May 19, 2013
Swearing
- it's old.
[more inside]
May 18, 2013
Patton Oswalt's Star Wars Filibuster - Animation.
May 17, 2013
Hemp is a Godsend now even for making supercapacitors based on nanotechnology. "Supercapacitors offer a low-cost alternative source of energy to replace rechargeable batteries for various applications, such as power tools, mobile electronics, and electric vehicles." [more inside]
May 16, 2013
Kooteninchela deppi was named in honor of Edward Scissors Hand actor Johnny Depp, since it had scissors hands already in the Cambrian Period 500 million years ago.
May 15, 2013
Macoto Murayama’s Intricate Blueprints of Flowers.
May 13, 2013
Space Oddity, David Bowie, 1969. Space Oddity, Chris Hadfield, 2013.
May 12, 2013
Doctor Who? Doctor Jew. "The iconic sci-fi hero is the greatest Jewish character in the history of television."
May 11, 2013
Project Kronos. "Project Kronos is a documentary film set in the not too distant future, following a mission to achieve interstellar space travel. As the mission unfolds with extraordinary results, the scientists find themselves dealing with a much bigger agenda." [Via]
Write or critique haikus as if tapping on typewriter keys in a monkey sweatshop!
May 10, 2013
It’s Time to Retire “Boob Plate” Armor. Because It Would Kill You. [Via]
May 09, 2013
The hypothalamus knows when it's time to die. So it is said to excrete a hormone for initiating mass cell death during times of excess, holding back on it during hard times. (Sensing somehow that the whole herd may go down, the gland tries then keep the individual soldiering on for the future.) But with people, a variety of psychological factors ameliorate that. Because for some reason, individuals actually live longer in the lands of plenty. So Maybe, deep down, we believe we're already standing on the edge of an abyss? [more inside]
The Madonnas of Science. [Via]
May 08, 2013
May 05, 2013
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong.
May 03, 2013
Cities Of The Future, Built By Drones, Bacteria, And 3-D Printers. [Via]
May 02, 2013
Love, sex, betrayal & dead bugs: Ladislas Starevich’s 1912 animated opus, ‘Cameraman’s Revenge’. [more inside]
April 27, 2013
Capybaras Chill Out in Hot Tubs and Munch on Grass.
April 26, 2013
From the Future with Love. [Via]
April 25, 2013
Microbes: The Trillions of Creatures Governing Your Health. "Scientists are just now beginning to recognize the importance of the vast community of microbes that dwells inside us ." [Via]
April 24, 2013
It Seems That NASA Has Drawn a Giant Penis on the Surface of Mars.
April 22, 2013
I Touch Myself
singer has passed away in NYC.
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April 19, 2013
Smart Highways are being tested in the Netherlands right now. But I caution that a lot of maintenance work will be needed to keep the system working sensor-wise.
April 14, 2013
April 11, 2013
April 05, 2013
How Money Travels (in the United States) [more inside]
March 29, 2013
Amazing Kinetic Sculptures by Bob Potts.
March 28, 2013
Tipping and Tooting - A comic about people who wait tables.
March 24, 2013
One of Us. "These are stimulating times for anyone interested in questions of animal consciousness..." [Via]
March 17, 2013
Evolution and Existentialism, an Intellectual Odd Couple. [Via]
March 11, 2013
Where's that confounded sun? Used to navigate when the lodestone fails, Vikings and Englishmen of olde, could find the position of the sun on cloudy days by rotating a calcite crystal and lining up the two planes of light diffracted from the source even on cloudy days, according to a French team researching a British shipwreck.
