Sleep Time
This question from Scientific American’s “Today’s Trivia”:
Q. How much sleep, on average, does an elephant get each day?
Daily Archives: October 17, 2003
The boykin Affair
Terry at Nitpicker and DhinMi at the Daily Kos provide chapter and verse on how boykin has been breaking US military law and, yes, when you are in the US military you are subject to military law.
Weed and Sperm
If you’re trying to be a daddy you might want to lay off the weed:
A study of 22 college students who were heavy marijuana users suggested their sperm moved too fast too soon and lost oomph before they could reach their destination � the egg.
“Sperm in semen are supposed to sit quietly and wait for their chance to get out of the semen,” said Dr. Lani Burkman, a researcher at the University of Buffalo. “The sperm of marijuana smokers when sitting in the semen were very, very active.”
Electonic Voting
Ken MacLeod doesn’t have a high opinion of unverifiable touchscreen voting:
Touchscreen voting with no verifiable paper trail is to real voting what McJobs are to real jobs. You don’t have votes, you have McVotes.
This is something that you wouldn’t put in a science fiction novel, unless it was a blatant knock-about satire – you know, some squib about a world where Mickey Mouse runs for Governor of Florida, or Arnold Schwartznegger for Governor of California. It’s too unbelievable. A good editor would call it a plot hole.
Children’s views of Operation Iraqi Freedom
These drawings by children were collected over a 2-month period in May and June 2003 at the request of Carl Rosenstein and the Puffin Foundation.
A description of the project is here.
Via Sugarfused.