I Am Just Copying and Pasting This Story Because It Is So Freakin’ Amazing That Anything I Added To It Would Just Dimish Its Awesomeness
Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Carlos
Sci-Fact, Awesome, There Is Hope // Have your say »Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son’s tooth in his eye
Thu Feb 28, 1:30 AM ET
DUBLIN (AFP) - An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son’s tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday.
Bob McNichol, 57, from County Mayo in the west of […]
Video of a moving electron
Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Carlos
Sci-Fact, Awesome // Have your say »We can now see electrons! Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have combined an oscilloscope with a rapidly firing laser to give us this: the electron in motion.
Electron Movie
Quicktime movie courtesy of MSNBC, who in turn got it from Lund University.
So cool!
Hiccups Come From Your Fish Brain
Posted on February 26th, 2008 by Carlos
Sci-Fact, Yikes! // Have your say »You’ve heard of the Lizard Brain (Medulla) and the Leopard Brain (cerebellum), but have you accessed your fish brain lately? If you’ve hiccuped you have, according to Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago. Courtesy of Wired’s Blog:
Hiccups are triggered by electric signals generated in the brain stem. Amphibian brain stems emit similar signals, which […]
Big Bang Is Not the Beginning of the Universe. In Other News: Duh.
Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Carlos
Sci-Fact, Space // Have your say »Wired’s blog had a write up of Neil Turok, one of the big M-Theory brains at Cambridge, who is proposing the multiverse-rending idea that the Big Bang wasn’t the start of all space and time, and instead is one of many cycles of “Bangs.” He posits that space and time have no beginning.
But haven’t plenty […]
Castro Resigns … First Ever Dictator to Willingly Leave Office?
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Carlos
Culture // Have your say »I’m sure the Blogosphere is about to set itself on fire with discussions of what Castro’s resignation means. Some people will insist that he’s already dead and that this “beyond the grave” voice is an attempt to maintain the peace in a period of transition. I’m sure plenty of Cubans will be dancing in the […]
The State of Pulp is … Pulp
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Carlos
Writing, Books // Have your say »This article, courtesy of Simon Owens, proprietor of Bloggasm, is easily one of the best reviews of the current state of short genre fiction, from the perspective of the magnanimous, masochistic magazines that, despite the fact that they go into the endeavor knowing they probably won’t be probable, sedulously fight for survival. Turn a profit? […]
Zombie Miss McDonald
Posted on February 9th, 2008 by Carlos
Zombie, Yikes! // Have your say »So the good folks at Boing Boing had a link posted today of a mashup of Japanese commercials featuring Ronald McDonald. It was mildly amusing on its own — it went on too long and wasn’t nearly as mind-blowing as, say, the iconic Kikkoman commercial.
But the best thing to come out of it was the […]
