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If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold?

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. ”

How a PR firm contracted to Monsanto appears to have played a crucial but invisible role in shaping scientific discourse

Play With Spider – 3D Flash

A breakthrough in science may save the bluefin tuna?

Bone marrow 'cures Aids patient'

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

Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre

Charlie Stross – Halting State – Heist novel about an MMORPG

Granite Bay Software Time-Lapse Gallery

“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

Population : One – One Person is One Pixel

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/

The Size Of Our World

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

Acid trip 1

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

Top Ten Videos Of 2005 From National Geographic News

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

Schrödinger’s Cat For A 6th Grader

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

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