Blood Falls
Blood Falls From the page: Roughly two million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of...
View ArticleClean Tech Could Disappear
Clean Tech Could Disappear — But It Doesn’t Have to From the page: The end goal is to allow wind and solar to compete with natural gas—or electric cars with gas-powered ones—without the need for any...
View ArticleBP Oil Spill Aftermath
BP Oil Spill Aftermath: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Fish with Oozing Sores From the page: How bad is it? The effect that the oil spill and its reckless cleanup has on sea life is frightening,...
View ArticleWhy do we sleep?
Is the Purpose of Sleep to Let Our Brains “Defragment,” Like a Hard Drive? The images below are examples of synaptic proteins from the brains of Drosophila, the fruit fly: via Discover Magazine “There...
View Article3D paper sculptures
“Using rare and fine paper from around the world, Julie Wilkinson and Joyanne Horscroft of The Makerie create incredibly intricate 3D paper sculptures, the likes we’ve never seen.” -via My Modern Met
View ArticleTwo for Tuesday – The Potto
There are only 14 pottos in captivity worldwide; 8 of them live in the Cincinnati Zoo!
View ArticleNASA Scientists Insert a 500-million-year-old Gene in Modern Bacteria
“Using a process called paleo-experimental evolution, Georgia Tech researchers have resurrected a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria and inserted it into modern-day Escherichia coli (E. coli)...
View ArticleAll we have to do is not lie.
“What if God wasn’t a god at all. What if all they could do for us was give us the chance of life and the rest was down to us? You don’t deny your parents just because they couldn’t give you everything...
View ArticleDamien Hirst – Sympathy in White Major: Absolution
Butterflies and gloss on canvas by Damien Hirst
View ArticleNikki Graziano Found Functions
“Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics… and...
View ArticleStacy’s Picks – Conway’s Game of Life
Conway’s Game of Life “…one of the most fascinating aspects of The Game of Life is how it produces repeating patterns and patterns that move across the plane (referred to as gliders and spaceships)....
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“Tell that joke again, J!” “Yeah, yeah! The one about the friars!” “Alright, alright, so a group of friars lived in a monastery. As with many monasteries, the friars found it necessary to run a small...
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