'/><category term='scientific blogging'/><category term='persia white'/><category term='global warming'/><category term='gong li'/><category term='Almuneda Fernandez'/><category term='indigo girls'/><category term='mars'/><category term='mexico'/><category term='hersheys'/><category term='orgasms'/><category term='environment'/><category term='cinco de mayo'/><category term='climate change'/><category term='daryl hannah'/><category term='girl give hope to ugly guys'/><category term='spain'/><category term='consensus'/><category term='petra nemcova'/><category term='science'/><title type='text'>Science 2.0</title><subtitle type='html'>Making the change since spring 2002 ...</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>615</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-5764444369244569153</id><published>2007-10-17T18:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-17T18:46:19.956-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Science Has Bad News For Goth Chicks - Vampires May Not Be Real</title><summary type='text'>Groundbreaking - and heartwarmingly unessential - research done by University of Central Florida physics professor Costas Efthimiou has attempted to confirm what a generation of suicide girls has always feared - that vampires do not exist.His reasoning?  On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was just over 530 million people.  If one vampire existed on that day and bit one person per month, and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/5764444369244569153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=5764444369244569153' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/5764444369244569153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/5764444369244569153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/10/science-has-bad-news-for-goth-chicks.html' title='Science Has Bad News For Goth Chicks - Vampires May Not Be Real'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-5978660343591130415</id><published>2007-06-08T16:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-06-08T16:13:43.186-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Science of Relationships II:  Keeping Magic Alive</title><summary type='text'>Sexy Scientist is a rare and powerful cardPeople are not always sure there is a science to relatonships until I spend a minute explaining it to them.   Everything in the universe is about inductance.   Inductance has lots of gobbledy-gook definitions that require you to know what a lot of other words mean, so physics definitions don't always help, but inertia is part of the lexicon and everyone </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/5978660343591130415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=5978660343591130415' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/5978660343591130415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/5978660343591130415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/06/science-of-relationships-ii-keeping.html' title='The Science of Relationships II:  Keeping Magic Alive'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-6439208791926568411</id><published>2007-05-22T20:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T20:44:24.512-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Go Green By Switching To Fruit Power</title><summary type='text'>It confuses some people that I can be an environmentalist and a Republican.  It's confusing because Democrats are handed a checklist of "coalition of the oppressed" platforms they have to believe in, so they don't understand picking and choosing positions based on logic and common sense.  Republicans don't much care if you are for ice-picking fetus skulls or paying high taxes, as long as you have</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/6439208791926568411/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=6439208791926568411' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/6439208791926568411'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/6439208791926568411'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/05/go-green-by-switching-to-fruit-power.html' title='Go Green By Switching To Fruit Power'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-1619216279074512113</id><published>2007-05-15T19:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-15T19:57:40.015-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='girl give hope to ugly guys'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='victoria silvstedt'/><title type='text'>Girls Give Hope To Ugly Guys Everywhere Part VI</title><summary type='text'>Science articles, even in the casual world of the internet, take a great deal of research.  It's not always easy making science look easy.As all of you know, my articles are meticulously detailed, well thought out and ergonomically terrific in almost every way.  That doesn't happen by accident.  But sometimes revelations for new articles happen by accident, like when I am researching something </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/1619216279074512113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=1619216279074512113' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/1619216279074512113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/1619216279074512113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/05/girls-give-hope-to-ugly-guys-everywhere.html' title='Girls Give Hope To Ugly Guys Everywhere Part VI'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-2461577617537005656</id><published>2007-05-07T19:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T19:57:06.782-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Smart teens don’t have sex (or kiss much either)</title><summary type='text'>High intelligence is the best protection against early sexual activity during adolescence, research has shown.  Can it be that intelligent kids don't need free condoms to be convinced they shouldn't have sex?  Well, yes, that may be, but it may also be that smart kids just can't get dates.  Virgin by choice?  Or she just can't get a date?To reach this conclusion about intelligence and sexual </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/2461577617537005656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=2461577617537005656' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/2461577617537005656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/2461577617537005656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/05/smart-teens-dont-have-sex-or-kiss-much.html' title='Smart teens don’t have sex (or kiss much either)'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-114688327683707218</id><published>2007-05-03T19:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-03T19:12:28.161-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cinco de mayo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Almuneda Fernandez'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mexico'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spain'/><title type='text'>The Spanish Celebrate Cinco de Mayo By Annexing Mexico</title><summary type='text'>Presidente del Gobierno José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain said the Spanish Republic has decided to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by revoking Mexican independence:"It has always been a common misperception that the 5th of May is a celebration of Mexican independence from Spain.  This is not correct,  is is actually a celebration of victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, but </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/114688327683707218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=114688327683707218' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/114688327683707218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/114688327683707218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/05/spanish-celebrate-cinco-de-mayo-by.html' title='The Spanish Celebrate Cinco de Mayo By Annexing Mexico'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-2400420258166952406</id><published>2007-04-30T16:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-30T23:02:28.943-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Music, Math and Models</title><summary type='text'>I've said a few times that music is math.  I've also said a few times that I'm a Chinese jet pilot and that Halle Berry wants to bear my children so it's probably hard to know when you should take me seriously and when you shouldn't.But let's go back to this "music is math" stuff.  On that part I'm not kidding.  At the end of the day, a lot of things can be math, including music and supermodels.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/2400420258166952406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=2400420258166952406' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/2400420258166952406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/2400420258166952406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/04/music-math-and-models.html' title='Music, Math and Models'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-2165759007145961297</id><published>2007-04-19T19:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T19:44:19.316-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='science'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orgasms'/><title type='text'>The Science of Orgasms</title><summary type='text'>I read an article from Men's Health talking about how women get aroused during exercises.Specifically, hanging leg raises.  "Coregasm" they called it, because some women can, apparently, have an orgasm while doing these exercises.  Aside from the fact that it's a really cool term, I was a little jealous.  Men need to do some real work to climax.  Sure, we all know women have it easier in that </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/2165759007145961297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=2165759007145961297' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/2165759007145961297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/2165759007145961297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/04/science-of-orgasms.html' title='The Science of Orgasms'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-2558133116516919907</id><published>2007-04-17T12:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-17T12:38:36.107-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Queer As Fish: Estrogen in Pittsburgh rivers</title><summary type='text'>There's a lot of "Can X make you gay?" articles being written these days.  This fellow says soy is making you gay and even the New York Times wonders if you have a gay car.Now a study from the University of Pittsburgh says that fish from Pittsburgh rivers contain substances that act like estrogen.Estrogen.  The female hormone.  So you'll have to forgive me for the topical television reference, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/2558133116516919907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=2558133116516919907' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/2558133116516919907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/2558133116516919907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/04/queer-as-fish-estrogen-in-pittsburgh.html' title='Queer As Fish: Estrogen in Pittsburgh rivers'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-3364322692603876439</id><published>2007-04-15T12:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-15T12:12:35.295-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Practical Science Part I - Bugs Bunny and Beer</title><summary type='text'>Anyone can tell you, the surest test of your science chops is your ability to make a kid understand it.  Science, at its most fundamental, can be understood by anyone if explained properly.   Science is, for the most part, conceptual.  The math is relatively unimportant as long as you understand why things work the way they work.Bugs Bunny, I want my 4 hours of research backI bring that up </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/3364322692603876439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=3364322692603876439' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/3364322692603876439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/3364322692603876439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/04/practical-science-part-i-bugs-bunny-and.html' title='Practical Science Part I - Bugs Bunny and Beer'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-7855542351789442398</id><published>2007-04-07T10:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-06T22:30:00.864-07:00</updated><title type='text'>An Equation About Easter Miracles - Should Captain Carrot Quit Smoking?</title><summary type='text'>I got some questions from a writer named Captain Carrot, i.e. a stranger, who deduced that, because I write this column for free, I must also be available for free science consultation and/or general life and relationship advice.Here is a sample: I am 27. Should I try to stop smoking, or will I regret it later in life?Most of you know me well enough by now to realize that, unless you provide </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/7855542351789442398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=7855542351789442398' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/7855542351789442398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/7855542351789442398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/04/equation-about-easter-miracles-should.html' title='An Equation About Easter Miracles - Should Captain Carrot Quit Smoking?'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-114506837709408944</id><published>2007-04-06T07:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-06T21:47:27.958-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Easter</title><summary type='text'>Be sure to enjoy a wholesome Crusade.  I know I will:Even if you don't admire my Photoshop skills, you have to admit I don't look as silly as a British guy who signs up to be crucified and then claims God told him at the last minute not to do it.Maybe I'm crazy but I bet God didn't have as much to do with it as watching nine Filipinos before him get whipped and nailed to crosses.  That would make</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/114506837709408944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=114506837709408944' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/114506837709408944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/114506837709408944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/04/happy-easter-be-sure-to-enjoy.html' title='Happy Easter'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-3669095232513085477</id><published>2007-03-19T13:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-20T12:16:13.678-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='global warming'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='petra nemcova'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='indigo girls'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gong li'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daryl hannah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='climate change'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='persia white'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='supermodels'/><title type='text'>Girls Gone Green</title><summary type='text'>I saw a press release about a global warming 'virtual march'    ( we'll get back to that ) and a tour being conducted by Laurie David ( married to "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David and thus an expert on climate science, also founder of the website that put out the press release ) and Sheryl Crow called the "Stop Global Warming College Tour"  beginning April 9th in Dallas.I was itching to find </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/3669095232513085477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=3669095232513085477' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/3669095232513085477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/3669095232513085477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/03/girls-gone-green.html' title='Girls Gone Green'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-211346068739956857</id><published>2007-03-05T20:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-05T20:59:16.058-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hersheys'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='consensus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chocolate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scientific blogging'/><title type='text'>Who Funds The Chocolate Consensus?</title><summary type='text'>In case you were hiding under a rock, there was the scientific equivalent of an earth-shattering thunderclap that emanated from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meetings held February 15th-19th in San Francisco - to be honest, they pretend everything they say is big news, you can see 20 articles from it on Scientific Blogging - but I mean this was legitimately big </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/211346068739956857/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=211346068739956857' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/211346068739956857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/211346068739956857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/03/who-funds-chocolate-consensus.html' title='Who Funds The Chocolate Consensus?'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-7501690628904217128</id><published>2007-02-14T14:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-14T14:51:42.629-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Heidi Klum Is Not Grabbing My Butt This Valentine's Day</title><summary type='text'> But she is probably grabbing Seal's.  Again.*   I don't understand how I consistently get 72% of the votes for 'best butt' on my blog and he gets Heidi Klum.  That guy is my greatest foe.  Well, he and Scott Baio.Do you think it's because when I took the "Which Star Trek character are you?" test I ended up too much like Kirk?  I should have known she would be a Picard girl.If you don't have </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/7501690628904217128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=7501690628904217128' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/7501690628904217128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/7501690628904217128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/02/heidi-klum-is-not-grabbing-my-butt-this.html' title='Heidi Klum Is Not Grabbing My Butt This Valentine&apos;s Day'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-117001889418426594</id><published>2007-01-28T13:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-28T13:32:39.256-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Would Female Orgasms Kill Men?</title><summary type='text'> Always thought women were the stronger sex?  Okay, I admit it, me too.   But I am inclined to be a little skeptical when someone pimping their book cites ancillary evidence rather than studies so even if the logic is good I tend to maintain a healthy disbelief.   Ryuichi Kaneko and Dr. Kunio Kitamura, two of the co-authors of "Sex no Subete ga Wakaru Hon (Everything You Need to Know About Sex)" </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/117001889418426594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=117001889418426594' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/117001889418426594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/117001889418426594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/01/would-female-orgasms-kill-men.html' title='Would Female Orgasms Kill Men?'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116855112059894807</id><published>2007-01-11T13:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-11T13:43:48.980-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Scientific Guide To Dating</title><summary type='text'>I just learned that Hilary Swank and some guy named Chad Lowe ( i.e. nobody ) are getting a divorce after a long separation.   I have to tell you I saw this coming.Did I see this coming because she has an Oscar and forgot to mention him when she received it?No.Did I see it coming because a girl who looks like this should have stepped up to someone who does not look like her little sister a long </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116855112059894807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116855112059894807' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116855112059894807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116855112059894807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/01/scientific-guide-to-dating.html' title='The Scientific Guide To Dating'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116819916297790888</id><published>2007-01-07T11:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-08T08:47:12.030-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Population Crisis The Left And Right Can Agree On</title><summary type='text'>Population science is more art than science so you can count on me to be a little skeptical.  However, there are times when the numbers are just too alarming and we have to mobilize for action. What is this looming population catastrophe?  It's Elvis impersonators.  Even the Center for Disease Control has sounded the alarm about this issue. If the CDC is worried about an issue, so am I.When Elvis</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116819916297790888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116819916297790888' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116819916297790888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116819916297790888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/01/population-crisis-left-and-right-can.html' title='A Population Crisis The Left And Right Can Agree On'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116771385288999715</id><published>2007-01-01T20:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-01T20:57:32.916-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes,Vagina, There Is A Santa Claus</title><summary type='text'>Seriously, I did not originate that headline.  Clearly, I have nothing against vaginas, since I wrote articles talking about how women were using evolution to create two vaginas and enchant twice as many men at the same time and how the new James Bond got that job thanks to the magic of Sienna Miller's career-enhancing vagina but I am not completely obsessed with them either.  I actually kind of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116771385288999715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116771385288999715' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116771385288999715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116771385288999715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2007/01/yesvagina-there-is-santa-claus.html' title='Yes,Vagina, There Is A Santa Claus'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116580750807218301</id><published>2006-12-17T09:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-18T12:12:36.806-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The REAL Science of Christmas</title><summary type='text'>Sometimes people think that, because I write this column, I am somehow available for free science consulting services.  Obviously this is not the case but I don't mind the occasional question, especially if it concerns real puzzles like how Al Gore can prove a car in China doesn't cause global warming but a car in America does.Lately I have been pestered with questions about this whole Christmas </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116580750807218301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116580750807218301' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116580750807218301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116580750807218301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/12/real-science-of-christmas.html' title='The REAL Science of Christmas'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-114229600879466136</id><published>2006-12-07T04:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-07T08:53:33.846-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Plea For Eating Disorder Tolerance</title><summary type='text'>Just this once, we need to talk about something serious.  I know it's easy for people to have a knee-jerk reaction to the problems of others and just start laughing but we're all adults here.  So I am going to bring this up and then we can  discuss the underlying issues and what we, as a society, can do to help.You see, I just discovered that Dennis Quaid has "manorexia."  Sometimes he looks in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/114229600879466136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=114229600879466136' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/114229600879466136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/114229600879466136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/12/plea-for-eating-disorder-tolerance.html' title='A Plea For Eating Disorder Tolerance'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116538558073601415</id><published>2006-12-05T22:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-05T22:13:00.773-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Need A Christmas Gift For Your Left-Leaning Chick? Try Ethical Underwear</title><summary type='text'>You can absolutely bet when a marketing department uses the word "ethical" - about its lingerie - someone is out to make a buck at your expense.  And they think you will believe anything, my environmental friends.But French designer Sophie Young's g=9.8 company is doing it with a straight face.  In yet another blatant product placement on treehugger.com they claim the kinds of things only the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116538558073601415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116538558073601415' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116538558073601415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116538558073601415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/12/need-christmas-gift-for-your-left.html' title='Need A Christmas Gift For Your Left-Leaning Chick? Try Ethical Underwear'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116520584738500963</id><published>2006-12-03T20:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-03T22:19:53.183-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Want Men To Understand Your Relationship?  Make A Card Game Out Of It</title><summary type='text'>I've done acupressure for over 20 years.  Not because I am some wussified New Age guy who cites Three Men And A Baby as his favorite movie but because it works.  I have taken aspirin maybe once in that time for a headache.  I didn't learn it from an ancient Chinese guru, I learned it by reading a book.  When you are a young guy, you are just reading for knowledge and you can learn lots of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116520584738500963/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116520584738500963' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116520584738500963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116520584738500963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/12/want-men-to-understand-your.html' title='Want Men To Understand Your Relationship?  Make A Card Game Out Of It'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116499172995202738</id><published>2006-12-01T08:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-01T09:48:48.003-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Science Goes On A Spiritual Quest</title><summary type='text'>It still seemed like a great idea when I walked out of Kathmandu but by the time I crossed into Tibet I was starting to worry I had made a mistake.Scientists are always looking for answers, you see, and not all answers can be found at the bottom of a bottle of Miss Clairol.I had begun to doubt myself.  "Why blondes?" I found myself asking.  And "Maybe Al Gore is right and my car causes global </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116499172995202738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116499172995202738' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116499172995202738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116499172995202738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/12/science-goes-on-spiritual-quest.html' title='Science Goes On A Spiritual Quest'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116397385255595477</id><published>2006-11-19T13:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-19T23:19:11.416-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bond.  Cash Bond.</title><summary type='text'>People who have known me for a long time know that when I am not dazzling the world with scientific brilliance, I am a Formula One race car driver who also solves mysteries on TV.  What the rest of you may not know is that I was also the star of a major motion picture.  It was a different take on the James Bond story - I played an American spy who pretends to be a scientist and the movie was </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116397385255595477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116397385255595477' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116397385255595477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116397385255595477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/11/bond-cash-bond.html' title='Bond.  Cash Bond.'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-114123782450614052</id><published>2006-11-15T07:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-15T14:41:59.283-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Surest Sign Of The Apocalypse - No More Blondes</title><summary type='text'>According to this article, researchers at the World Health Organization have claimed that the last natural blonde will be born in Finland in 2202.  And the BBC version tells us German scientists have claimed this is due to decreasing frequency of the recessive gene for blonde hair.The SkyNet article states that when the last Ice Age ended 11,000 years ago blonde hair and blue eyes were developed </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/114123782450614052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=114123782450614052' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/114123782450614052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/114123782450614052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/11/surest-sign-of-apocalypse-no-more.html' title='Surest Sign Of The Apocalypse - No More Blondes'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116216686849689064</id><published>2006-11-13T15:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-13T23:26:10.463-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Face Recognition, Emotions And How Science Determined I Will Be The Next Jackie Chan</title><summary type='text'>*I saw this tool over on the Grunt a few weeks ago but the more I got curious about it the more I became interested and ended up writing a real article.  Here it is, not that any of you care, because it isn't all that funny. *Dynamic face recognition may be one of the last frontiers for quantifying why some of our simplest brain functions have difficulty being matched by computers.   As a kid, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116216686849689064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116216686849689064' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116216686849689064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116216686849689064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/11/face-recognition-emotions-and-how.html' title='Face Recognition, Emotions And How Science Determined I Will Be The Next Jackie Chan'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116296694271970858</id><published>2006-11-07T22:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-08T11:25:06.086-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mens Guide To Dating A Geek Girl V 1.0</title><summary type='text'>Let's face it, sometimes we get tired of dating models.  Sure, they clean up well but it gets annoying having to tell her she's beautiful a hundred times a day and the cocaine bill gets expensive.You might think you have no hope of getting an attractive low-maintenance geek girl and I am inclined to agree ( that you can't anyway ) but I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness, so </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116296694271970858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116296694271970858' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116296694271970858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116296694271970858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/11/mens-guide-to-dating-geek-girl-v-10.html' title='The Mens Guide To Dating A Geek Girl V 1.0'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116253668665234290</id><published>2006-11-04T07:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-31T12:16:29.126-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How Math Can Save Your Marriage - An Interview With The Author Of Geek Logik</title><summary type='text'>Ever have someone tell you a certain pesky question can't be answered scientifically?  Garth Sundem is here to help.   He's the author of Geek Logik and it's his business to help you mathematically solve life's most pressing problems.Garth has created plug-in numerical solutions that help you make decisions while completely abdicating accountability for your actions - because you can always claim</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116253668665234290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116253668665234290' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116253668665234290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116253668665234290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-math-can-save-your-marriage.html' title='How Math Can Save Your Marriage - An Interview With The Author Of Geek Logik'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116248970979726459</id><published>2006-11-02T09:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-02T20:21:34.103-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Guns, Guitars And Greenpeace</title><summary type='text'>As a younger man, I was a big fan of Greenpeace.  As time went on, I thought they lost their focus by branching out from protesting nuclear weapons to whaling and trees and basically hanging out a shingle that said, "If you send us money, we will protest for you."  I watched them change from instilling their people with scientific literacy to educating their people on political activism.  Then I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116248970979726459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116248970979726459' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116248970979726459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116248970979726459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/11/guns-guitars-and-greenpeace.html' title='Guns, Guitars And Greenpeace'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116240962784473940</id><published>2006-11-01T11:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-01T11:33:47.873-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Media Is Just Too Darn Suggestive These Days</title><summary type='text'>With all this business about girls dressing like tramps and articles stating that 140 incidents of sexual behavior occur on prime-time network television each week I am starting to worry that the media might be a tad over the top.Sure, you will automatically dismiss that kind of talk as an aging guy romancing the days of his youth.  I usually think that also.  I know we had suggestive TV when I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116240962784473940/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116240962784473940' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116240962784473940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116240962784473940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/11/media-is-just-too-darn-suggestive.html' title='The Media Is Just Too Darn Suggestive These Days'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116232394175332936</id><published>2006-10-31T11:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-10-31T13:47:44.560-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Do I Look Like A Movie Star To You?</title><summary type='text'>Sure, that celebrity recognition thing told me I looked like Jackie Chan, the Quantum Leap guy and the creepy rock star with a pig fixation* all in one outrageously sexy package, but I don't believe any of that.  They only keep 4,000 pictures in their database and none of them are ugly.What really fries my synapses is when people confuse me for someone incredibly offensive to anyone over the age </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116232394175332936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116232394175332936' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116232394175332936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116232394175332936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-i-look-like-movie-star-to-you.html' title='Do I Look Like A Movie Star To You?'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116215783581464374</id><published>2006-10-29T16:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-10-29T17:44:32.720-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New York City Declares War On Good Food</title><summary type='text'>It looks like the bibs are coming off in New York City.  The thing that advocates of good food have long feared is about to happen; New York City will be the first to ban trans fatty acids.Know why McDonald's fries tasted better when you were a kid?  Trans fatty acids - and a lot of salt.  Do they taste as good today?  Of course not.  The only people who think they taste just as good today hated </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116215783581464374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116215783581464374' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116215783581464374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116215783581464374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-york-city-declares-war-on-good.html' title='New York City Declares War On Good Food'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116218175374729627</id><published>2006-10-29T15:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-03T09:03:19.500-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How To Be A Real Man</title><summary type='text'>I respect people who do the Iron Man thing.  It's not easy to spend a day swimming 2.4 miles, then biking 112 miles and finishing off with a 26.2 mile marathon run.I read about Dick Hoyt and probably wouldn't have noticed the Iron Man part except I saw he is 65.  That's not trivial at any age, much less 65.Then I saw that he is 65 and does this whole thing carrying his 44-year-old disabled son </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116218175374729627/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116218175374729627' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116218175374729627'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116218175374729627'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-be-real-man.html' title='How To Be A Real Man'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116181747149620916</id><published>2006-10-25T20:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-27T09:32:43.613-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Science Has Bad News For Goth Chicks - Vampires May Not Be Real</title><summary type='text'>Groundbreaking - and heartwarmingly unessential - research done by University of Central Florida physics professor Costas Efthimiou has attempted to confirm what a generation of suicide girls has always feared - that vampires do not exist.His reasoning?  On Jan 1, 1600, the human population was just over 530 million people.  If one vampire existed on that day and bit one person per month, and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116181747149620916/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116181747149620916' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116181747149620916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116181747149620916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/10/science-has-bad-news-for-goth-chicks.html' title='Science Has Bad News For Goth Chicks - Vampires May Not Be Real'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-113695614831746311</id><published>2006-10-24T09:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-24T09:09:40.380-07:00</updated><title type='text'>AstroGlide - The Video Game</title><summary type='text'>If there's one thing I hate it's rumors about me and women I am not actually nailing.  And, frankly, this thing about me and Kate Beckinsale has gotten out of hand.  I am not responsible for the collapse of her marriage,  no matter how bad it looks.Okay, because your opinion of me is important, here is what happened:  I happened to be in an internet cafe in Japan and Kate is noodling away on a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/113695614831746311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=113695614831746311' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/113695614831746311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/113695614831746311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/10/astroglide-video-game.html' title='AstroGlide - The Video Game'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116138239873768758</id><published>2006-10-21T15:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-24T09:06:56.920-07:00</updated><title type='text'>When Good Girls Go Bad</title><summary type='text'>I guess the NY Times is just discovering that Halloween is the perfect time for women to let out their inner tramp.Men knew this.  Hell, we invented Halloween many years ago for no other reason than to get Celtic women out of those ill-fitting robes and into some cool outfits.Even seeing that picture makes me feel all piratey.  If she were here I'd totally make her surrender her booty.“It’s a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116138239873768758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116138239873768758' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116138239873768758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116138239873768758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/10/when-good-girls-go-bad.html' title='When Good Girls Go Bad'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116144481726117402</id><published>2006-10-19T08:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-24T09:07:13.253-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Invisibility For Dummies</title><summary type='text'>The proof of concept demonstration of a 'cloaking' device has a lot of people interested in how this technology works and what it means for the military, industry and, most likely, peeping Toms.  I am here to help.First, there are a few concepts.  These are always the most difficult things to get people to agree on but if I don't make this simple enough that at least some wiseacre tells me I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116144481726117402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116144481726117402' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116144481726117402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116144481726117402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/10/invisibility-for-dummies.html' title='Invisibility For Dummies'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116101270779148030</id><published>2006-10-16T08:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-16T15:38:49.563-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Science Wants To Give You Better Orgasms</title><summary type='text'>There was a time when the vagina was not in vogue.  It was all 'clitoris' this and 'clitoris' that for female orgasms.  Scientists have a healthy distrust of politicians and activists so we were afraid to stand up against the clitoral orthodoxy but in a secret enclave ( known as "New Jersey" ) a group of neuroscientists have been reverse engineering the female orgasm for the last two and a half </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116101270779148030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116101270779148030' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116101270779148030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116101270779148030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/10/science-wants-to-give-you-better.html' title='Science Wants To Give You Better Orgasms'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116068099427195919</id><published>2006-10-12T12:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-20T15:53:23.226-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Science Shows You How To Determine If Your Girlfriend Is A Tramp</title><summary type='text'>Trust is an important element in any relationship. How do you establish trust?  Naturally, you have her followed and break into her email.But what if the paranoid wench drives like Steve McQueen and doesn't use her cat's name as her password?  What then?  Science would rather light a candle than curse your darkness so I have devised a handy Tramp Calibration Meter.  All you have to do is feed in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116068099427195919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116068099427195919' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116068099427195919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116068099427195919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/10/science-shows-you-how-to-determine-if.html' title='Science Shows You How To Determine If Your Girlfriend Is A Tramp'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-116014819484932120</id><published>2006-10-06T08:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-19T13:28:48.106-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Science Helps You Plan Your Weekend</title><summary type='text'>Here Are Your Options:1. Die In A Cocaine-Fueled Orgy Of GaynessJust hang out with German nobility.  A gay guy in Germany jumping from a balcony while hopped up on drugs during an orgy barely made the news in the U.S., because it is so unsurprising.  Cocaine and gay orgies in a party thrown by a German Count?  Next we'll hear they pissed on each other.  Yeah.  Big shock.2. Work For World PeaceUse</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/116014819484932120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=116014819484932120' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116014819484932120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/116014819484932120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/10/science-helps-you-plan-your-weekend.html' title='Science Helps You Plan Your Weekend'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115999487350153778</id><published>2006-10-04T13:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-09T19:14:13.026-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Science Advice For Wednesday</title><summary type='text'>Making Yourself More Appealling To The Opposite SexMs. Magazine is publishing a "We Had Abortions" petition.  I guess it's supposed to be some stand for female empowerment - you know, since after only 35 million abortions Ms. Magazine still thinks they're illegal.  They should just save scientists some time and call it the "We Like To Screw And Won't Hold You Hostage If The Condom Breaks" list.  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115999487350153778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115999487350153778' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115999487350153778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115999487350153778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/10/science-advice-for-wednesday.html' title='Science Advice For Wednesday'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115950915094715814</id><published>2006-09-28T22:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-28T23:12:44.203-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Scientists Bring Peace To The Mid-East</title><summary type='text'>FADE IN: INT. A CORPORATE OFFICE, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA. DAYTIME. Cash pops an "Our Blend" Keurig pod into his coffee maker and prepares for another day of making the world safe for technology, one supermodel at a time.  His desk has a Curta mechanical calculator and a Bruce Wayne action figure.  NOT Batman.  Bruce Wayne.  The Science Phone rings.CASH: Mushi mushi. VOICE (WITH A MIDDLE EASTERN </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115950915094715814/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115950915094715814' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115950915094715814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115950915094715814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/scientists-bring-peace-to-mid-east.html' title='Scientists Bring Peace To The Mid-East'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115929082444606412</id><published>2006-09-26T10:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-26T17:32:28.723-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Phi, The Ultimate Supermodel</title><summary type='text'>"What is a supermodel?"  People sometimes ask me.  It has a few definitions and sometimes people argue over them, much the way Heidi Klum and Elle MacPherson fight over who is called "The Body." *If you're reading this site, you know that a supermodel is an aspect of complexity science that incorporates multiple variables to try and spit out the best solution.  Ha Ha Ha.Okay, supermodels can also</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115929082444606412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115929082444606412' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115929082444606412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115929082444606412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/phi-ultimate-supermodel.html' title='Phi, The Ultimate Supermodel'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115885613577397309</id><published>2006-09-21T07:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-22T20:14:46.626-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Show Your Favorite Stripper Some Love</title><summary type='text'>Give her a big hand.Next time you are busted for using cocaine, use Janet Jackson's favorite excuse:  "He gave me some liquidy stuff and it helped me so much ... it was in a vial. But after I used it I totally gave it back."She means the vial, not the cocaine.  I would make jokes about Janet Jackson's intelligence but I have made references to 'retarded cats' twice already today.We all know she </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115885613577397309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115885613577397309' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115885613577397309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115885613577397309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/show-your-favorite-stripper-some-love.html' title='Show Your Favorite Stripper Some Love'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115860778702681132</id><published>2006-09-20T07:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-22T20:19:39.423-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Golden Fiddle Makes The Honorary Scientists List</title><summary type='text'>FADE IN: INT. A BEACH HOUSE BATHROOM, MALIBU, CALIFORNIA. NIGHT Matthew Mcconaughey and Lance Armstrong shower, shave, wax, pluck, gel, and dress together before for a big night at Sky Bar in Los Angeles. LANCE: Hey, Matt. MATT: What can I do you for, LA?LANCE: You gonna wear the linen shirt tonight?MATT: That’s right.LANCE: Yeah, me too. Hey, Matt.MATT: What now, amigo?LANCE: How many buttons </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115860778702681132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115860778702681132' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115860778702681132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115860778702681132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/golden-fiddle-makes-honorary.html' title='Golden Fiddle Makes The Honorary Scientists List'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115860729510247505</id><published>2006-09-19T07:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T18:47:00.293-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Today Is International "Talk Like A Pirate Day"</title><summary type='text'>So, you know, surrender your booty.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115860729510247505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115860729510247505' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115860729510247505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115860729510247505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/today-is-international-talk-like.html' title='Today Is International &quot;Talk Like A Pirate Day&quot;'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115859246151794259</id><published>2006-09-18T07:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T23:38:08.976-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Science Proves Women Are In League With Lucifer</title><summary type='text'>I've always suspected that women, armed with the awesome power of vaginas, which only they possess, were hell-bent on taking over the world.  It seems some women have decided to accelerate the process by joining with Lucifer.So I called Harold Iggleton, a leading expert in the occult and author of the definitive work Satan's Supermodels: The Untold Story of Devil-Worship in the Fashion Industry. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115859246151794259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115859246151794259' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115859246151794259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115859246151794259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/science-proves-women-are-in-league.html' title='Science Proves Women Are In League With Lucifer'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115816252964934078</id><published>2006-09-15T07:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T08:29:28.886-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Top 10 Mysteries Of Science Part I</title><summary type='text'>10. Benjamin Underwood can't see for squat but he gets around by making clicking noises and using echolocation to visualize the obstacles his radar sends back.  Unless he was hit by a truck full of radioactive material and now wears red tights and carries a billy club, science has no explanation for this:Want to impress me, Ben?  Read this blog.9. Telephone telepathy.  How is it that sometimes </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115816252964934078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115816252964934078' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115816252964934078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115816252964934078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/top-10-mysteries-of-science-part-i.html' title='The Top 10 Mysteries Of Science Part I'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115817388150002861</id><published>2006-09-14T07:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-16T11:35:39.993-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Top 10 Mysteries Of Science Part II</title><summary type='text'>5.  There's some confusion about Evolution.  Americans are skeptics by nature.  A study shows America is just above Turkey in percentage of people who don't believe we magically evolved from cement-like goop.  Evolution theorists don't do themselves any favors by trying to convince people biology doesn't require proof - which sounds a lot like religion to non-biologists - and changing their </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115817388150002861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115817388150002861' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115817388150002861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115817388150002861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/top-10-mysteries-of-science-part-ii.html' title='The Top 10 Mysteries Of Science Part II'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115807579778137203</id><published>2006-09-12T08:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-13T14:07:02.976-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Your Jedi Mind-Trick Moment For September 12th</title><summary type='text'>Michael Witig and his wife were out barbecuing when they saw something streaking through the sky. They turned on their camera and filmed it as fire and smoke billowed behind the mystery object.Not to worry, said the FAA.  It was a just a jet that was leaving a contrail behind it and the sun was at just the right angle to reflect off the jet and create the illusion of smoke and fire.Of course it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115807579778137203/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115807579778137203' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115807579778137203'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115807579778137203'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/your-jedi-mind-trick-moment-for.html' title='Your Jedi Mind-Trick Moment For September 12th'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115773273350562660</id><published>2006-09-08T07:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-09T19:55:05.660-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hunting Scientists In China</title><summary type='text'>If there's one thing Chinese men hate it's when much larger lao wài come to their country and start defiling their women.  Trust me on this one. And the only way to make it worse is to write a blog about it and discuss your conquests.  Yet that's exactly what one fellow, code-named "Chinabounder", did on his Sex And Shanghai Blog.He doesn't just talk about nailing Chinese women.  That would be </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115773273350562660/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115773273350562660' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115773273350562660'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115773273350562660'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/hunting-scientists-in-china.html' title='Hunting Scientists In China'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115764336763474067</id><published>2006-09-07T08:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T05:32:51.926-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Remastered "Star Trek" - Set Phasers For Fun</title><summary type='text'>I know The Next Generation had its day in the sun but anyone - and I will brook no argument on this matter - who contends that the original is not the greatest sci-fi series of all time instantly loses their nerd cred around here.So if you are a TNG nerd - no, wait, if you can name more than three characters on any one of the later spin-offs - here is your chance for redemption.  Episodes of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115764336763474067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115764336763474067' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115764336763474067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115764336763474067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/remastered-star-trek-set-phasers-for.html' title='Remastered &quot;Star Trek&quot; - Set Phasers For Fun'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115752585851566548</id><published>2006-09-06T07:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T01:04:12.043-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Have $25,000 burning a hole in your pocket?</title><summary type='text'>Science shows you how to spend it.Wait, you already guessed.  Yes, I recommend you invest in a bronze casting of Suri Cruise's bowel movement.There was a time when I didn't respect Tom Cruise very much, but that was mostly because I thought he had to grab Katie Holmes by the hair because he was incapable of sticking his hand up her ass, like you do with a normal puppet:I have changed my mind.  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115752585851566548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115752585851566548' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115752585851566548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115752585851566548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/have-25000-burning-hole-in-your-pocket.html' title='Have $25,000 burning a hole in your pocket?'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115752529275778331</id><published>2006-09-06T06:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-05T23:48:12.760-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Evil Veterinarians Retaliate Against Snitch Cat</title><summary type='text'>Fred, the Undercover Kitten who gained fame by posing as a would-be patient to help police nab a phony veterinarian in New York, has died, authorities said recently.Fred had been a stray before he rocketed to fame by helping to implicate some immigrant doing unlicensed veterinary work. An undercover investigator posing as Fred's owner summoned Steven Vassall, 28, to an apartment rigged with a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115752529275778331/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115752529275778331' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115752529275778331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115752529275778331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/evil-veterinarians-retaliate-against.html' title='Evil Veterinarians Retaliate Against Snitch Cat'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115743369331763500</id><published>2006-09-04T22:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T18:14:51.416-07:00</updated><title type='text'>This Is Supposed To Be A Bad Thing?</title><summary type='text'>I think 85% of men wish this was an infectious disease that would spread to all women ... and we'd have a whole planet full of hot, rich girls who can't talk.  And not much competition from Nick Lachey types, because the only kinky thing they could think to do with her was wear her shoes.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115743369331763500/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115743369331763500' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115743369331763500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115743369331763500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/this-is-supposed-to-be-bad-thing.html' title='This Is Supposed To Be A Bad Thing?'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115712490298263169</id><published>2006-09-01T07:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-05T14:04:53.986-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Science Detemines The Discovery Channel Is Bad For Your Relationships</title><summary type='text'>Nothing brings a couple together like science programming ... you'd think.  Not necessarily, my friends.  Sure, it sounds like gold.  What healthy, educated couple wouldn't want to enjoy scientific programming together, right?The scientific programming I am talking about is the 100 Greatest Discoveries that originally aired on the Discovery Channel ... or the Science Channel ... I am not sure but</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115712490298263169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115712490298263169' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115712490298263169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115712490298263169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/09/science-detemines-discovery-channel-is.html' title='Science Detemines The Discovery Channel Is Bad For Your Relationships'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115698733638496300</id><published>2006-08-30T18:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-05T17:07:08.833-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Science Gets You More Sex - Again</title><summary type='text'>It looked like a close one for the credibility of science this past week.  First, we had the International Astronomical Union acting like a bunch of retarded cats and adding 3 new planets but then demoting poor Pluto.  This made scientists sad but we persevered by heading to the local pharmacy, because Cheez-Doodles are on sale there.  While there, a group of girls approached.  "You look like a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115698733638496300/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115698733638496300' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115698733638496300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115698733638496300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/science-gets-you-more-sex-again.html' title='Science Gets You More Sex - Again'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115680799863556717</id><published>2006-08-28T18:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-29T19:13:31.836-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How Mathematicians Started World War 3</title><summary type='text'>Russians, Americans and Chi-Coms all squared off against each other.  Organized deception, intrigue, insults, reclusive personalities ... another day in international politics?  Not this time. It's mathematicians.  You think scientists are strange?  Try to figure out mathematicians some time.It starts with a bit of mathematical fluff called the Poincaré conjecture, encompasses certifiable </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115680799863556717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115680799863556717' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115680799863556717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115680799863556717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-mathematicians-started-world-war-3.html' title='How Mathematicians Started World War 3'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115653321008683178</id><published>2006-08-25T12:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-28T15:35:38.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Can't Get A Date?  Science Has The Answer</title><summary type='text'>Want to know the best result of a vigorous debate about evolution?  It's now okay to talk about how people are different without getting into all of that touchy-feely "you're special too" hoopie.  Let's take mathematicians, for example.  They have always been toilet monkeys for scientists but in public we had to be nice to them and nod our heads at what they said even though we could do </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115653321008683178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115653321008683178' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115653321008683178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115653321008683178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/cant-get-date-science-has-answer.html' title='Can&apos;t Get A Date?  Science Has The Answer'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115657262919132383</id><published>2006-08-25T09:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-12T14:09:37.516-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Showing Science Some Love</title><summary type='text'>Useless Men Show the love.And that's it for science love this week.  What's up with that people, are scientists not funny?  Not enough hot chick pictures?  Do we need to show skin ... ummm ... again?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115657262919132383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115657262919132383' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115657262919132383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115657262919132383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/showing-science-some-love.html' title='Showing Science Some Love'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115636333724337551</id><published>2006-08-23T12:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-24T21:07:54.496-07:00</updated><title type='text'>USA Scientists Extend Universal Dominance, Make Black Holes Their Bitch</title><summary type='text'>A team of scientists led by Rudy Schild at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics  have kicked other countries in the crotch by wrecking the notion of black holes everywhere. Dr. Schild's team suggest in The Astronomical Journal that a quasar they observed is powered by a dense ball of plasma called a MECO (magnetospheric eternally collapsing object)and, since black holes have no </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115636333724337551/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115636333724337551' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115636333724337551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115636333724337551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/usa-scientists-extend-universal.html' title='USA Scientists Extend Universal Dominance, Make Black Holes Their Bitch'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115626840313176536</id><published>2006-08-22T07:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-23T11:14:42.103-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Quick Scientific Hits</title><summary type='text'>Enjoying your Ipod? Why not just  chain an Asian kid to your radiator and make them work for you?Scientists will find it a lot tougher to get laid because of this website.  Hate the game, not the scientist.Your kid will never need to watch Thomas The Tank Engine again.  Why?  Because I am making a kids' series called "The Little Spaceship That Could" and it will be about Voyager 1, because it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115626840313176536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115626840313176536' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115626840313176536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115626840313176536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/quick-scientific-hits.html' title='Quick Scientific Hits'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115614033352109820</id><published>2006-08-21T06:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-08T18:19:54.016-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Teenage Scientists Have Redefined Sex In Order To Have Less Of It</title><summary type='text'>We've talked about this before.  Not only do I think kids today are smarter than we ever were, I pretty much can't wait for them to run the world.  Nothing ... and I mean nothing ... in the corporate world compares to trying to get laid as a teenager.  And not only are kids today having sex like cocaine-fueled bunnies, they are convincing researchers they're having less of it.  That, my friends, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115614033352109820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115614033352109820' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115614033352109820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115614033352109820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/teenage-scientists-have-redefined-sex.html' title='Teenage Scientists Have Redefined Sex In Order To Have Less Of It'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115601620189577123</id><published>2006-08-19T12:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-19T23:04:23.486-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Attention Supermodels</title><summary type='text'>A bunch of us scientists will be attending Snakes On A Plane this weekend so if you'll dress up as snakes we will dress up as planes and give you rides.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115601620189577123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115601620189577123' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115601620189577123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115601620189577123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/attention-supermodels.html' title='Attention Supermodels'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115588272133908602</id><published>2006-08-18T07:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-18T15:26:00.503-07:00</updated><title type='text'>When Bad Science Hurts Good Women</title><summary type='text'>Nothing drives me crazier than bad science which gets published in big forums as reliable.  No, I don't mean the silliness they publish as science on ScienceBlogs.com. I mean actual science, only badly done, and this one published in a news service.  This German study says redheads get the most sex, not blondes.  Now, common sense tells you this isn't true because, as all scientists know, blondes</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115588272133908602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115588272133908602' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115588272133908602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115588272133908602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/when-bad-science-hurts-good-women.html' title='When Bad Science Hurts Good Women'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115575451276434201</id><published>2006-08-16T11:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-20T20:30:59.036-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Moon Landing Footage "Missing", Replaced With Episode Of Futurama*</title><summary type='text'>Almost any kid today can spot bad CGI a mile away.  Have a kid watch Raiders Of The Lost Ark, for example and, when that fighter plane crashes into the tunnel, kids will start giggling because it looks so fake to them.How is this possible?  Eyes are trained by experience like anything else and special effects are a lot better today.   This is why NASA now has to pretend they lost the footage from</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115575451276434201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115575451276434201' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115575451276434201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115575451276434201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/moon-landing-footage-missing-replaced.html' title='Moon Landing Footage &quot;Missing&quot;, Replaced With Episode Of Futurama*'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115562084142043509</id><published>2006-08-15T07:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T23:21:09.250-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Zany Scientists Make World's Most Expensive Pair Of X-Ray Glasses</title><summary type='text'>Nothing says funny like X-Ray glasses.  And scientists are nothing if not funny.  Take those fun-loving guys at Stanford University's Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Menlo Park, California.  They know that Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois will be shut down by 2010 and that Austrians are determined to have the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operating in Geneva by 2007.  That </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115562084142043509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115562084142043509' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115562084142043509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115562084142043509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/zany-scientists-make-worlds-most.html' title='Zany Scientists Make World&apos;s Most Expensive Pair Of X-Ray Glasses'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115552729242835799</id><published>2006-08-14T06:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T23:21:34.296-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Scientists Reverse Evolution, Reconstruct Ancient Gene</title><summary type='text'>Oh, they didn't mean Gene Simmons.  Instead they mean they have reconstructed a 530-million-year-old DNA strand by piecing together key portions of two modern genes descended from it.Well, maybe reconstructing Gene Simmons is next.  I have been hoping to return to those days when Kabuki masks, shaved legs, and platform heels were COOL on men.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115552729242835799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115552729242835799' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115552729242835799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115552729242835799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/scientists-reverse-evolution.html' title='Scientists Reverse Evolution, Reconstruct Ancient Gene'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115551739962886029</id><published>2006-08-13T18:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-18T07:20:25.966-07:00</updated><title type='text'>From Wondermark</title><summary type='text'>Wondermark</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115551739962886029/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115551739962886029' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115551739962886029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115551739962886029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/from-wondermark.html' title='From Wondermark'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115543937061387455</id><published>2006-08-12T20:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-12T20:22:50.646-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Important Dating News For Our Young Male ScientistsWorldNetDaily is outraged at the modern culture of promiscuity that is exemplified by the number of female teachers seducing their young male science students.Yes, the cockblockers in some newspaper are trying to make it harder for you to get laid.  As if getting laid in high school isn't already difficult enough they want to take teachers out of</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115543937061387455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115543937061387455' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115543937061387455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115543937061387455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/important-dating-news-for-our-young.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115531273763841238</id><published>2006-08-11T08:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-11T20:23:42.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Parting The Red Sea - Science Explains That ( And The Rest Of The Bible Too )James Cameron, who wanted us to suspend disbelief long enough to buy into robots from the future and aliens in our oceans, is worried people might actually have belief in something he didn't create through the magic of film; specifically that the Old Testament God ( not the 'be nice to each other' New Testament one ) was</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115531273763841238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115531273763841238' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115531273763841238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115531273763841238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/parting-red-sea-science-explains-that.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115533711742939072</id><published>2006-08-11T06:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-11T20:24:28.083-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Britney Spears = HOT</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115533711742939072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115533711742939072' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115533711742939072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115533711742939072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/britney-spears-hot.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115524311330074021</id><published>2006-08-10T12:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T13:54:45.136-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Women Cheat Us Again - This Time By Using EvolutionIt's no secret what makes the world go round; it's not money or politics or governments.  It's vaginas.  Sure, we can pretend that men run things and women can pretend that men run things by griping about a glass ceiling or whatever, but scientists know the truth.And it's not enough that women have all the advantages in life - never having to hit</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115524311330074021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115524311330074021' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115524311330074021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115524311330074021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/women-cheat-us-again-this-time-by.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115516607892789885</id><published>2006-08-09T16:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-09T19:33:19.930-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>James Van AllenR.I.P.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115516607892789885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115516607892789885' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115516607892789885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115516607892789885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/james-van-allen-r.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115510522347369205</id><published>2006-08-09T07:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-09T08:22:10.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>What Is The Anagram of ... Solomon Hercules Atlas Zeus Achilles Mercury?That's right.  It spells S-C-I-E-N-T-I-S-T, baby.  Sure, you are used to  me being a science guru and, on occasion, a Formula One race car driver who solves mysteries on TV, but unless you are a long-time reader you are probably not aware I am also a superhero.  I discovered I was a superhero this one time when a guy cut me </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115510522347369205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115510522347369205' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115510522347369205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115510522347369205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/what-is-anagram-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115474987372811340</id><published>2006-08-08T06:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T22:13:32.720-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Making Scientific Sense Of The NewsThis study says obesity harms more women than men while this study says  hungry men like fat women.Do I need to spell that out for you?  No, it isn't that hungry men like to eat fat women, it's that hungry men know fat women have food in the house.  Claire Forlani, on the other hand, isn't worried about being too thin or not having a man, she lays awake at night</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115474987372811340/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115474987372811340' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115474987372811340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115474987372811340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/making-scientific-sense-of-news-this.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115492959952612275</id><published>2006-08-07T06:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-06T22:46:39.546-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Science Of Freak MagnetsKnow what I love most about science?  We have been using magnets for years in all kinds of applications, even multi-billion dollar industries like semiconductor and microprocessing, but no one knows what a magnetic field is.If you ask a physicist (ahem - a different physicist ) you'll get answers like "a magnetic field is a region in space where a magnetic force can be</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115492959952612275/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115492959952612275' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115492959952612275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115492959952612275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/science-of-freak-magnets-know-what-i.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115483865633312383</id><published>2006-08-05T21:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T12:08:47.350-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Science Offers To Explain To Paris Hilton What Celibate MeansI am not just being flippant - either she truly doesn't know what it means or she found a journalist as dumb as she is.  I guess there's even money on that one."I'm not having sex for a year. ... I'll kiss, but nothing else," says Hilton who, when not being confused about the difference between celibate and chaste also stated to the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115483865633312383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115483865633312383' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115483865633312383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115483865633312383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/science-offers-to-explain-to-paris.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115462711559221907</id><published>2006-08-04T07:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T00:41:02.560-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Science Determines Scientists Are Smarter Than YouThe August issue of Scientific American tries to figure out why some people are better at things than other people.  This, they contend, will help us teach better.  I don't know why they bothered.  I can answer that question in four words:  I am smarter than you.*  Now, that isn't a value judgment, it's just the way it is.  We all went to school (</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115462711559221907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115462711559221907' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115462711559221907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115462711559221907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/science-determines-scientists-are.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115463142949860983</id><published>2006-08-03T07:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T00:15:42.196-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear BlogExplosion;</title><summary type='text'>Thank you for taking the time to look at my website.  After repeated spam emails from you, I finally signed up for your service* and I am thrilled that you spent 7 seconds at my website.  I couldn't be more proud than to be in the same elite company as blogs like "Hiring A Nanny" or "Nanny In New York" or "Ramesh Thiruchelvam's 100 Words."  However, I am confused by your email denying me entry </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115463142949860983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115463142949860983' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115463142949860983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115463142949860983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/dear-blogexplosion.html' title='Dear BlogExplosion;'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115421307140647248</id><published>2006-08-02T08:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T12:50:35.016-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Turns Out The Aryan Brotherhood Are Scientists TooWhen people think of scientists, they don't often picture neo-Nazis or whatever exactly the Aryan brotherhood is today.  Because neo-Nazis are often bald and moody and disdainful of people they feel are inferior ... Uh oh.  Well, not all scientists are bald. Never mind that for now.   We're usually not inclined to make the Aryan brotherhood </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115421307140647248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115421307140647248' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115421307140647248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115421307140647248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/turns-out-aryan-brotherhood-are.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115449437412140134</id><published>2006-08-01T21:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-18T07:21:23.846-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Science Endorsement: Final Fu</title><summary type='text'>Don't get me wrong, the show is complete crap, even if it does have young Ernie Reyes.  They don't even use AAU rules, which would be bad enough ... they have more like pussified AAU rules, which is like being the shortest guy in a family of midgets.  I never liked AAU tournaments because you couldn't punch to the face.  They were okay with you doing a hook kick and spinning someone's head around</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115449437412140134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115449437412140134' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115449437412140134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115449437412140134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/science-endorsement-final-fu.html' title='The Science Endorsement: Final Fu'/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115412279003569195</id><published>2006-08-01T07:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T12:52:09.176-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Science Is Not A Business For The SqueamishOr for the sensitive.  To wit, I still haven't cracked the top 50 science blogs but I think it's mostly because I don't shriek about evolution or global warming.  There are blogs on that list that haven't been updated since April so how many people link to you can be misleading. Science ... real science,not academia, where people have lots of time to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115412279003569195/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115412279003569195' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115412279003569195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115412279003569195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/08/science-is-not-business-for-squeamish.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115436091699473974</id><published>2006-07-31T07:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-31T09:42:27.663-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Want To Have A Beautiful Daughter?  Nail A ScientistEveryone wants a beautiful daughter.  In fact, that topic came up last week.  Someone asked me how things had changed since I hit the big 4-0 and I said, "I'm going to meet someone my own age, and she's going to be smart and beautiful - and I'm going to date her daughter."How do I meet Alessandra Ambrosio's mother anyway?It's important that I </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115436091699473974/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115436091699473974' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115436091699473974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115436091699473974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/want-to-have-beautiful-daughter-nail.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115419617269946121</id><published>2006-07-29T09:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T22:15:43.946-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Scientific Fun For The WeekendSaturday morning.  Make an air gun that shoots tampons.  Some PVC, a few tampon vending tubes and a whole mess of tampons.  Conveniently, I keep all that around the house for emergencies.Later Saturday morning.  Shoot brother with tampon gun.  Let's face it, men don't even like going to the store to buy tampons.  He's really going to hate being shot with them.  Maybe</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115419617269946121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115419617269946121' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115419617269946121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115419617269946121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/scientific-fun-for-weekend-saturday.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115385718628967772</id><published>2006-07-27T12:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-18T07:22:27.073-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Some Scientific Equations Can't Be Solved, Like This One:  W*0^M = NAnd Π (Pi) or Maxwell's Equations.  Everyone knows Π already, it's the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle (22/7) and goes on forever.  Then there's Maxwell's Equations;  Maxwell grasped the connection between magnetism and electricity and how they create each other.  But, like Π, they can never be solved.  If </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115385718628967772/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115385718628967772' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115385718628967772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115385718628967772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/some-scientific-equations-cant-be.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115394205521521977</id><published>2006-07-27T11:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-27T20:03:07.316-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Save UseMyComputer.com</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115394205521521977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115394205521521977' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115394205521521977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115394205521521977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/save-usemycomputer.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115345992796956132</id><published>2006-07-25T07:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-18T07:24:32.983-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Everything I Need To Know About Business I Learned From Weird ScienceSometimes it's believed that business, or science ( or the business of science), takes a lot of education.  I am here to tell you, my friends, the only education you need can be found in one easy location, it only takes 94 minutes of your time, and I am giving this secret to you for free:  it's the Weird Science DVD.  Sure, on </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115345992796956132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115345992796956132' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115345992796956132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115345992796956132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/everything-i-need-to-know-about.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115328019869766749</id><published>2006-07-23T07:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T10:18:38.493-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Know What What Makes Scientists Happy?I mean really, really happy.  This kind of happy:Well, I'll tell you.  Nothing makes scientists happier than when celebrity marriages go kerplooey, accusations start flying, and families - being familial - say a bunch of things they would never, ever, ever believe if they read them on my blog.  Let's take this whole Christie Brinkley thing that happened </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115328019869766749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115328019869766749' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115328019869766749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115328019869766749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/know-what-what-makes-scientists-happy.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115340698410453929</id><published>2006-07-20T07:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-24T12:06:04.750-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Jessica Biel Is A Cheap DateAnd officially a good sport.  And she raised $30,000 for a charity auction by donating a lunch date.  A local guy named John paid $30,000 for the opportunity to hit on Biel, who was rightfully ESQUIRE's 'sexiest woman alive' last year.  Said Biel in a taped message, "I promise, I'm a cheap date."  Nope.  Biel just went up in stature, I am thinking.I bought a date with </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115340698410453929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115340698410453929' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115340698410453929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115340698410453929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/jessica-biel-is-cheap-date-and.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-113391736750268013</id><published>2006-07-20T06:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-21T00:26:01.513-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Ever Want To Lick Wonder Woman?Yeah, me neither.  She's a brunette, after all.  Luckily the USPS has a blonde girl on their 2006 postage stamps also. No word yet on when the Jaime Pressly stamp is coming out. But I am betting it is real soon.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/113391736750268013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=113391736750268013' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/113391736750268013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/113391736750268013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/ever-want-to-lick-wonder-woman-yeah-me.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115326234852639289</id><published>2006-07-19T06:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-19T21:02:34.416-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Colorado Woman Mixes Science, MetaphorsNothing says relaxation and down-home cooking like the smell of crackling electricity through chicken corpses and Liborio Markets, a Latino-based grocery store moving into the region, aims to please.  To make sure you get the freshest chicken nuggets possible, they intend to kill about 150 chickens a day by coursing wholesome electrical currents through the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115326234852639289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115326234852639289' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115326234852639289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115326234852639289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/colorado-woman-mixes-science-metaphors.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115290747399636125</id><published>2006-07-18T07:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T12:56:06.976-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Science Saves Lives - And That's Always FunnySo science isn't all bad.  Sure, we invented guns, which accidentally kill 1,500 Americans a year, but we also invented cars, which accidentally kill 43,000 Americans per ... oh, wait, maybe that isn't a good example.  Here's a better one.  We found a CURE FOR CANCER!  Well, we didn't, but  Dr. Miracles did.  Like most good men of science he has a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115290747399636125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115290747399636125' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115290747399636125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115290747399636125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/science-saves-lives-and-thats-always.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115314914339538497</id><published>2006-07-17T12:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-17T23:30:19.580-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The President Finally Speaks A Language Scientists Can UnderstandPeople, I wrote a whole book on politics so I can tell you it's darn refreshing when politicans come right out and say what they mean.  Nothing drives scientists battier than talk about stern letters or vague sanctions from bureaucrats because most scientists are more in the Bismarck school of thought; "blood and iron" and all that </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115314914339538497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115314914339538497' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115314914339538497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115314914339538497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/president-finally-speaks-language.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115305156357920048</id><published>2006-07-17T06:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T12:56:41.200-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The French Assert Their World Dominance By Endorsing Their Own SeafoodWant to make sure people take you seriously?  Slap "moules de bouchot de la baie de Mont Saint Michel AOC" on any mussel not musselled in Mont St Michel bay.  You can imagine what kind of thunderclap this was to the rest of the mussel industry.  "I have great mussels, so why should I be penalized while they get the government </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115305156357920048/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115305156357920048' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115305156357920048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115305156357920048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/french-assert-their-world-dominance-by.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115305604719098060</id><published>2006-07-16T06:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-11T14:42:15.550-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Avril Lavigne Gets Her Starter Marriage Out Of The WayAs long time readers know, the countdown to Avril Lavigne turning 30 started a while ago.  Scientists have been waiting for her to get to an age where she might have a reasonable maturity level and the kind of rapier wit necessary to stay in a long-term relationship with men much smarter than she is.So we welcome the news that she has married </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115305604719098060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115305604719098060' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115305604719098060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115305604719098060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/avril-lavigne-gets-her-starter.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115298939967786983</id><published>2006-07-15T06:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-17T07:22:03.153-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Madonna Wants Her Kids To Join The Cult Of SantaMadonna doesn't feel like she can support Kabbalah any more.  Now, if there's one thing scientists understand, it's anxiety about losing one's religion, especially after guys like Bruno and Galileo lost their religion and then their lives.  Well, not just scientists.  Michael Stipe says he understands too, unless he just likes dancing around like an</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115298939967786983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115298939967786983' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115298939967786983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115298939967786983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/madonna-wants-her-kids-to-join-cult-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115289270432981268</id><published>2006-07-14T08:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T23:37:05.350-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Science Shows You How To Get Twice As Much PussyHeisenberg ( get your sour grapes shirt here) once postulated that a cat could be alive and dead at the same time.  What he didn't foresee was that one day a cat would be born that could be both normal and a mutated aberration at the same time:And yet there it is, another scientific miracle, normal except for the freakish two-headed aspect.  Some of</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115289270432981268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115289270432981268' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115289270432981268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115289270432981268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/science-shows-you-how-to-get-twice-as.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444522.post-115281713608006550</id><published>2006-07-13T11:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-14T10:37:17.600-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Angelina Jolie Is A Black Widow SpiderYou think it's coincidence that the movie she chooses to make with Brad Pitt after apparently giving birth to Jesus is a biopic on slain journalist Daniel Pearl?Yeah, I don't think so either.  So now that he has given forth his DNA she will take the opportunity to 'accidentally' cut off his head and eat him during the movie shoot.  He should have seen it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/feeds/115281713608006550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3444522&amp;postID=115281713608006550' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115281713608006550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3444522/posts/default/115281713608006550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://funnierthanyouare.blogspot.com/2006/07/angelina-jolie-is-black-widow-spider.html' title=''/><author><name>Chief Scientist</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5742/ionstorm1a1cu5.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
