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¶ by Rob FrieselI want to shock my vagus nerve. This is the coolest thing since the home defibrillator. currently playing: Love & Peace Orchestra “Holding On”
Thoughts on various scientific items stumbled across; a critic’s take on new discoveries; a civilian’s view of what it might mean.
I want to shock my vagus nerve. This is the coolest thing since the home defibrillator. currently playing: Love & Peace Orchestra “Holding On”
Check out this Flash bit where a mannequin is sent flying through an infinite sky filled with bubbles to bounce off. Complete with real physics.
currently playing: Underworld “Shudder/King of Snake”
Not that I was prior to now but I really can’t continue to rely on Boing Boing’s science reporting… There seems to frequently be critical details missing -OR- they’ve grossly (even dangerously) over-simplified the case. W/r/t/ “the orgasm article”, it seems they’ve done us all the great favor of verbatim posting Holstege’s description as “women […]
About 6 months ago (you may recall), Google announced their Google Suggest beta project – – the idea being that they’ll “suggest” the top hits for a given string. So, with my interest piqued, I blogged the alphabet according to Google. More of a curiosity than anything else… I guess I’m not surprised that it’s […]
New Scientist article on/interview with Jane Goodall – – the patron saint of modern primate studies. A fascinating woman with a fascinating story.
A Slashdot thread to return to when the post-evolution thread gets under official way. This thread of course assumes evolutions still applies to humans. And/or the usual transhumanist garbage.
Another one for the “post-evolutionary debate”: How tech could replace the US healthcare system…
Filing away this Wired article for when the evolution theory showdown w/ A gets under way.
BoingBoing post on fMRI and “reading minds” with it. Balderdash! Even more so than PET scans, fMRI is fast gaining a reputation among molecular neuroscientists as little more than voodoo. As consumers of science, we must be careful with studies like these. The unfortunate truth about fMRI is that many scientists doing this research are […]