1 day ago

io9 Tailor-made microbes could save thousands of lives a year in poor nations, but not in the way you would think. A new breed of bioengineered bacteria can spot buried explosives. A group of students at the University of Edinburgh have engineered a bacteria that glows bright green when it comes in contact with the chemicals th (Read More)

1 day ago

io9 The future of the hotel industry: pandering to a mixture of furry fetishes and minimalism. Check out the Hamster Villa, where you can dress like a hamster and sleep on hay. In this French hamster villa guests put on furry hamster hats, run on their own exercise wheels, nibble on hamster food, and sleep on stacks of hay. Thi (Read More)

1 day ago

Scientific American - Environment A silent, blobbing menace swarming the seas , thanks to overfishing, climate change and even "dead zones." Jellyfish seem set to regain their dominance of the oceans in future.   After all, the six foot jellyfish known as Nomura have begun swarming year after year off the coast of Japan, 500 million or more of them (Read More)

3 days ago

Popular Science - The radical radiotelescope is onlineNews from high in the Chilean Andes this morning: the ALMA observatory in Chile, the largest, most ambitious ground-based astronomy tool ever created, made its first measurements today from its overlook 17,400 above sea level. The interferometric measurements of radio signals, or "fringe (Read More)

4 days ago

Crooks and Liars DOWNLOADS: (1) PLAYS: (91) [Video from BlueStemPrairie, at (Read More)

4 days ago

Submitted by Eemorningwood from Google Reader: AP - A British scientist says she is Belle de Jour, the anonymous blogger whose accounts of life as a call girl were turned into books and a TV series. (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Submitted by Eemorningwood from Google Reader: (Pet Store | Keene, NH, USA)Customer: “Your bird bit my kid.”Me: “Well, the birds can’t reach their beaks through the cages. Did your son have his finger in the cage?”Customer: “Yeah. Well, there’s nothing telling you not to.”Me: “Sometimes they get scared when you poke your fingers into their cages, and the only way they k (Read More)

Nov 09, 2009

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Nov 10, 2009

Submitted by Eemorningwood from Google Reader: “Hiding in my bedroom blaring a Richard Feynman lecture”, Sheldon tells us is where he could be found when he was hiding from difficult situations as a child.   He may have done this often, since there are over 100  hours of recordings of Feynman’s famous lectures delivered to Caltech freshmen in 1961-3.    The lectures [.. (Read More)

7 days ago

The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond The bubble forming in the center of NGC 3079 by particles streaming at high speeds (see image below), which were in turn caused by a large burst of star formation, is believed to be about 3000 light-years wide and to rise more than 3500 light-years above the disc of the galaxy. This current bubble is thought to have been (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

Care2 News Network With no land to rest on and the seabed miles below, migrating elephant seals use slowly drifting dives to catch a few Zs in the ocean depths, a new study says. . (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond The Great Barrier Reef will be so degraded by warming waters that it will be unrecognizable within 20 years, according Charlie Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, at a conference in London: “There is no way out, no loopholes. The Great Barrier Reef will be over within 20 years or so. (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond "Blobs" might sound as scientific as an astrologer at a NASCAR rally, but it's a real astrophysical term - in fact, it's a giant one.  Blobs are immense clouds of gas -some stretch for tens of thousands of  light years- which failed to form into galaxies and instead glow in the far reaches of space where stars used to be ma (Read More)

Nov 09, 2009

Wired Science Using tissue grown in a laboratory, researchers have engineered fully functional replacement penises. The organs were made for rabbits, but the technique may someday be useful for people.“This technology has considerable potential for patients requiring penile construction,” wrote researchers in a study published Monday in (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Submitted by Eemorningwood from Google Reader: The Visitors arrive and say they come in peace, though some are skeptical of their intentions.Add this to your queueAdded: Thu Nov 05 07:13:09 UTC 2009Air date: Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 UTC 2009Duration: 47:25Rating: 4.1 / 5.0. (Read More)

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