Because I know that what the internet really needs is more people putting sad, hungry monkeys* on their cellphones, here’s my latest attempt to sell out: ringtones sampled from “Beautiful… Read the rest “Beautiful (Have A Unique Ringtone).”
The BBC has us imagining that sound as New Zealand researchers thaw a colossal squid:
… Read the rest “Drip. Drip. Drip.”“They’re incredibly rare – this is probably one of maybe six specimens ever brought
Scientific American closes in on the “Pioneer Anomaly” – the strange fact that the Pioneer deep space probes aren’t traveling at exactly the right speed. Researchers… Read the rest “Pioneer Anomaly: A Long-Distance Bill”
A dicey bit of racial taxonomy from The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry.
I’m not sure how … Read the rest “Science Art: “Asian Types,” The New Students Reference Work (1914)”
New Scientist has a gas with the latest alternative energy source, flammable ice.
… Read the rest “Flammable Ice”…[I]t could be the world’s last great source of carbon-based fuel – assuming we can
SONG: “After the End” (To download: right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “Arctic ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Opens”… Read the rest “SONG: After the End.”
Electronic music pioneer Bebe Barron has passed away.
She’s best known for composing the score to Forbidden Planet with her husband, using living circuits – electronic components… Read the rest “Bebe Barron, R.I.P.”
EurasiaNet reports on archaeologist Klaus Schmidt’s excavation of Gobekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old city that could rewrite human history:
… Read the rest “A City Older than Moses.”“Everybody used to think only
Diagram from Wikimedia Commons.
It’s like op art.
TechRadar.com brightens our day with the story of a Dutch designer who has created illuminated wallpaper.
… Read the rest “A Lighter Shade of Wallpaper.”Delving deeper, Samson revealed that the wallpaper is constructed by “sandwiching”
In 1970, Life wanted us to know that home computers can be useful:
… Read the rest “The Handy Uses of a Home Computer, 1970”Those pioneer families who have one, like the Theodore Rodmans of Ardmore, Pa., have discovered their obedient machine
BBC reports on a Russia’s new generation of space monkeys being trained for Mars:
… Read the rest “In the Spirit of Ham.”“People and monkeys have approximately identical sensitivity to small and large radiation
New York Times gives us a new (well, new-ish) perspective on cellular phones – as a revolutionary technology for eliminating global poverty.. or for making killer profits with “human-centered… Read the rest “Cellphone Planet.”
New Scientist rocks like a crustacean with a new report on crab courtship dances:
… Read the rest “The Boy-Crab Boogie.”In the dense submarine thickets of seagrass that blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) call home, males and
This is how small they’re making machines nowadays:
Dwarfed by a spider mite. Lubricated by gases.
Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories, SUMMiTTM Technologies, www.mems.sandia.gov
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