2007 Dec 27, 3:36Mark Liberman suggests the paper on which recent articles like "Humor Develops From Aggression Caused By Male Hormones, Professor Says" was a joke. The paper is based on determitologist's notes on
reactions to his unicycle riding.
article blog language language-log mark-liberman sam-shuster science unicycle humor bad-science 2007 Dec 13, 1:02Video of a cup of boiling water being thrown into the air outside with sub-freezing temp. Found on The Old New Thing
youtube science water ice video 2007 Dec 12, 9:21Article on amateur atomic clock enthusiasts
clock time wired geek technology science atomic-clock article via:boingboing 2007 Nov 6, 8:06TED talk on ten ways the world could end that no one thinks about.
astronomy video ted humor science earth technology stephen-petranek 2007 Oct 29, 1:48FTA: "Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor who writes the Bad Science column in the Guardian, examining the claims of scaremongering journalists, quack remedy peddlers, pseudoscientific cosmetics
adverts, and evil multinational pharmaceutical corporations. Th
monthly blog science politics religion media news healthy research humor 2007 Oct 21, 5:52From USGS is Earthquake info in RSS form.
data gis earthquake rss science usgs government 2007 Aug 15, 2:33Accelerando had interesting stuff on this. I'm also reminded of the argument against time travel: If time is infinite and time travel is possible then we should be overrun with time travelers.
philosophy science simulate scifi article 2007 Jul 4, 11:21Photos of a giant high voltage installation
photos steampunk architecture electricity history science technology weird 2007 Jul 4, 12:15An article from National Geographic on swarms
swarm visualization behavior science via:infosthetics 2007 Jun 18, 10:49"Nature Precedings is trying to overcome those limitations by giving researchers a place to post documents such as preprints and presentations in a way that makes them globally visible and citable."
science research journal nature database collaboration archive community 2007 Jun 17, 10:46List of interesting scifi writers of the current century. I really enjoyed Accelerando
blog fiction scifi literature book shopping 2007 Jun 17, 10:40FTA: "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these
intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could de
ai article human intelligence internet philosophy evolution essay scifi technology science future singularity 2007 May 17, 4:33FTA: 'The key to the biggest number contest is not swift penmanship, but rather a potent paradigm for concisely capturing the gargantuan.'
article education math science humor csc 2007 May 17, 11:48Two AIM bots face off and generate some humorous conversations.
ai humor article im robot science 2007 May 13, 5:21Video interviews with various interesting people on the Internet and other future thoughts.
video interview science 2007 Apr 23, 1:07An Australian biologist lives in a "bio-regenerative microcosm" an enclosed box underwater for weeks. In that time he writes a song...
science article weird biodome biosub 2007 Apr 19, 3:41"WordNet is a large lexical database of English... Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept...The resulting
network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be nav
algorithm collections etymology dictionary visualization xml language ontology tool free 2007 Apr 15, 4:06For the past several months I've seen various articles suggesting why bees are disappearing. At first I thought this was another crackpot's article that somehow made it onto digg.com. But they keep
coming and sometimes from credible sources. After the article I saw tonight I thought I should go back and put together the various articles I've read on this topic. Bees may be disappearing due to
pesticides,
new organic pathogens,
genetically modified crops,
mobile
phones, or
climate change. Apparently,
the US hasn't been keeping accurate counts of its
bees so we don't know the extent of the situation. There's an
interview with Maryann Frazier, M.S., of the Dept.
of Etymology at Penn State and a
congressional hearing on the matter.
I know this is all very serious and could signal the end of our ecosystem as we know it, but I can't help throwing in the following links as well. The bees could be
hiding in this Florida couple's kitchen. Or perhaps they're laying low while being
trained by the government to fight terrorism. Or
they're hiding in extra dimensions that we mere humans can't perceive (I'm fairly certain that's what this
article is suggesting. Really. Read it. Seriously. Its awesome.)
roundup personal bees nontechnical 2007 Apr 8, 11:26A collaborative interactive map of the sky (as seen from Earth).
astronomy map earth science visualization collaboration
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