Want an A? Sleep in!
PhysOrg.com reports on research from Emek Yezreel College in Israel that proves that teenagers should sleep late for success:
… Read the rest “Want an A? Sleep in!”…[D]uring the first week, the experimental class
Month: June 2008
Sexy Spending.
LiveScience reveals the shocking truth that men do rash things when they see women in bikinis. Sexy stimuli don’t make men stupid, researchers at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven… Read the rest “Sexy Spending.”
Fuligin is real.
Gene Wolfe wrote a few very good books about a far future world in which the main character wore a ceremonial cloak made of fuligin. This wasn’t a substance, really – it was a color… Read the rest “Fuligin is real.”
Lasers! Lasers!
Lasers!
We can fire them into the clouds and they can summon the lightning! (says infoniac.com).
And we can fire them at each other and destroy buildings, machines and people! (says Boeing).… Read the rest “Lasers! Lasers!”
Science Art: Success!
The Phoenix landed on May 25, 2008, and promptly took a picture of its own leg. It’s a tradition.
Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, University of Arizona
Cheap, inflatable, drives over cliffs.
What is it? Gizmodo answers: The amazing inflatable, cliff-jumping car:
… Read the rest “Cheap, inflatable, drives over cliffs.”It’ll be shipped to you in two boxes and take roughly two hours for two people to build. Completely electric,
NASA: “We suppressed global warming data. Sorry.”
It’s reports like these (a pdf) that challenge one’s sense of hope. On the other hand, at least we can read it now.
Excerpts:
… Read the rest “NASA: “We suppressed global warming data. Sorry.””On September 29, 2006, 14 United States Senators
BLDG BLOG, on monkeys, robots and Mars.
Quite simply, yes. Yes.
SONG: Bathysphere (penitential cover version)
SONG: “Bathysphere” (cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant. Originally by SMOG, although I first heard the cover by Cat … Read the rest “SONG: Bathysphere (penitential cover version)”
Deadlier Rattlers?
LiveScience brings up the unpleasant possibility that rattlesnakes appear to be developing more toxic venom out West:
… Read the rest “Deadlier Rattlers?”“This is a brand new phenomenon,” said Jeffrey Brent, clinical professor
Star Wars Holo-Tech.
The Age reports on the FUTURE finally arriving in the PRESENT in the form of moving 3d holograms!
… Read the rest “Star Wars Holo-Tech.”In what Telstra says is a national first, the telco today beamed a mobile three dimensional
Science Art: Rotating Tesseract.
Stolen shamelessly from Wikipedia’s “Fourth Dimension” article, where it illustrates a four-dimensional object rotating on one axis. The graphic was orginally… Read the rest “Science Art: Rotating Tesseract.”