science

98 posts

  1. The Killers of Eden was a group of orcas off the coast of Australia that…
  2. How the city hurts your brain
  3. E.O. Wilson on "Darwin and the Future of Biology"
  4. New York Times article about boredom
  5. Why we love a good yarn
  6. Going shampoo-free sounds kind of cool
  7. pictures of rare clouds
  8. How We're Wrecking Our Feet
  9. Science confirms the runner's high, which used to be just folk wisdom
  10. A video of the total lunar eclipse we had a while back
  11. If Osama is only 6 degrees away, why can't we find him?
  12. The brown note is (supposedly) the ultra-low
  13. How to create an extreme overhang with toy bricks [$]
  14. A map of where all the blondes are in Europe
  15. The Cassini spacecraft has recently taken some fantastic photographs of Saturn
  16. How clean is the electricity I use?
  17. Haile Gebrselassie set a new marathon record a couple days ago: 2:04:26
  18. Alan Nelson links to a collection of Stephen Hawking's lectures and colloquia
  19. Bonobos are in the news again
  20. recordings from the 2007 Singularity Summit
  21. Galileo's sunspot illustrations
  22. Those mechanical models of the solar system are called orreries
  23. One of my ongoing fascinations is with sense of scale
  24. Time may not exist
  25. There's a Star Trek wiki, almost 26,000 articles
  26. Plates from George Catlin's 1844 North American Indian Portfolio
  27. What If Earth’s Topography Were Reversed?
  28. A long essay exploring Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies
  29. Powers of Ten film
  30. profile of Albert Einstein
  31. The Trouble with Physics (review: dnf)
  32. sense of scale
  33. havent slept in 105 hrs
  34. Whitney Music Box
  35. An archive of celestial atlases
  36. Lots and lots of maps of the brain
  37. The Cassini spacecraft has sent back some new images of Saturn
  38. Chimpanzees are making weapons
  39. It was pretty idyllic all around
  40. An ode to the petri dish
  41. A study of internet weather forecast accuracy
  42. Engineering 503: Scientific Visualization & Information Architecture
  43. points to some pretty amazingly intricate origami creations
  44. Ah, vindication
  45. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (review: 5/5)
  46. multi-dimensional maps of dark matter
  47. A few weeks ago
  48. An interview with anthropologist Barbara King
  49. Michael Pollan has an extensive article on what to eat and why
  50. Letter to a Christian Nation (review: 3.5/5)
  51. mystery of consciousness
  52. A brief history of infinity
  53. collection of sunspot drawings
  54. Exploring the question: Is philosophy progressive?
  55. Finally, we have caffeinated doughnuts
  56. The God Delusion (review: dnf)
  57. Why chicks don't dig the singularity
  58. Byron Janis on His Struggles with Acoustics
  59. links to several places
  60. a composite code for all the factors that make up a society’s well-being
  61. The neuroscience of music
  62. scientific argument for keeping Saddam Hussein alive
  63. The neuroscience of music
  64. An interview with Steven Johnson
  65. a video comparing the planets, the Sun, and a number of other stars
  66. New York Times on the science of free will
  67. massive New Year's resolution-keeping experiment
  68. we selected 56 works to appear in the 2006 Art of Science exhibition
  69. I just learned about Open Culture yesterday
  70. The science of free-throw shooting
  71. A very good, and very critical review of Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion
  72. Take a Nap! Change Your Life (review: 3.5/5)
  73. Visual Complexity created a cool mosaic of the first 360 projects
  74. Swivel is a web service that lets you compare public statistics
  75. What happens when you put an iPod into a blender?
  76. There are super-lions in Botswana
  77. Ah, validation
  78. OMG: chicken fried bacon
  79. Wikipedia has an article about the math and methods for shuffling playing cards
  80. It's quite beautiful for a textbook
  81. Noise (review: 1.5/5)
  82. A guy who thinks a lot about traffic has come up with experiments
  83. The Ghost Map (review: 4/5)
  84. The top articles from the past 50 years of The New Scientist
  85. Discover magazine highlights the 25 Greatest Science Books of All Time
  86. Here are some plates from Alexander Jamieson's 1822 book
  87. International Dark Sky Association can help you find a good spot
  88. Steven Johnson
  89. Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change
  90. Richard Dawkins
  91. The Worldchanging book was released today
  92. An article all about matching the wine glasses with the wine inside
  93. A cool new version of the periodic table
  94. In the latest issue of Wired magazine, a long feature about the’New Atheism'
  95. sweet collection of photos from the Hubble space telescope
  96. Visualizing Meaning
  97. Solar and Heliosheric Observatory
  98. Here are some links & photos to some of the worst-named government documents