Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Look! It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's…It's…What Is It Again? We like devices where it's hard to figure out what they actually do, and the Octocube from French designer Vivien Muller is a fine example. Built entirely from 90 degree copper tubing elbows, the Octocube is actually a radiator for a hot water heating system.
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Instructables has just posted its latest installment in its collection of HOWTOs inspired by my new novel Little Brother, a young adult book about hacker kids who use technology to win back their civil liberties from the Department of Homeland Security. This week, it's instructions for building a simple device that will let you spot hidden [...]
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Qubies There are so many amazing milestones that occur during baby's first year, one of which is their graduation to eating solid food. However, fascination soon turns to contempt when you spend hours cooking and pureeing wonderful but weird-colored meals and you can't manage to pour them into the individual sections of the ice-cube tray! Or [...]
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Are LED Lights The Wave Of The Future? Faiz Rahman, a nanoelectronics researcher at the University of Glasgow, predicts that LED light bulbs for the home will start appearing on store shelves in the next 2-3 years to compete with incandescent and fluorescent bulbs. If so, the LED bulbs would provide a much greater efficiency (up to [...]
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 0 minutes ago
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Well, it's like this... "Like many people in Minneapolis' Bryant neighborhood, Patty Crawford was outside minding her business on a sunny Mother's Day afternoon. Then she looked up to see an SUV barrelling through her front yard at freeway speed. ... Through the flying chunks of what had been her lawn, a screaming flock of squad cars soon appeared. ... She quickly called for the kids to take cover....
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 10 minutes ago
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Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 17 minutes ago
OK, let's get serious now. Don't just go crash this poll. Go over there and answer honest, what you really think. No mucking around. OK, here's the question: "Should PZ Myers send his readers to crash online polls?" Right now, the balance of opinion hovers between "Yes" and "Why should I tell somebody who is clearly a shameless traffic harlot?" VOTE HERE Read the comments on this post...
Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 20 minutes ago
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Afarensis (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Know Your Primate grew out of posts I wrote specifically for the Friday Ark back on my old blog. The point was to write short, informative posts about whatever species struck my fancy (and at that point was not limited to primates). Once I moved to ScienceBlogs those kind of posts went by the wayside. Then in July, 2006 I decided to resurrect the idea with a specific focus on primates. In the time...
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
You should check out xkcd every now and then for a laugh. Read the comments on this post...
Living the Scientific Life (Scienti (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
tags: Manhattan , NYC through my eye , photography , NYC Looking east along West 21st in Manhattan on a foggy evening (2 May 2008). Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [ larger view ]. Last week, I went to Seed Media Group's offices in Midtown Manhattan to hang out with two SciBlings, Jake (who lives in NYC) and Razib (who was visiting), as well as to talk with the Seed people and to drink some free beer. They...
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Quite simply, Michael Moschen has revolutionized juggling, refining it into an art and a bit of a science. With a few flying balls and well-chosen props he will completely re-wire your notions of.. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
YoungFemaleScientist (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
I'm naming these after those ill-named things called TLC for Tasty Little Crackers (which are not at all tasty). The title today is: How I Don't Look Like a PhD Scientist ---- I'm still giggling about this first one. See if you think it's funny. Since I was out shopping, at one point I started a conversation with a stranger in a store this weekend. Me: Yeah, we have that [set of culinary tools]. I...
Thus Spake Zuska (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
This is a bit of a late announcement, but I thought some of you might like to play. See full announcement here . For the next issue, Seed editors want to see the typical or not-so-typical places where Scienceblogs readers do science. For the chance to get your scientific work space featured in Seed , please send a photo of it to art AT seedmediagroup DOT com by Tuesday, May 13th at 5:00pm EST. Please...
