First Blog

Some demand respect simply because they exist. You may as well give respect to a bucket of dirt. ----------- On days like today I must give my salute to Archimedes, and not just because he was the greatest scientist of antiquity.   More importantly, it was he who first wrote about the lever, of which the greatest application is the modern corkscrew.   Cheers! ----------- Did you know the Greenland shark, the world’s largest fish, is very long lived?   One example was recently determined to be between 272 and 512 years old.   How can you do this?   It has no birth certificate or driver’s license.   It was done through carbon dating.   But carbon dating* works only on dead life forms, such as long buried bones or old dead wood.   In the ocean, when anything dies, it is consumed within days or months.   So, you can’t just find dead sharks lying about.   It turns out that within the shark’s eye, there remains some embryonic tissues.   These can be dated, and was.   Amazing. ---