• If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold?
  Repetitive newspapers comics joke is repetitive…
  (tags: blog funny images humor media politics comics environment science bd cartoon cartoons change dumb globalwarming stupid climate satire algore gore …)

• Terminator v0.1a
  The makers of the eerily lifelike robotic mule have a new creation: a machine that walks around like a real human being. Boston Dynamics is building the “Petman” prototype for the U.S. Army, to test out protective clothing.

  “Petman will balance itself and move freely; walking, crawling and doing a variety of suit-stressing calisthenics during exposure to chemical warfare agents,” the company promises. “Petman will also simulate human physiology within the protective suit by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating when necessary, all to provide realistic test conditions. ”

  (tags: cool technology science walking robots future terminator danger scary petman "Boston Dynamics" video heel toe bigdog littledog stability crazy …)

• How a PR firm contracted to Monsanto appears to have played a crucial but invisible role in shaping scientific discourse
  "Monsanto knows better than any other corporation the costs of visibility. Its clumsy attempts, in 1997, to persuade people that they wanted to eat GM food all but destroyed the market for its crops. Determined never to make that mistake again, it has engaged the services of a firm which knows how to persuade without being seen to persuade. The Bivings Group specialises in internet lobbying."
  (tags: Monsanto Bivings PR science scientific lobby lobbying politics business invisible manipulation …)

• Play With Spider – 3D Flash
  An incredibly natural and interactive spider made in Flash.
  (tags: design fun art cool funny graphics online flash interesting game animation awesome incredible entertainment science animals 3d biology demo interactive physics spider simulation papervision realistic kids spiders …)

• A breakthrough in science may save the bluefin tuna?
  Japan may offer the key to tuna's survival, thanks to a team of researchers who have perfected a method of assisted reproduction in which sperm and ovaries from donor trout are implanted in salmon recipients. When the salmon reach maturity and mate, they produce a large number of hybrids, but also a smaller number of pure trout.
  (tags: tuna fish environment science hybrid salmon trout sperm reproduction sushi sashimi akami toro otoro chutoro …)

• Bone marrow 'cures Aids patient'
  Doctors in Germany say a patient appears to have been cured of Aids by a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic resistance to HIV. About one in 1,000 Europeans and Americans have a resistance to HIV.
  (tags: HIV aids sida cure resistance marrow science medicine genetics …)

• When Good People Do Evil
  Article in the Yale Alumni Magazine by Philip Zimbardo on the 45th anniversary of the Milgram experiment. The Milgram experiment was a series of social psychology experiments which measured the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure and perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
  (tags: psychology Zimbardo Yale Milgram icare toread journal science …)

• Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre
  Neal Stephenson delivered a talk entitled The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture at Gresham College.
  Four professors discuss the origins of science fiction, its overlap with other genres and its developments over more than a century.
  (tags: 300 books cyberpunk fiction literature neal_stephenson nealstephenson sci-fi science sciencefiction scifi sf speculativefiction toread video …)

• Charlie Stross – Halting State – Heist novel about an MMORPG
  Charlie Stross's latest novel Halting State starts out as a hilarious post-cyberpunk police procedural, turns into a gripping post-cyberpunk technothriller, and escalates into a Big Ideas book about the future of economics, virtual worlds, the nation stat
  (tags: Books SF ScienceFiction book fiction haltingstate heist literature science scifi stross toread …)

“Time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique whereby each film frame is captured at a rate much slower than it will be played back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. Time-lapse photography can be considered to be the opposite of high speed photography.

Processes that would normally appear subtle to the human eye, such as motion in the sky, become very pronounced. Time-lapse is the extreme version of the cinematography technique of undercranking, and can be considered a borderline form of stop motion animation.”
Source: Answers.com

http://www.gbtimelapse.com/Gallery.aspx?groupname=All

Every pixel in the illustration represents one person alive on Earth. The first one is you. The rest is everyone else.
http://www.royalsapien.com/pop1/

We are very small, and the universe is very big…
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD — part of a test conducted by the US government during it’s dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950’s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.
http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/html/acidtrip1.html

This year’s most popular videos from National Geographic News, including the classic “Bees Battle ‘Hornets From Hell’”

Japanese giant hornets pack a venomous sting so strong it can dissolve human tissue. Watch an attack by these killer insects on a hive of honeybees and learn the surprising secret of the bees’ defense.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1216_051216_top_video.html

“The following is my response to 6th grade student’s questions about Schrödinger’s cat. A full answer required an explanation of the issues in quantum mechanics which led to Schrödinger’s cat.”
http://www.mtnmath.com/cat.html