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Wisdom of Crowds… By Yourself
Quick “interesting news” post, scientists have found that the “wisdom of crowds” effect that is so commonly referenced with Web 2.0/social networking sites actually exists within each of us (assuming you are atleast of average intelligence). More specifically, if you take a crowd of people and ask them a question, the average of the answers is [...]
Continue reading...Aspartame Rat Experiment Prooves Dangers
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Grant Gochnauer, more or less the obsessive pinnacle of health, sent over a link to a site that represents Victoria Inness-Brown personal experiment with 108 rats over a 2 year and 8 month period, studying the effects of aspartame in them. The photo above was one of the rats in the study that had a [...]
Continue reading...Google to Host Public Scientific Data for Free
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Google, using it’s insane computing infrastructure, has offered to begin hosting terabytes upon terabytes (likely petabytes when done?) of public scientific data so the community has easier/central access to the information. The project is named Palimpsest. Google also purchased the visualization group behind the Gapminder software (see Ted Talk video, very interesting) that was designed to [...]
Continue reading...Christian Science Text Book (Comic)
Sunday, January 6, 2008
I found this pretty amusing. It’s a comic purporting to be excerpts from a new Christian science text book. The day this happens for real, I’m moving to another country that values science, education, facts… general knowledge… the ability to reason and just an overall respect for basic thought processes
Continue reading...Election 2008 Candidate Positions on Science & Technology
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Popular Mechanics put together a pretty bad-ass chart of the 2008 presidential candidate’s stances on Science and Technology. You can keep it handy as a reference when voting time comes around along with the 2008 Presidential Quick Reference Guide.
Continue reading...Black Hole Machine Will Likely Not Destroy Earth
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
This story was sent in by a long-time reader about how the Large Hadron Collider (17-mile long, underground circle used to collide particles… and end worlds) will: Create miniature black holes Have a “totally minuscule” chance of annihilating the planet So yea… we totally dodged that bullet. Let’s all shake hands on that one and just go ahead [...]
Continue reading...Garrett Lisi Proposes Grand Unified Theory
Monday, November 19, 2007
I got this email in my inbox late last week, but hadn’t taken the time to read it just yet because it seemed… heavy… like it required brain-thinking, and I wasn’t ready to provide any brain cycles to process it. So here’s the deal… Garrett Lisi is the guy in the picture above. He’s a surfer [...]
Continue reading...Scientists Create Super Mice
Friday, November 2, 2007
Scientists working in a US lab have created a breed of super mouse that can “can run five to six kilometres at a speed of 20 meters per minute on a treadmill, for up to six hours before stopping” reports the BBC. The mice are also showing 10x the number of mitochondria in their muscle [...]
Continue reading...Relativity Propulsion Engine from Microwaves
Saturday, September 23, 2006
This is just too cool for anybody that ever wanted a flying car or to go into space. Roger Shawyer has developed an engine with no moving parts that propels itself using microwaves “by exploiting the strange properties of relativity”… whatever that means. The British government is funding Shawyer’s work with interested parties from the US, [...]
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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