Dropping A Water Balloon At 3000 feet per second!

There is something about high-speed photography that always gets to me. You don’t really learn all that much from watching this film clip… but it sure is interesting and, more importantly, fun! Footscray City College Science Students use the Photron high-speed camera to shoot balloons at 3000 frames per second. I don’t know about you [...]

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Bacteria that Commit Honourable Suicide

How can any samurai, kosher or otherwise, NOT be attracted by this title? The Bacteria that Commit Honourable Suicide Bio-cell seppuku. Kamikaze microbes. Organically pre-programmed harikiri. You got to love it. OK, kids, it goes something like this… In multicellular organisms (like us) it is essential that every cell behaves and does the job it [...]

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Exhibit Two Gets Aished!

Exhibit Two Gets Aished!  (Exhibit Two at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem earlier this month) A bit of explanation is in order. Aish = Aish HaTorah. [1] Aish HaTorah is an apolitical network of Jewish educational centers in 35 branches on five continents. [2] Aish is all about Jewish education and kiruv… drawing Jews closer to [...]

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Loonies I Have Lunched With (Part 5): Creamer Eyes

You may have seen them out of the corner of your eye… at the next table or across the restaurant. Sometimes, you may have had the misfortune of seeing them up close and personal, across the table from you. No matter how you run into them or how they are inflicted upon you… the result [...]

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Dogs may have helped Humans beat the Neanderthals

Dogs may have helped Humans beat the Neanderthals One of the most compelling – and enduring – mysteries in archaeology concerns the rise of early humans and the decline of Neanderthals. For about 250,000 years, Neanderthals lived and evolved, quite successfully, in the area that is now Europe. Somewhere between 45,000 and 35,000 years ago, [...]

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One Year Anniversary!

One year ago, yesterday, May 17, 2011, I created this blog, the Kosher Samurai. One year ago, today, I published my first blog article, set out below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I prefer to spell it bl*g or bl*gging. I have some strange aversion to the way the word is usually spelled. Not sure why. I just do. [...]

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Are We Attracted To Our Opposite?

They say that opposites attract. That presumes that the attraction is mutual, I suppose. (The gun totin’ Southern Redneck Good Ole Girl) I’m not sure that is always, or even often, the case. (Hitler Youth – more my son’s type than mine, really… but still…) Take the example some of the kinds of women to whom [...]

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Total Societal Meltdown: Not as Fun as You Might Think

Do you ever get the impression that there are people out there who just can’t wait for the world to go to hell in a handcart? Whether it is a complete socio-economic meltdown, a total financial collapse, a global political conflagration or a good old-fashioned 3rd World War… do you get the feeling that there [...]

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Unhealthy Interests (Part 1): Zombies

I have been accused by more than one alleged friend of having an ‘Unhealthy Interest’ in zombies. Well, honestly. These days, who doesn’t? I mean, really. (♥ I’m a zombie girl… in a zombie world ♥) Yes, but [1]… these so-called friends are quick to point out that, unlike yours truly, most other (i.e. normal) [...]

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Gaseous Emissions from Dinosaurs May Have Warmed Prehistoric Earth

Dino Farts Contributed to Mesozoic Global Warming? That’s the thought that flitted through my mind when I saw the headline… Gaseous Emissions from Dinosaurs May Have Warmed Prehistoric Earth As a Vampyre Fangs blog article disclosed a short time ago, this staggering information comes hot on the heels of another theory implicating (albeit with the [...]

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