Tag: science
27 Posts


Feb 02, 2016
Brilliant or Bogus: Warren's CO2 Idea

Jun 01, 2010
Today: Tom and Ray ponder the now-famed "hummingbird" conundrum.
In a recent column, you got the wrong answer to the "hummingbird" problem. Fifty years ago, my boss in an Air Force research laboratory used this problem to trick those who wanted to upgrade their "subprofessional" status to "professional." He...

May 01, 2010
How do you get 20 pounds of carbon dioxide from a gallon of gas?
I've heard that each gallon of gas burned by a car releases about 20 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere. I'm not a chemist, but even allowing for some creative reactions and recombinations going on, how does combusting about six and...

Feb 21, 2010
This is your brain on a cell-phone...
What's happening to your brain that makes cell phones create all that havoc on the roadway?

Feb 20, 2010
A simple way to study driver distraction
Is distracted driving a problem in your community? This blog describes a simple way to study driver distraction.

Oct 01, 2009
In today's column: is antifreeze toxic to humans?
You mentioned in a recent column that ethylene glycol (antifreeze) is toxic to animals. Is it also toxic to humans? I'm a doctor, and I prescribe a medicine for my patients that cleans out their colon called Go-Lytely (which makes...

May 01, 2009
Today: Tom and Ray settle a confounding physics conundrum.
Once, on a very long, boring trip, my passenger and I were reduced to asking each other dumb questions. We came upon one question that we couldn't settle. Imagine that I'm driving along at highway speed with the air conditioner...

Sep 01, 2002
Does the air inside a tire rotate along with the tire?
