Anything but solitary contemplation, man. NOT THAT!!
It isn’t easy being alone with our thoughts. Nature makes monks seem manlier than ever with research that shows most people prefer physical pain to […]
Month: July 2014
Solar power beats coal, in (Australian) dollars and cents.
The Guardian has more on the power-station throwdown in which solar power is winning the race: Last week, for the first time in memory, the […]
Gödel music composition to debut at Gödel Prize celebration.
Nature has more on the suitably self-recursive premiere of a uniquely mathematical piece of music: The piece, “The Hilbert Heartbreak Hotel” by Danish composer Niels […]
Old phones are listening.
Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on how old smart phones are being used to listen for disrupted sleep patterns, illegal loggers, gunshots, breeding […]
Science Art: Tadarida teniotis Rafinesque.
This is a bat from Tajikstan. According to the 2002 State of the Environment Report, it’s a rare bat. The European free-tailed bat. No, he […]
“Mind-blowing” Viking discovery made in Ireland.
Irish Central has more on the pristine site in a little village in County Louth that used to be a Viking winter base: Geophysical tests […]
“Sorry, but your new home is a cosmic burp.”
Science Daily has us imagining that message being broadcast to an an interstellar ship full of would-be colonists, thanks to new research that’s found some […]
Supercooled livers stay alive longer
Not just fresher, says PopSci, but better for transplants: The procedure was part of an experimental new method for treating donated organs. The method is […]