Archive for July, 2008
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Bring Nuclear Energy Back to its Atomic Roots
BOOM! We’ve all seen it. Dreamt it. Imagined it. Feared it even. The kind of nuclear holocaust that kept Sarah Conor up at night. Being raised in the fallout of the Cold War, we grew up with Orwellian conditioning riddled with visions of mushroom clouds and nuclear destruction. Mutual annihilation was what we were assured, [...]
23 Comments » - Posted in Energy, Society, Technology by Greg Molyneux
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
It Appears You Have Some Venus In Uranus…
I recently stumbled upon a website which offers an astrological horoscope for Barack Obama.
Thats right! For a limited time you, yes you, can peer into the future and know exactly whats going to happen to Barack! Sounds exciting doesn’t it!? Well, maybe, but the only problem is that it doesn’t seem to predict anything [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Science, Science Fiction by Andrew Blanco
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Excel Pivot Table Tutorial: Wizard Usage and Basic Manipulation
Pivot Tables in Excel can be very quick and powerful data analysis tools. Pivot Tables allow the user to arrange a contiguous range of data in a variety of columns and perform multiple calculations on an aggregate level. Click here to download the Excel file used as an example in this tutorial.
Using the Pivot Table [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Babeled, Technology by Jason Morgan
Friday, July 18th, 2008
The Olympics - Elitist Nonsense, Then and Now
In ancient Greece, the Olympics was an athletic competition between city states that only free men who spoke Greek were allowed to participate in. Furthermore, athletes had to qualify, have their name in the lists and take an oath before Zeus that they had been training for 10 months or more. Also, only the most [...]
17 Comments » - Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, Exercise, History, Sports by Claire D
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Udvar-Hazy: The Smithsonian’s Newest National Air & Space Museum
The past two days I was in Washington D.C. visiting my grandmother and she said we were getting a personal guide at a museum called Udvar-Hazy (pronounced: ood-var-ha-z). I didn’t find out until later that this museum was named after aviation businessman, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, who donated $60 million of his own money to [...]
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