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| Wednesday Jun 7, 2006 | How can
this man fly like that without wings or a glider?
The short answer is
"the ground effect", but
the more you look into it, the
more complicated it gets. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 27, 2006 | Thanks to the clever folks at NASA's Goddard Institute, anyone can tell the time on Mars, or Titan. to Science by caspian |
| Friday Nov 25, 2005 | Sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner? Don't blame
the turkey. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Oct 15, 2005 | The University of Florida
Book of Insect Records
is full of
fun facts
about things that want to lay
eggs in your brain.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 29, 2005 | MESSENGER took a lot of high-res photos of the Earth as it flew by on its way to Mercury. Its handlers have turned those pictures into a freakin' sweet movie. to Science by scromp |
| Sunday Aug 28, 2005 | Apparently dry spaghetti do not break in half. While that little bit of knowledge is certainly the basis of an excellent bet , it must take a ball or two make the same argument to the Physical Review Letters crowd. to Science by fool |
| Thursday Aug 25, 2005 | There are many theories of intelligent design. to Science by nucleus |
| Tuesday Aug 16, 2005 | It's not quite
webcams
in space, but Fourmilab
allows you to see
what Earth looks
like from the point of view of many different satellites. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Mar 25, 2005 | Although I am not a vegetarian, I do not eat cephalopods (that is, squids, octopuses, cuttlefish and the like) because there is substantial evidence that they are quite intelligent, and have highly complex languages. Perhaps my efforts to protect intelligent species have allowed them to evolve further than they might have otherwise. Let me be the first to welcome our new bipedal overlords. to Science by pyrrhuloxia |
| Tuesday Mar 1, 2005 | It is possible to smelt some minerals and ores using microwave radiation. Recently, several resources have appeared, for those who wish to practice home metallurgy to Science by isosceles |
| Monday Feb 28, 2005 | Whether you see it as a clever optical illusion, or just a way to freak out your
friends, you definately should make yourself a
paper dragon that watches
you as you move your head.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 15, 2005 | These instructions outline
the procedures of
packing a fresh brain for
shipment to the New York Brain Bank. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Nov 17, 2004 | Giving
wings to pigs
with the miracle of biotechnology! to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Mar 15, 2004 | Entomologists studying the order Lepidoptera must get bored. How else could you explain the naming of insect species after punctuation marks? to Science by caspian |
| Saturday Mar 13, 2004 | The Octopus News keeps us up to date on the world of cephalopods. to Science by fringehead |
| Tuesday Mar 2, 2004 | Perpetual motion
machines don't work, but that doesn't stop
lots of eccentric
inventors from trying.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jan 14, 2004 | Now you will know what to do if
Mothra ever comes back. to Science by scromp |
| Monday Jan 5, 2004 | Space is cool again. You may want to build a scale model of your favorite spacecraft while you have the chance. to Science by braino |
| Tuesday Dec 16, 2003 | The
Health Physics Instrumentation
Museum
houses a large collection of
posters,
medical instruments,
and
other artifacts
related to the scientific and commercial use of radioactivity.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Nov 11, 2003 | If you're among the apparent minority who find TV shows about alien abductions and moon landing hoax theories to be more annoying than intriguing, Cable Science Network may eventually fill the gaps in your Tivo's schedule. to Science by scromp |
| Thursday Sep 18, 2003 | Why don't we try to
destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them?
to Science by gator |
| Sunday Sep 14, 2003 | Oddly beautiful, in an incredibly ugly way. Revered by the people of New Guinea, but responsible for more human deaths than polar bears, it's the flightless, water-loving, second-largest ratite in the world! to Science by yoyology |
| Tuesday Jul 22, 2003 | Crow builds hook tool to retrieve hard-to-get food bucket in a pipe (requires QuickTime). I can't wait for Junkyard Wars: Avian Tournament to Science by dnm |
| Tuesday Jul 15, 2003 | While the Iraqis may have had to seek the aid of
foreign powers to get a hold of some Uranium,
I just buy mine on the web. to Science by borges |
| Tuesday Jun 3, 2003 | Freezing water makes ice. Sometimes snow, sometimes hail, but basically the same old stuff. However, freezing a 14% solution of sawdust and water makes something entirely different. to Science by yoyology |
| Sunday Apr 27, 2003 | How many of you are reading this entry? I don't
mean how many people like you -- I mean
how many of you?
Talk it over with
people like you, and learn
What It All Means from a practical
standpoint. to Science by tinfoil |
| Tuesday Apr 15, 2003 | Some of the biggest and most awe-inspiring crystals in the world are the selenite deposits of the Naica mine of Chihuahua, Mexico. But don't try to take one home if you visit, or you might just end up with a Darwin Award. to Science by singe |
| Monday Mar 24, 2003 | Whether you actually understood
A New Kind Of Science
or were just pretending,
Tim Tyler's
interated algorithmic systems including
cellular automata,
artificial life,
and evolved creatures
provide fascinating applet-based simulations.
to Science by joshua |
| Friday Mar 7, 2003 | Researchers around the world are studying basic elements. Some even try to create new ones.
There is a great deal of prestige associated with the discovery and naming of new elements. Some even go too far in their quest for glory. Now scientists have announced the discovery of the heaviest element known to science. to Science by nucleus |
| Friday Feb 14, 2003 | Bug Bytes not only collects insect sounds, it organizes them into meaningful categories like "Stored product insect movement and feeding sounds" and "Defensive stridulation by soil insects (dung beetles)" to Science by yoyology |
| Monday Feb 10, 2003 | As if in answer to our bad sci-fi
explosive
decompression prayers,
Dean Pentcheff brings us a video of what happens when a
crab
meets a 2700 p.s.i. gradient, more than a mile beneath the ocean. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 30, 2003 | Z O O M to Science by nucleus |
| Wednesday Jan 8, 2003 | The Young Man's
Book of Amusement is just the sort of archaic, dangerous book I used to prowl
libraries for as a kid. It's crammed with highly inadvisable science projects
such as an artificial volcano that's arguably not artificial at all. It is amusingly described by the father
of a young man who received this book as a gift from Michael Faraday.
to Science by obvious |
| Tuesday Jan 7, 2003 | If you don’t understand the fifth and coldest state of matter as well as you would like to, you can now make virtual
Bose-Einstein
Condensates
on the web. This will allow you to avoid the well-documented toil associated with building your own laboratory.
to Science by pyrrhuloxia |
| Thursday Nov 28, 2002 | The current energy hype focuses on hybrid engines and fuel cells, but neglects the efficient and safe external combustion engine. Robert Stirling's hot air engine was invented in 1816, before the science of thermodynamics. A large number of Stirling Engine models and kits are available, some beautiful, some precise, some simple, and some functional. The best, though, is the Stirling engine powered clock. While the technology may be a little difficult to understand, you can still make your own from test tubes or Coke cans and AOL CDs. Of course, they not as fun to say aloud as Wankel Rotary Engine.
to Science by enigma |
| Tuesday Nov 19, 2002 | Alice and Bob
may be computer science's most famous couple (even if they are
fictional).
They sure do get
around, though, and their
musical career
seems to be set to take off!
to Science by caspian |
| Wednesday Nov 13, 2002 | Tensegrity structures,
usually thought of as
toys
or
art objects,
may also be useful for
cheaply
constructing large enclosures.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 9, 2002 | Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science has received a great deal of popular attention, but does it really live up to the hype? Reviews and commentary range from the skeptical to the unimpressed to the humorous to the downright cruel.
to Science by xihr |
| Thursday Aug 1, 2002 | You can
make your
own soap
by reacting fat
and sodium
hydroxide or another strong base. to Science by gator |
| Sunday Jul 14, 2002 | When you are worried that your messages to aliens are going to look like cyphertext that needs to be decrypted, you should study up on Anticryptography. to Science by enigma |
| Monday Jul 8, 2002 | Ted Williams, the cranky but revered Red Sox outfielder died Friday, July 5th. Major league baseball is planning a tribute to the legend at Tuesday's All-Star Game in Milwaukee. His former team is planning a July 22 memorial service in Beantown. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, former teammates and other baseball greats are blasting Williams’ son, John Henry Williams, for his apparent plan to cryogenically freeze his father in the hopes of someday harvesting his DNA for cloning. to Science by rich |
| Wednesday Jun 12, 2002 |
Those annoying little Douglas Adams-inspired
animated gifs
may have something to them after all.
From deep inside the
Carina
(or Keyhole) Nebula,
we bring you:
The Cosmic
Finger of Friendship!
to Science by voidptr |
| Thursday Jun 6, 2002 | If you
eat enough
carrots
you
turn orange.
This is not
a lie.
to Science by belford |
| Thursday May 9, 2002 | HubbleSite has information and some stunning pictures from everyone's favorite (formerly a bit near-sighted) space telescope. The wallpapers alone are worth the visit, and the pages on inner workings of the telescope are particularly interesting. to Science by wwwwolf |
| Thursday May 2, 2002 | By adulthood, Mendeleev's periodic table of the elements
is firmly planted in a typical mind either as a tool for study or proof of mystical forces at work in nature. There are
alternative structures: some clever
and others using alternate media, extensions to the table providing nuclear structure, fermi surfaces, and
line spectra.
Still others are extraordinarily cross-thematic, merging chemistry with comic books, poetry or
haiku. But only the grouping-nature of the columns is retained in rejected elements,
condiments and beer.
Eventually the elements and the periodic qualities have been lost entirely, reducing the periodic table to a design template for topical lists of
funk and rock music,
comedy and TV shows,
famous mathematicians and presidents, even
SGI products. Soon a complete breakdown
of the scientific aspect yields no similarity to the original, becoming a
glorified table, a
marketing tool, or
hype itself.
There is mounting evidence of a conspiracy.
to Science by urog |
| Wednesday Mar 13, 2002 | All you could ever want to know about ants at Antbase -- now there's a formidable database. to Science by onigame |
| Monday Mar 4, 2002 | This may seem rather odd, but according to David John Oates, it's real. He claims that if you reverse someone's speech, you will hear their thoughts spoken backwards.
!nuf evah to Science by 7layerburrito |
| Wednesday Feb 27, 2002 | It seems there exists a niche for one whose life's calling is gleaning data by studying a lot of old crap and taking notes about it. to Science by monde |
| Sunday Jan 6, 2002 | JPL solar system simulator: it's MapQuest for our neck of the galaxy.
to Science by riddle |
| Friday Jan 4, 2002 | If you don't know what an analemma is, check into it with this
cool applet
that saves you a year of time-lapse photography, or at least a lot of convoluted mathematics, per
graph. to Science by obvious |
| Tuesday Dec 18, 2001 | V.S. Ramachandran
is one of the leading researchers of
phantom limb pain.
Scientists used to think the reason people experienced pain in their amputated
limbs was because of nerves that were not fully severed, and would
do
further amputations to treat the problem. (Which didn't help at all).
Through his research, Ramachandran discovered that what was
actually happening was that the brain's
map of the body was
incorrectly remapped.
After publishing his theory, he started getting all kinds of
letters
from people, including some very
weird ones about people who experience orgasms in their feet (which
might explain
where
foot fetishes
come from).
While working with one patient, Ramachandran came up with a very ingenious
solution using a simple configuration of
mirrors to teach the brain the correct mappings.
to Science by laurel |
| Monday Dec 17, 2001 | Prosopagnosia is the medical term for "face blindness" -- a condition which causes an inability to recognize others by their faces. Sufferers can still see faces but don't have any special facility for identification, nor can they remember faces. Some are born with it, some discover it in themselves, and some develop it.
to Science by joshua |
| Tuesday Dec 4, 2001 | Did you know that kimchi was the first light emitting vegetable diode?
to Science by brainwave |
| Sunday Dec 2, 2001 |
Unlike other another work
of the same name, the Bell
Jar is dedicated to amateur construction and use of vacuum equipment.
to Science by gator |
| Friday Nov 9, 2001 | While the phenomenon (and danger) of Global Warming is generally accepted by the scientific community, there is fierce debate on expensive tactics to dampen its impact. The Ultimax Group proposes the radical and tantalizing idea of employing 390,000 square kilometers of space mirrors, placed in non-Keplerian orbits around
the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, to intercept enough (~0.25%) sunlight to offset global warming and concomitant rapid climate change.
to Science by pjammer |
| Thursday Nov 1, 2001 |
Who says physicists don't have a
sense of humor?
(albeit an obscure one) In addition to the well-known
whimsical naming
of "quarks", physicsts seem to go out of their way to make
jokes in the titles of their papers. Late nights in the lab have
spanwed such smirking titles as
Raiders of the Lost AdS,
Brane New World (by Stephen Hawking, no less),
*-Wars Episode I: The Phantom
Anomaly,
*-Trek III: The Search for
Ramond-Ramond Couplings,
How Bob Laughlin Tamed
the Giant Graviton from Taub-NUT space,
Curvature Singularities:
The Good, the Bad and the Naked,
Don't Panic! Closed String
Tachyons in ALE Spacetimes
and
Invasion of the Giant
Gravitons from Anti-de Sitter Space.
The grandaddy of all this goofing around might be the 1931 "spoof paper"
(co-written by Nobel Prize winner Hans Bethe)
"Remarks
on the quantum theory of the absolute zero of temperature", which poked
fun at numerology and fellow physics giant
Arthur Eddington's
well-known
obsession with the number 137.
(I told you the humor was obscure).
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Sep 28, 2001 | Apparently, everyone knows that Nostradamus predicted it, but I found it odd that random number generators may have predicted it, as well.
to Science by brainwave |
| Wednesday Aug 29, 2001 | Think the weather has been a little crazy lately? It has. to Science by borges |
| Saturday Aug 4, 2001 | A chimpanzee in a dress can open a can with a screwdriver... eventually.
to Science by ron2112 |
| Wednesday Aug 1, 2001 | NASA and the
Mars Society
are investigating
what it would be like to
build and
maintain a base in the hostile Mars environment.
Insuring that you have heat and food are well and good, but what about
networking issues
on the red planet?
Thank god the
IETF is on
the job.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jul 29, 2001 |
Amateur rocketry: it's more
than just Estes models and
class-D engines.
The dedicated hobbyists at
aRocket have built a
test facility
and a powerful
liquid oxygen engine
all for about the cost of a used car. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 27, 2001 | Modern science has finally developed a theory to explain Geriatric Migration. to Science by nucleus |
| Monday Jul 16, 2001 | The FBI won't protect us from alien invasions. A good PR job will. to Science by mercaptan |
| Monday Jul 2, 2001 | NASA plans exploration of outer planets and moons with huge balloons. Jules Verne would be proud.
to Science by skallas |
| Sunday Jul 1, 2001 | Now placing bets on the next Fungus of the Month. to Science by keiths |
| Thursday Jun 7, 2001 | Grand Illusions
has some interesting optical illusions and home science experiments
as well as informative essays on art and science.
to Science by borges |
| Wednesday Jun 6, 2001 | You
can
do
many
things
with
magnets. to Science by nucleus |
| Wednesday May 30, 2001 | It is no secret that our culture is accelerating. Not long ago one could get all the required asses kicked the old-fashioned way, but the times they are a changin', and so it was only a matter of time before the first fully automatic ass-kicker would appear. to Science by wheezer |
| Saturday May 19, 2001 | Ever wanted to know when you should move your illegal outdoor activities indoors when The Man's eye in the sky flies by? With J-Track, find out what's passing overhead at this very moment. to Science by saucy |
| Monday May 7, 2001 |
Jearl Walker discusses
physics and psychology of dipping your fingers into molten lead.
to Science by gator |
| Monday Apr 23, 2001 | Globules in space! Globules from Mars! Supernatural globules! Homeopathic globules! Globules in our schools!
Even globules in our milk ! Globules!
to Science by saucy |
| Monday Apr 9, 2001 | Alternative fuels aren't just for hippies and wack jobs any more. You can run your car on old fast food oil or other grease, or just race under the sun... to Science by fringehead |
| Friday Mar 23, 2001 |
Good god! I've heard enough
about the Mir
de-orbit
saga. I'd rather
read about studies of
what
happens when things hit planets.
to Science by gator |
| Thursday Mar 22, 2001 | Lots of scientists acknowledge the threat that global warming poses to life as we know it. But now some researchers are beginning to think about the big chill instead. Seems that 600 million years ago, the Earth got so cold it just froze over. The thing is, without this global deep freeze, you and I might not be here at all. to Science by therubal |
| Saturday Mar 17, 2001 | The perils and pleasures of applying statistics to government, science,
and death.
to Science by gator |
| Wednesday Feb 28, 2001 | Did you feel today's earthquake in Seattle? It was recorded on this seismogram and mapped on this Iris interactive Seismic Monitor. It surprised me to learn that earthquakes have their own sounds, too. to Science by eclipse |
| Thursday Feb 22, 2001 | Learn about sonic booms from PBS and if you're still confused you can see one at NASA. Still confused? Read up on the Prandtl-Glauert Singularity or just put the cool pictures up as desktop wallpaper. to Science by skallas |
| Thursday Feb 15, 2001 | Atom optics uses light to reflect, refract and focus extremely cold matter, rather than the other way around. Very cool stuff -- literally. to Science by sylvar |
| Thursday Feb 8, 2001 | Someday it will be practical to record and
play back
brain functions. Second-hand perceptions, memories, and dreams
will will revolutionize education and
entertainment. Yes, porn too. Ironically,
alt.binaries.experiences.sex will never truly become popular-- only a
handful of hardcore fans will bother spending the bandwidth to
download yet another two-minute
masturbation memory. On the other hand, the RIAA will be more apoplectic than
ever. They will work even harder to quash unlicensed memories
of recorded works and legalize drugs that block consumers' ability
to remember
things for very long. "Free thinkers" will rebel, and the ensuing
battle will ravage legal and ethical systems around the world. The
fallout won't settle until long after someone develops a mass-produceable
memory protection technology, but by then the planet's complex
social ecology will have been irreparably damaged. The end.
to Science by braino |
| Sunday Feb 4, 2001 | Who cares about the Mars "face" anymore now that we've got heart shaped craters and smiley faced craters.
to Science by skallas |
| Thursday Feb 1, 2001 | Russia's Salyut 1 was
the first space station put into orbit, on April 19, 1971, losing a few cosmonauts
before deorbiting into the Pacific Ocean in October. Skylab lasted from
1973 to 1979, raining debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia when
it crashed to Earth. Hanging over our heads these days is Mir, expected to crash on March 6th, 2001 and the
much-touted third brightest object in the night sky (after the Moon and Venus), the $100
billion
International
Space Station. The
ISS has a little-publicized projected lifespan of 15 to 20
years, after which the orbit will decay and it will hopefully not land on
anyone you know. [sigh] The future's not what it used to be.
to Science by cricket |
| Wednesday Jan 31, 2001 | I've been getting a lot more attention from cute chicks ever since I learnd about the electron band structure in Germanium. to Science by peterb |
| Tuesday Jan 23, 2001 | Just how much electricity is California
actually using? to Science by skyhook |
| Saturday Jan 20, 2001 | Light pollution joins its older sibling noise pollution as a subsector of environmentalist concern. But while noise pollution affects everyone who's not deaf, the only people who tend to care about light pollution are astronomers, amateur or otherwise. But if you've never seen the details of the Milky Way in a dark country night sky, then you don't know what you're missing for the lack of very simple engineering and efficiency improvements. Perhaps California can't get enough electricity because they're dumping half their outdoor lighting into outer space. Perhaps in hopes of attracting moth-like aliens? to Science by arkuat |
| Thursday Jan 18, 2001 | In the spirit of the
Viridian Meter,
you can calculate your ecological footprint
using a web-based calculator from
Redefining Progress.
to Science by xrayjones |
| Tuesday Jan 16, 2001 | What is IT? Neither the breakthrough single by Faith No More nor that eclectic band from Gainesville seem to offer an acceptable answer to me. Although IT is code-named Ginger, as in Spice, I think it's safe to assume what IT is not. In light of the recent media frenzy over Ginger, Dean Kamen, President and owner of DEKA Research & Development Corporation, has gone on record to suggest that the media hype surrounding his invention may be unwarranted. But, Kamen offers no suggestions about IT to lead me to any sort of conclusion. I guess I'll just have to wait to buy the book.
to Science by rich |
| Thursday Jan 11, 2001 | Physical resemblences aside, Bruce Sterling isn't apt to be confused with perpetual Hollywood Squares guest Bruce Vilanch anytime soon. While Vilanch may be reknowned in some circles for his comedic stylings on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards show, Sterling is a member of the cyberpunk literary genre who published the seminal guide to hacker culture: "Hacker Crackdown". In 1998, he delivered a now famous speech that launched the Viridian movement -- dedicated to promoting a radical environmentally-conscious theory of industrial design inspired by Viridian's 'Cybergreen' beliefs.
to Science by rich |
| Sunday Dec 24, 2000 | December 25 is the birthday of one of the most important people in history -- Sir Isaac Newton. Happy Newtonmas!
to Science by tregoweth |
| Friday Dec 15, 2000 | Sure, watching a meteor shower (like the current Geminid shower) can be fun, but listening to one? to Science by kapital |
| Tuesday Dec 5, 2000 | Finally, science comes through for us: Monkey Brains. to Science by dha |
| Friday Nov 17, 2000 | When you look at
the sky at
night, thank your
lucky (ahem)
stars
that we live in a
relatively
dust-free part of
the galaxy. This
empty volume around
us, out to about 100
light-years in every direction, is
called
the Local Bubble.
Without this
Bubble, it would
be unlikely
that we could see as many stars as we can. This good fortune is
somewhat mitigated, however, by the fact that our sun is further
encased in a small dust cloud, called the
Local
Fluff.
Astronomers
can be so
cute!
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Oct 29, 2000 | Spring forward, fall back:
Daylight Savings Time
confuses, enrages, and plunges
Trick-or-Treaters
in the dark. It breaks
computers.
It
saves
lives
in the fall, only to
take
them
back
in the spring.
At least it wasn't involved in the correlation between
the
dog star Sirius
and
the
sinking of the Titanic.
Should we abolish
the
conspiracy
today?
to Science by nelson |
| Friday Oct 27, 2000 | Your local forecast: Blazing
plasma fire is raining down upon you at over 620 kilometers per
second. Visit HAARP, the High
frequency Active Auroral Research Program, regularly if you're worried
that Earth's geomagnetic
field might not be able to ward off certain death. Have a nice
day!
to Science by braino |
| Wednesday Oct 25, 2000 | Want to win a million dollars
by proving that minesweeper
can (or can't) be solved in polynomial time? The Clay
Mathematics Institute offers this challenge along with seven others in its hopes
to popularize mathematics.
to Science by laurel |
| Tuesday Oct 24, 2000 | So I was thinking, hey, a
cubic
inch of
gold
would look pretty good on
my shelf. How much would that cost?
Answer:
Gold weighs 19.3 grams/cc.
A
cubic inch is 16.4 cc.
There are
31.1 grams in an ounce
-- those are
troy ounces,
remember.
And, as I write this, the
plain-metal
("spot")
price of gold is
$270.50 per ounce.
(A
bit more
as
coins
or
ingots.)
Multiply it out, and my little paperweight would cost about
$2750.
Which is, weirdly, almost exactly the same price as
another little cubical paperweight...
(with
sexy display).
to Science by belford |
| Friday Oct 13, 2000 | Buckminster Fuller isn't just known for his breakthrough and original ideas in architecture but for huge three-wheeled cars, a new way to shower, the one-piece bathroom, completely to-scale maps, and founding the World Game Institute. More information can be found at the Fuller FAQ. to Science by skallas |
| Thursday Oct 12, 2000 | 20 ways the people at Discover.com think the world could end. My favorite, and the most likely, has to be mass insanity. to Science by skallas |
| Friday Sep 29, 2000 | Volcanos
can be
scary,
but
SUPER-volcanos
are
SUPER-scary.
Erupting with a force thousands of times greater than
an ordinary volcanic eruption, a supervolcano can cover an
entire continent hip-deep in ash.
Indeed, the
Toba supervolcano eruption (in modern Sumatra) 74,000
years ago
nearly drove mankind
to extinction, creating a genetic bottleneck
that is still evident in our mitochondrial DNA.
As a side note, one of the world's most regularly
active supervolcanos,
located in lovely
Yellowstone National Park, is
long overdue for an explosion. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Sep 17, 2000 | I like environmentally friendly power, like nuclear energy to Science by mpc |
| Thursday Sep 14, 2000 | The Physics Chanteuse.
Mmm, edutainment! to Science by tregoweth |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | Space debris that survives reentry is a scary thing. Luckily, no one's been killed, but someone has been hit. to Science by skallas |
| Tuesday Aug 29, 2000 | MathWorld is a fantastic interactive
encyclopedia devoted to a variey of topics such as
Discrete Math,
Calculus,
and Statistics.
The author of the site is Encyclopedist
Eric Weisstein, who has contributed to a variety of other neat
projects.
to Science by laurel |
| Thursday Aug 24, 2000 | Flying Alien Rods are everywhere! But they can't be seen. Except in the occasional frame of high-speed photography. Incredibly intelligent diaphonous beings, Rods have avoided detection for millenia by cleverly disguising themselves as film emulsion scratches and bugs and teeth. to Science by jon |
| Looking for a place to get your voodoo supplies online? Well, search no more because Boneroom is here. If picking and choosing your ingredients is too much for you, you can buy ready-made voodoo kits. Apparrently, voodoo has even helped D'Angelo.
to Science by rampage |
| A sobering image for those of you who fly often. It is, however, comforting to know that planes are designed to survive such an inevitability and that pilots train for them. to Science by gen |
| Tuesday Aug 22, 2000 | The Extropy Institute - Don't die, live forever. to Science by kade |
| Saturday Aug 19, 2000 | Britney Spears guide to Semiconductor Physics. Baby zap me one more time. to Science by dnm |
| Saturday Aug 12, 2000 | Why only pseudoskeptics take CSICOP seriously, as exposed by ex-CSICOP officer Dennis Rawlins when investigating the controversial Mars Effect. to Science by skallas |
| Thursday Aug 10, 2000 | Facial surgery helps transsexuals "pass" from the neck up, with sometimes amazing and, lets face it, sexy results. Here's some of the same procedures with less dramatic results and photos that show the interim healing process. to Science by skallas |
| Monday Aug 7, 2000 | Challenge scientific materialism in your spare time with this remote psychokineses experiment hosted by the Koestler Parapsychology Unit. to Science by skallas |
| Wednesday Aug 2, 2000 | The bacteria
Deinococcus
Radiodurans
lives happily in the cooling water of
nuclear reactors. Take that,
cockroaches. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jul 20, 2000 | Color psychology is a branch of psychology that deals with the emotional properties of various colors. Dr. Max Lüscher designed a surprisingly accurate personality test based on color preference, although there are also more practical uses. to Science by kier |
| Monday Jul 10, 2000 | On my vacation, I visited The Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center. It was neat to see all the different sea turtles and to hear of their successes. to Science by keith |
| Tuesday Jul 4, 2000 | Movies like "Blink" and "At First Sight" gave us a fictional inkling of how surgery might be used to help a blind person see. Optobionics has begun to turn this fictional idea into a reality by being the first to implant artificial retinas (made of silicon chips) into blind
patients. Bring on the Diamond Age. to Science by laurel |
| Friday Jun 30, 2000 | The logical converse of "invisible insects" would, of course, be
bacteria
big enough to see with the naked eye.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 27, 2000 | The annual ACM
SIGGRAPH conference is taking
place next month in lovely
New Orleans. Graphics nerds
such as myself
should take a moment off from their preparations and enjoy some
SIGGRAPH humor.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Brian Walker, AKA Rocket Guy, is using the money he has made inventing toys to fulfill his childhood dream of building a rocket and launchpad in his backyard and launching himself 30 miles into space. The launch is scheduled for April, 2001, but until then he has images and a movie of a computer-simulated launch. to Science by kapital |
| Tuesday Jun 13, 2000 | While you're waiting for your
seti@home
client to find those damn
aliens already, you can pass the time by trying to decipher a
synthetic alien
message created by the good folks at the (somewhat optimistically
named)
Lunar Institute of
Technology.
to Science by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 5, 2000 | Do you consistently experience letters as certain colors, or certian textures or tastes? You may have synesthesia, which basically means the blending of two or more senses. People with synesthesia generally have it from childhood on, tend to be highly intelligent and artistic, and most of them experience synesthesia as pefectly normal.
to Science by idat |
| Tuesday May 30, 2000 | So, hey - scientists are clever. We knew that. But
FTL light? These guys have apparently figured out a way to get a beam of light to exit a container before it enters.
Not exactly Warp Drive, but it's a start.
to Science by caviar |
| Friday May 26, 2000 | Mosquito Bay in Vieques, Puerto Rico is known as the World's Brightest Bioluminescent Bay. The eerie light is due to the presence of Pyrodinium bahamense, a type of plankton known as a dinoflagellate. Once you check out these nifty long-exposure photos, you might be tempted to grow them at home. to Science by obvious |
| Wednesday May 24, 2000 | "The Metamath Proof Explorer has 60 MBytes of interconnected web pages containing over 3000 completely worked out proofs in logic and set theory." Then again, how often does one need the axiom of choice?
to Science by joshua |
| Wednesday May 17, 2000 | Jessica Bayliss is doing
some fascinating
research with brain-computer interfaces that can help paralyzed people use household
applicances with a mere
thought. to Science by laurel |
| Monday May 15, 2000 | Lab Safety sells everything a careful mad scientist needs, including Hazardous Material suits and scary Biohazard signs. to Science by joshua |
| Friday May 12, 2000 | What kind of Intergalactic Explorer are you? to Science by jason |
| Thursday May 11, 2000 | Ever wonder what manatee tastes like? I have. Manatee tastes like pork, beef, fish, and tortoise; and its best served DEEP FRIED.
to Science by rampage |
| Saturday May 6, 2000 | NASA discovers metallic dog bone-shaped asteroid; could MST3K be real?
to Science by riffraff |
| Sunday Apr 30, 2000 | I'm was unsurprised to run across a Molecule of the Month page (and I enjoyed finding the page of molecules with silly or unusual names). But I was a little surprised to learn that there are a total of five Molecule
of
the
Month pages.
to Science by keith |
| Friday Apr 28, 2000 | What better way to round out your day than with a few |
