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My in-laws LOVE coffee. And tea. Whenever we visit, and as the night is winding down, it’s inevitable that the offer for a cup of coffee or tea is moments away. What really surprises me, though, is that they can consume these vessels of caffeine in the late evening and still have no problem getting to sleep a short time later. I’m already quite the night owl as it is, so if I even partake in one cup of coffee late at night, I’ll be wired until the early morn’. So my curiosity was piqued when I saw this article from CBSNews that discusses the science behind why caffeine causes the brain to continue working when it’s normally time for resting. There’s also some helpful tips near the end of the article for how to get better sleep at night. As for my in-laws, I guess I just married into a family of caf-fiends… (har har!)

I’ve made several changes/additions to the site. I’ve finally added a calendar, which is using the LiveCalendar 1.6 plugin for WordPress. It’s schweet. Though I did run into a minor bug where if the URI was “http://www.chrisbunting.com/blog” it didn’t like it, so I had to change my site URI to simply “http://chrisbunting.com/blog”. That’s cooler anyway…

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As long as I can figure out what the heck I’m doing. I hope to revamp the look of the site from the default template to something more representative of me. I’m also hoping to add more sections, and a better home page to the site, to tie everything together. Of course, the blog is somewhat hidden from view, so I’m really just letting myself know that I want to do this…

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Wired is running an article on some of the interesting things that have been spotted using Google’s map service combined with satellite imagery. I did some fiddling and was able to locate Area 51 (or so I think). Check out this Wired article for more interesting pics.

Scientists have announced that they are closer to solving the mystery behind unpopped popcorn kernels! The American Chemical Society’s BioMacromolecules journal will contain the details of a study into maximizing the “pop-ability” of the corn kernel. Read here for more.

I’ve always wondered what the actual terminology was for why I can make myself sneeze whenever I look at a bright light. Normally, this occurs when I’m first walking outside on a sunny day. A quick peak towards the sun, and ACH-CHOOO. It feels pretty good, actually. A simple Google search yields lots of interesting tidbits on this “genetic disorder.”