Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
NASA Finds New Arsenic-Fed Life Form
December 2nd, 2010300 sextillion stars in the universe and people are surprised by this development? Via: PC World: NASA’s announcement Thursday afternoon has shown that alien life might have been under scientists’ noses all along. A press conference with a team of researchers revealed that alien life forms could exist in drastically different forms than previously thought. […]
‘Berlin’ Is Revealed as Kryptos Clue
November 23rd, 2010Via: Wired: “Berlin” is the highly anticipated clue from artist Jim Sanborn that’s meant to help crypto sleuths unlock the cipher to his enigmatic Kryptos sculpture. The clue was revealed Saturday in a New York Times article. Sanborn gave the newspaper six letters from the remaining 97 letters that have yet to be solved in […]
U.S. Scientists Significantly More Likely to Publish Fake Research
November 19th, 2010Via: PhysOrg: US scientists are significantly more likely to publish fake research than scientists from elsewhere, finds a trawl of officially withdrawn (retracted) studies, published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Fraudsters are also more likely to be “repeat offenders,” the study shows. The study author searched the PubMed database for every scientific research […]
Cornell Precognition Experiment
November 7th, 2010From the Cryptogon Backchannel. Via: H+ Magazine: According to today’s conventional scientific wisdom, time flows strictly forward — from the past to the future through the present. We can remember the past, and we can predict the future based on the past (albeit imperfectly) — but we can’t perceive the future. But if the recent […]
Robotic Privacy Curtain
October 20th, 2010*har*
“Brooklyn Space Program” Sends Video Camera to Upper Stratosphere with Weather Balloon, Recoverd “Craft” with Help from GPS
October 18th, 2010I don’t have a “dad blog,” so this kind of post is bound to happen occasionally. Many stories that I’ve read about this incorrectly state that the iPhone was shooting the video. If you read through the comments on Vimeo, Luke Geissbühler let’s everyone know that the camera is the incredible GoPro HD HERO. Via: […]
Satire: New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears
October 4th, 2010Via: The Onion: New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears Research Credit: JH
Laws of Physics Vary Throughout the Universe, New Study Suggests
September 16th, 2010Via: Science Daily: A team of astrophysicists based in Australia and England has uncovered evidence that the laws of physics are different in different parts of the universe. The team — from the University of New South Wales, Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Cambridge — has submitted a report of the discovery […]
The Stark, Raving Madness of Phil Davison, GOP Candidate for Stark County Treasurer
September 11th, 2010I was thinking that a Monkey Boy routine was going to break out at any moment: Research Credit: JH
Big Picture Gallery: Russia in Color, a Century Ago
August 24th, 2010Via: Big Picture / Boston Globe: With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook a photographic […]
