The Beer Barrel

Or, A Tale of Two Pauls

Periodically the Federal Government must pass budgets for the running of the Federal Government. These budgets must pass both the House and the Senate and be signed by the President. If a budget is not passed by a certain deadline then the Federal Government must “shutdown”. Now this shutdown is only...

This scanning transmission electron microscope image shows the Wassonite grain in dark contrast.
CREDIT: NASA A meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 1969 has just divulged a modern secret: a...

http://allthingsnuclear.org/post/4406180702/how-many-cancers-did-chernobyl-really-cause

The short answer is quite a few, but absolutely impossible to detect, just like the 50s weapons fallout testing.

One interesting fact from the article is that more persons have or will contract cancer from Chernobyl, total, in the world at large,...

“If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out?”
That’s one of the more unusual interview questions facing job candidates. Job seekers in a fiercely competitive market should beware a curve ball — an odd, even bizarre, question from out of the blue during the job interview.
Glassdoor.com, a...

Scientist accidentally becomes the first person to pass insect- borne virus to someone else by sexual contact (unfortunately for his wife)

A biologist has inadvertently made history after becoming the first person to pass on an insect-borne virus to another human by sexual contact.
Researcher Brian Foy contracted the Zika virus, which...