In a stunning press release today, computer scientists at WoodChips Central announced that the BullChip-A-Tron 9000 has cleared beta testing and is now in production.  The BullChip-A-Tron 9000 is a highly advanced heuristic artificial intelligence computer that can translate inane drivel told to customers and citizens by businesses and politicians throughout the world.  WoodChips computer scientists [...]

Sometimes the improbable, no matter how unlikely it may seem, really does happen. Like a near nuclear reactor meltdown due to a highly improbable 8.9 earthquake in Japan. The number 8.9 just doesn’t sound as big and as bad as it really is when it comes to earthquakes.  This is because scientists use a logarithmic [...]