a building with a pulse
¶ by Rob FrieselSlick entry over on Sterling’s “Beyond the Beyond” re: speculative biomorphic skyscraper renderings and models etc. My favorite: (No caption there or elsewhere that I could find. Wild stuff though!)
Thoughts on various scientific items stumbled across; a critic’s take on new discoveries; a civilian’s view of what it might mean.
Slick entry over on Sterling’s “Beyond the Beyond” re: speculative biomorphic skyscraper renderings and models etc. My favorite: (No caption there or elsewhere that I could find. Wild stuff though!)
The Earth was built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you’ve had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy. currently […]
Popular Science posts their 2nd annual Worst Jobs in Science list. ormally, researchers would use a centrifuge to extract fluids to be tested. But this is the one way in which the tampon is not an optimal specimen-collecting tool, because its true purpose is to hold liquid in. “Optimal recovery,” Garland says, “requires manual squeezing.” […]
This one was keeping me up the other night… What *is* the highest priority item on the human moral/ethical agenda? And how should this highest of priorities be executed? Is the agenda the protection of human life? Or the protection of civilization? To assist each other? Or sustain? Produce? Or reproduce? This assumes in the […]
I’m afraid you’ve reached your limit, sir. Scientists Peg Data’s Speed Limit. (via wired)
I don’t mean to be a bitch but… (via BoingBoing) This article’s conclusions hardly constitute a scientific breakthrough: One trait believed to differentiate humans from other primates is the ability to appreciate aesthetics. Scientists have suspected that such judgement stems from an area of the brain called the prefrontal cortex To test this theory […scientists…] […]
Sitting here waiting for the support on-call cell to ring and getting nothing. Can’t complain about that — though it does bring me back around to thinking about how the service is sketchy out here at best. So where have we been poking our noses lately? The miracles of SCIENCE! Rabbit penis grown in a […]
Stephen Wolfram makes A New Kind of Science available online. Get your knowledge on.
I hearby announce my candidacy to be first governor of Mars. (no, the double entendre is not lost on me.)
Part of me really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really wantsthis thing. The other parts of me know that this is some seriously sick shit. But ooooooooh the Pavlovian conditioning paradigms you could enforce… Not recommended for small children, cowards, the extremely unlucky, Russians or persons […]