Ramblings of a Nerd With Too Much Spare Time

(Note: I wrote this when I had to appear busy, doing some kind of meaningful work. So this is going to even more crappy than usual. In fact, I added what you are reading now later, to try to pad out the post.) Sometimes, I worry about the future of science. I mean, it's just not progressing like it should. I don't mean to be overly dramatic, or anything, but there seems to be more useful work being done in the pseudo-sciences than in actual ones. By pseudo-sciences, I mean astrology, humanities, and general bull shit. To elucidate, recent studies show that: 1. Buttered bread is 32% more likely to fall buttered-side down, when dropped from heights ranging from 0.5 to 1.5 metres.  2. The average British citizen is has a 80% chance to letting biscuits get perfectly saturated in tea, without the biscuit breaking off.  3. Men who consume more than 80 grams of sugar per day are 97 times more likely to sleep on their left sides.  4. Left handed people, on average,...