Snakes by Harrison
Snakes by Harrison — Harrison's first podcast! He'll have to teach me how to do mine when I get back.
Snakes by Harrison — Harrison's first podcast! He'll have to teach me how to do mine when I get back.
If God says, pi == 3, does that make it so?
I love Japanese television: What happens when a ball is thrown back 100 km/h from a truck moving forward at 100 km/h? My favorite comment: "music needs to be more dramatic!!"
Global warming is three times faster than worst predictions. (I'm sure Rush & Co. are still in denial, though.) Remind me to post a rant about how smart people are thwarting themselves by calling it "global warming" rather than "global climate change".
Astronomers report biggest stellar explosion [NYT login required]
Supercooled water, which baffles even Kris [via Rich]
This is awesome: The ten most magnificent trees in the world
The brain scan that can read people's intentions. Welcome to the future.
This is a stunning panorama comprising three photos stitched together: Comet between fireworks and lightning
Bird songs of the Yucatan Peninsula — an on-line guide to some common tropical bird vocalizations with descriptive analyses
Pressure gradients, storm tracks, and wind velocity — this is the kind of stuff Jeff reads for fun. (Sure is windy out there!)
Vegetables, not fruit, help fight memory problems in old age — bad news for me!
Walk on the water: a pool filled with a non-Newtonian fluid
Cell transplants restore sight [via Dave]
Forget Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. What would dogfights in space actually be like?
What if all humans vanished? [via Dave]
This awesome article, with copious hyperlinks, will make you an instant expert on Human Evolution.
Americans don't believe in evolution (but it makes no difference, really, in my opinion — evolution occurs whether we believe in it or not)
The biology of B-movie monsters is great fun and it's science.
There's hope for me yet! Scientists take step toward obesity vaccine — "A vaccine that slows down a key hunger hormone kept rats from gaining weight, even when they over ate, U.S. researchers reported on Monday." [via Dave]
Keeping the sci-fi health theme going: bionic man can control robotic arm with his mind and silk may be able to help repair damaged nerves. We are living in the future. [via Dave]
Science fiction approaches reality: Suspended animation trials are underway, and they're working
Grow your own teeth [via Dave]
Awesome hurricane animation demonstrating the effects of storms ranging from category one to category five. Excellent. Thanks again, Rich!
Yo, Proffitt-Smiths! Is psychology a science?
This site is awesome: What's that bug? For all of your bug-identification needs.
Roger Ebert's review of An Inconvenient Truth
How to cure your hayfever or asthma by intentionally infecting yourself with hookworm [via Dave]
Science ficton becomes reality: DARPA is researching the regeneration of human limbs. Awesome. [via Dave]
For Kris: Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab 'The Body Farm' Where the Dead Do Tell Tales. That's an awful title, but the book looks intriguing, even to me. (And I'm not even a trained observer!) [via frykitty]
Why do we feel cold when we have a fever? Because our body's "setpoint" has been raised. The colder you feel, the greater the difference between your current temperature and the new set point. Shivering = fever is going to rise; sweating = fever is going to break. That means, for example, that when I'm shivering despite wearing many layers, despite sitting in a 75-degree room with two heaters trained directly on my, well, my temperature is going to rise. Crap. Doctor's appointment at two.
This evolutionary timeline doesn't reveal any new info, and is probably familiar for many, but may be interesting for those with misconceptions...
Sci-fi now: brain cells fused with computer chip. I still haven't given up my dream of immortality. It seems to me that the form this is most likely to take is something along these lines: a fusing of mind and machine, so that my consciousness lives on in a computer state. [via dave]
Awesome solar calculator for determining the location of the sun at any given moment. (Useful for garden planning.)
From RealClimate ("climate science for climate scientists") comes this debunking of Michael Crichton's anti-environmentalism crusade: Michael Crichton's State of Confusion.
A Hoist to the Heavens — "A space elevator could be the biggest thing to happen since the Stone Age, but can we build one?" I love it when science fiction creeps into real life. [via bb]
From boiling to frozen, instantaneously. This is what happens when you toss a pot of (recently) boiling water into -40c air...
Two cool science-ish pages: The Oxford University Natural History Museum Charles Darwin home page and The Salt Institute (yes, it's a site about salt) [via lookit]
The most popular myths in science — I recognized most of these as myths, though some I believed to be true (such as "a penny dropped from the top of a tall building could kill a pedestrian") [via frykitty]
Better living through video games — Canadian researchers are finding evidence that the high-speed, multitasking of the young and wireless can help protect their brains from aging [via Jenn]
Their own version of a Big Bang — why are religionists so scared of evolution? Why do they not even take the time to understand it?
How songs get popular: the science of hit songs. [via /.]
What kid wouldn't love this science experiment? The Mentos fountain (watch the video) [via ml]
An amazing MeFi post on the history of the space shuttle. This is a must-read.
Scientists believe that early humans were hunted by birds. Scary!
Can dogs smell cancer? Study shows dogs ability to distinguish breast and lung cancer in people compared to healthy controls.
Grist: environmental news and humor [via AmyJo]
Perhaps my favorite piece of news all year, for a variety of reason: chimpanzees beat out children in a reasoning test (NYTimes link)
There is news of a 14-day plan to improve memory, which sounds like something I could use. Give me details! Details!
Inuit sue U.S. over climate change!! [via Dave]
News Flash! That "moderate alcohol consumption is good for you" line you've been using to justify your glass of red wine every evening? It may not have any basis in fact.
My Vasectomy, in words and pictures
How big are things? Maybe you need a sense of scale.
