Wriggly Bean

Last night I finally felt my little dinosaur for the very first time. I not only felt something (an arm? a bottom? a tail?), but I felt The Bean wriggle away from me. Sure, a wriggle towards me might have been nicer, but I'm just too excited to care. Debs has been able to feel little kicks from inside (apparently our little Bean-o-saur is also an apprentice ninja), but I finally got to connect with something other than an ultasound image on a television.

Sooner or later, I'm going to come to grips with the idea of being a father.

The wackos are comin'! The wackos are comin'!

If there's one things I've learned from the Interwebnet, it's that the world is full of wackos. According to one of these wackos, John Lennon was murdered by Stephen King, as organised by Nixon and Reagan. The evidence is astoundingly unconvincing. In fact, the vast majority of his argument is that if you circle random words on a newspaper page, you can make a sentence.

Another wonderously evidence-lacking conspiracy theory states that reptilian aliens are currently controlling our society from their underground tunnels. Someone has been watching way too many reruns of V.

Don't feel bad for those wackos, though, because there are plenty of others out there to keep them company. For example, this wacko has a scientific proof that God exists as a curvature of space-time. That's right, not only does he prove that God exists, but he also proves that God is caused by gravity:

Thus, what we have discovered is that God is caused by the Einstein Curvature Tensor, and that Einstein's celebrated Field Equation is actually the mathematical equation of God. Einstein's Theory in other words, is the explicit mathematical proof of God, and the mathematical proof that God is caused by Gravity.

Today's lesson: just because someone can use a lot of big words and greek, squiggly letters, doesn't mean he's got any idea what he's talking about.

Smelly dogs

Sniffer dogs have been used to detect drugs, bombs, chemicals and track people, but the future may have dogs sniffing our butts. Research is currently underway to discover if dogs' advanced sense of smell can detect prostate cancer.

Okay, after reading a little further through the article, it does mention that the dogs are only sniffing urine samples, but I don't think that's anywhere near as funny, do you? Scientists just don't have the same sense of humour that they used to…