Homely Scientist

It wouldn’t be early in the month if there wasn’t a SciHealth Theme day now would it?  January is no different.  Yeah a little later in the month than usual, but I think we can be allowed a little break.  Regardless, our theme this month is looking back at 2006 (best posts, summary, whatever).  Angela at Breastfeeding 1-2-3 is hosting this shin dig this month, lots of my fellow SciHealth bloggers already have their posts up.  Since I like to blog in the moment, and my little battle (losing) with insomnia has me up late and sleeping in a bit, my post is coming now.

I decided to pick a few of my favourite posts (it was hard, because I like a lot of them) to highlight.  The first up is the post that still holds the record for the most comments on any one post, a discussion of gravity and the centre of the Earth.  Never would have thought that a discussion of traveling through the centre of the Earth would generate such an interesting comment flow.

In the realm of just plain cool geekiness, there is the speed of light and melting chocolate chips post and the extremely cool Sony superball commercial.  Don’t know if the superball one is my absolute favs, but I should watch it more often to just mellow out—it’s just that cool.

Finally in the realm of geekiness, science, and hot chicks (three things that are too often lacking in science news), is my final word on Mentos—Diet Coke geysers.  Why?  Because they are cool, messy, and completely safe for the kids to do (and more fun than watching bananas turn yellow).  Oh and because I get to put the picture of Keri Byron back up for old times sake.

There you have it.  2006 on Homely Scientist.  Good old geeky science fun.

Oh and if you’ve been wondering why there have been so few posts this week, I’ve been covering CES for PodTech this week on the PodTech Blog.  No, I wasn’t at CES, but I was giving everyone a bird’s eye view of what was going on.

Tags: Homely Scientist, Keri Byron, Coke geyers, 2006 review, SciHealth Theme Day

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