I Heart My Souless Robot
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Carlos
Sci-Fact, There Is Hope, Cool Technology // Have your say »Courtesy of Wired:
A study by Saint Louis University found that a lovable pooch named Sparky and a robotic dog, AIBO, were about equally effective at relieving the loneliness of nursing home residents and fostering attachments.
I’ve written about humans getting pretty attached to their robots before, so I have to say this doesn’t much surprise me. […]
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 […]
