I’ve always thought of myself as more left than right brained, but according to this, I’m definitely right brained (assuming that “clockwise” means the direction when viewed from above). I can’t see it going the other way. Which makes me question the validity of the test.
[Update at 10 AM EDT]
Funny, I just went back and looked at it again, and this time it was spinning the other way, but then it stopped, and reversed direction and went clockwise again. Weird.
One of the things that I hate about living in Florida is the fact that it’s the Sunshine State. I actually am not a big fan of ol’ Sol, and would probably be happier in Seattle. Accordingly, one of the few things that I like about Florida in the summer (and late fall) are thunderstorms and frequent showers. Unlike many here, who apparently watch the Doppler radar with trepidation, over fears of a missed golf game, or boat outing, I watch it with hope. Hope that is often dashed, because often, one will see a huge storm heading one’s way, only to watch it fizzle out as it approaches.
This happened all afternoon yesterday, in which I could see a vast amount of heavy rainfall over the Bahamas, but as it approached the Palm Beach County coast, the reds would turn to yellows would turn to greens, and then entirely disappear, all the while it continue to storm fifty miles off shore. It’s doing exactly the same thing today. I’ve never heard anyone on the local weather discuss this phenomenon. Is there something about the difference between the land (even as low as the land is here) and the sea that dries out the air as the storm approaches? I’m guessing that it’s being fueled by the humid ocean waters below, but I still don’t understand why it dies before it even gets here, when it’s still ten or twenty miles from the coast.
[Update at 1 PM]
It’s continuing to threaten us ineffectually, though a few showers are starting to pop up along the coast. Patricia suggested that we go for a walk. “Maybe it will make it rain,” she joked.
You guessed it. Just after we turned around and started to head back home, it started to sprinkle. Then it started to come down harder.
“You know,” I said, as we walked/trotted, dripping, “it will quit just as soon as we get back to the house.”
And that’s exactly what it did.
Ancient man walked, but struggled to run.
The studies show that “whilst these very early fossils could walk well, our initial findings suggest that efficient running came about quite a bit later in the fossil record,” he said, adding “we have only just started to look at running and so there are still plenty of questions to answer.”
Funny, I wouldn’t think that a fossil could walk at all…
“The next really interesting question is to look in more detail at running. It has been suggested that our ability to run for long distances took a lot longer to evolve than our ability to walk. Our techniques should let us get to the bottom of this question because it will let us measure the running abilities of our fossil ancestors directly.”
“What we need to discover now is when in our evolution did we develop an Achilles tendon as knowing this will help unravel the mystery of our origins.”
Well, at least I do have an Achilles tendon.
It wasn’t the cell phone theory–it seems to have been a virus. I never bought that one, anyway.
Though it would be a good deal for a bee. I mean, a twelve-month plan is like a lifetime.
Want to take a ride through a Cat 5 hurricane? Here you go.
This is kind of cool news from my current neck of the woods. A black Florida panther. Except it’s not–it’s a bobcat. Is it a species, or a mutation? One suspects the latter or there’d be a lot more of them.
A potential problem with special relativity? I do think that people are too quick to say “never” to things like FTL travel. There’s still a lot we don’t understand about the universe. Probably much more than we do, in fact.
The first Europeans came from Asia (actually Russia), not directly from Africa.
The first Europeans came from Asia (actually Russia), not directly from Africa.
The first Europeans came from Asia (actually Russia), not directly from Africa.