Finding a Girlfriend, Drake Equation Style

So let’s say that I was in the market for finding a significant other. The total candidate pool (C) would then be:
C = Pdc * F * G * A10 * S * Dn * Ra * A
Where:
C = total number of candidates
Pdc = total population of DC metro area
F = ratio of females
G = [...]

Emoto’s Emotive Water Crystals

You may have heard about Masaru Emoto before–he’s the guy who claims that emotions, when directed at water just prior to freezing, will cause the water molecules to freeze in patterns that are associated with the emotion in question. He is, as you might imagine, completely fucking retarded.
Nevertheless, because the US gov’t is also [...]

Mathematics, Science, and Philosophy

I had two take-home exams due today. I didn’t start them until after nearly 4 am this morning.
At first I was scared. I glanced at the tests, and simply didn’t know where to start. The questions seemed senseless to me, and certainly well beyond my ability.
I had five hours to finish the tests, which were [...]

Dino Hunting!

[As originally posted on the MTGN forums at "http://forums.mtgnews.com/showpost.php?p=1642424&postcount=439".]
For nearly two weeks, from June fifth to June eighteenth, I experienced a trip very unlike anything that I’d ever enountered before.
I went dinosaur hunting.
I had never before done anything truly paleontological, though when I was younger I did do a short archaeological stunt in Pensacola, FL, [...]

::sigh::

I ate in an empty cafeteria, filled with the chatter and clatter of the inane. I enjoyed the taste of the tortilla, but hated the smell of the ceiling as I ate it. The ceiling was looking down at me, forcing me to ignore it. So I read. 
I read, yet my heart was not in [...]

A Jesuit Astrophysicist?

I went to the annual Rimes Lecture last Thursday night. Their speaker this year was William R. Stoeger, SJ, an astrophysicist from the Vatican Observatory Research Group. It was the first time I’d ever heard a speech* by a physicist who is also a priest for the Catholic church. Hearing his views on things was [...]

How It All Started

Ever since I was small, I’ve wished that I could one day be a scientist. For some reason it just seemed to be the most noble of professions. At first, the science I glorified was paleontology. I enjoyed the concept that I could learn something from history by going out and actually interacting with it. [...]

Micro-Biology & Quantum Physics

Today I viewed an exhibit put on by artist Bonita Day. It was… quite unique. She used microbiology as the subject of her works, and she intermixed them with human technologies.
One of her creations takes electrical conduit and jumbles it around a grand piano in such a way that she is mimicking strands of ribonucleic [...]

Love & Physics: An Obsession

I once had a friend called Emp. He was a very intelligent man, and I honestly think he knew me better than any other person, even myself. But he was smart enough not to say what he knew to my face, and I was smart enough to realize that he wasn’t saying it.
Then I stopped [...]

Swallowing My Pride

We grew crystals in chemistry class today.
I’ve always been extremely interested in quantum physics, but chemistry is a whole different ballgame. To me, chemistry is too similar to cooking to be fun. You have to be so careful for good results in the laboratory, and I’m always so very clumsy with such things.
At least, I [...]