The Creativity Disease.
New York Times profiles a bizarre ailment that has me wondering how one could contract it halfway. It’s a syndrome that causes uncontrolled creativity: In […]
Month: April 2008
Flat-faced Fish Fleet. Er, Family.
Scientific American introduces us to a whole new family of (rather cute) flat-faced fish: First photographed in January off Ambon Island, Indonesia, the critter has […]
As Matthew McConaughey said in Dazed and Confused….
New Scientist says old dudes like Charles Darwin really should be shacked up with younger women like Scarlett Johansen because of science. Humans, they say, […]
Grow Your Own Teeth.
Wired opens wide and spits out a story on a dental breakthrough. If you happen to have lost any of your teeth (ahem), you don’t […]
5th grader corrects Smithsonian Museum.
Yep, he might be an 11-year-old kid, but at least he was paying attention in class: Since it opened in 1981, millions of people have […]
Science Art: Red Giant V838 Monocerotis
Click to embiggen Photo by NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). You can read more about V838 Monocerotis exploding and swallowing nearby planets […]
Big Brains? So What.
Discover reviews a new book that proves Devo was right – big brains aren’t an evolutionary advantage. The book, called Big Brains, looks at the […]
Empathic Healing: Imaginary Massage for Phantom Limbs.
New Scientist reports on the discovery that amputees experiencing phantom limb pain – the unscratchable itch on a missing limb – can give themselves a […]
Algae Biodiesel in Production.
They’re squeezing oil from pond scum for real: The facility, located in Rio Hondo Texas, will produce an estimated 4.4 million gallons of algal oil […]
Doomsday Seed Vault Cooked and Eaten.
So much for planet Earth’s future. The Norwegian scientists behind the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – a facility described as “Noah’s Ark for Earth’s Agriculture” […]