If this doesn’t make people worried about climate change, nothing will
Chocolate could be as rare as caviar in twenty years, due in part to climate change.
View ArticlePresumably They Read “Little Brother” And Were Worried That Kids Might...
Republicans introduce bill that would require all ISPs and Wifi providers to keep two-year logs of all use. Comment of the thread: The Republicans said that if the Democrats got elected, the government...
View ArticleI am just about smart enough to kind of understand this
Canadian researchers invent way to create peptides out of water, and rather than patent it decide to go open-source with it. Now, my first reaction is of course to say that “peptides” sound like some...
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Hippo sweat to be turned into sunscreen. Key part is this: After analyzing the hippo sweat under a microscope, the researcher found that there were two types of crystaline structures in it – banded and...
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Astronomers discover evidence that the Milky Way “tastes of raspberries.”
View ArticlePissing on rainbows
A lot of the interblogowoobs have been rhapsodizing of late over the Espresso Book Machine, which can print and bind a book in about five minutes while you wait, and therefore can access a range of...
View ArticleThis is what I was expecting the future to look like when I was six
The SmartFish plane.
View ArticleSarah Palin is still an idiot.
The Quitbull in her brand new Wall Street Journal Washington Post op-ed that she totally wroted herself: There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy...
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I am a natural-born luddite. My mother fondly remembers me tossing my booties at her sewing machine as an infant.1 My irrational hatred and fear of technology is profound, but not without just cause....
View ArticleThe iPad.
Okay, sign me up.12 Look, I hate iTunes more than just about anything, but Apple understands design. People complaining that it is in the “uncanny valley” of gadgets – too big to be as portable as the...
View ArticleChoral
(inspired by this) — I awoke, already knowing I must decelerate the traveler. I thrummed to the core to produce retro and slow myself. As I felt force begin to pull the traveler, I ceased that thrum...
View Article“For all mankind” is not easy
In the wake of Neil Armstrong’s death I’ve been seeing a lot of “we failed Neil” handwringing because no country has yet built a moonbase or sent men to Mars or, well, whatever space-related thingy the...
View ArticleThe California Drought
I was reading this morning about Tom Selleck (for those of you unfamiliar with any reasons why anyone would still care about Tom Selleck some seventeen years after ‘Magnum, P.I.’ went off the air, he’s...
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