In a column in yesterday's Los Angeles Times, Ray Lemoine, co-author of Babylon by Bus, recounted his recent brush with the Department of Homeland Security. Lemoine was stopped at JFK airport while returning from Dubai. He'd been red-flagged because of a former job. Lemoine isn't a retired shoe-bomber or an ex-terrorist mastermind– a few years ago, he used sell bootleg t-shirts at sporting events. "Why did you infringe on the Boston Celtics' copyright in Boston in 2003?" the man from Homel
Speed Eating: Would you eat 42 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches in 10 minutes for $1,500? Patrick “P-Rock” Beroletti, a twentysomething-year-old Chicago cook, won the Drum Corps International World Peanut Butter and Jelly Eating Championship this week at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park. (Earlier this year, Beroletti devoured 47 donuts in five minutes.) Tim “Eater X” Janus dunked his treats in a milk-water mixture and nabbed second place with 37.5 sandwiches. Rich “The Locust” LeF
Only Slate.com has the guts to get to the question on everyone's mind now that Michael Jackson has passed to the Great Beyond:Would it be easier to moonwalk on the moon?"The Explainer" Brian Palmer reveals the shocking answer:Absolutely not. While the lunar gravitational environment--which exerts
roughly one-sixth of the earth's pull--may seem favorable to
soft-shoeing, humans are actually extremely clumsy on the moon. The
habitual movements we make while walking on Earth are far too forceful
fo
In light of today's first-ever economic espionage conviction of Dongfan "Greg" Chung, 73, of Orange, it must be asked: How did the former Rockwell International and Boeing engineer get away with being a spy for China for so long? Born in China, Chung was employed by Rockwell in Downey from 1973 until its space unit was acquired by Boeing in 1996. He worked at Boeing's Huntington Beach offices until retiring in 2002. But then he returned as a Boeing contractor the next year and remained until Sep
Buzz Aldrin: EverywhereBuzz Aldrin was recently at the South Coast Plaza Borders signing copies of his book Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon. The former Laguna Beach resident was also hawking his children's book, Look to the Stars. He's done dozens of interviews in recent weeks talking about the alcoholism and depression that followed his famous Apollo 11 moon walk. And he just rapped with Snoop Dogg on a record raising funds for a space charity. And he donated a mock
I had to share this recent story with my fellow science geeks out there. It's all about stuff you never knew to ask about food in NASA's space shuttle.
According to the article, here are some fun tidbits:
- "Salt and pepper are available but only in a liquid form because astronauts can't sprinkle salt and pepper on their food in space - it would simply float away."
- "In 2007, an astronaut was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon and accidentally squi
