01.05.07
Mojo Jojo
Check out this postwith a picture of a guy in a Magnetoencephalography (MEG) scanners. MEG scanners are used to detect instanteous changes in brain activitiy. Pretty cool thinking cap.
12.18.06
Top 15 Strangest Coincidences
Check out this article on some pretty strange coincidences throughout history. Say what you will, still is an interesting read.
Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910. He himself predicted this in 1909, when he said: “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.”
12.12.06
Richard Dawkins Q&A
Check out this Q&A with Richard Dawkins. He is the author of The God Delusion, as well as many other books. The Q&A is filled with good insight, witty humor, and many commercials for his own website.
Are people who advocate intelligent design stupid, and do you think natural selection will operate to remove them from future generations? ADAM KHAN, The Hague, Netherlands
The majority are ignorant, which is not the same thing as stupid. Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations. Education may, and that is the hope to which we must cling.
11.28.06
You be the decider!
Check out this article on yahoo news about 2006′s word of the year. Topping the list are: filibuster, sectarian, vendetta and decider. For those of you who dont know, ‘the decider’ was a term coined by our decider-in-chielf George W. Bush. You can do a quick search on google or youtube for decider jokes and paradies.
10.08.06
Funny Thai Advertisements
Check out these funny adds on google video:
1. Krung Thai Bank
2. Ford Thailand – King Kong
3. Bangkok Insurance – Robber
4. Bangkok Insurance – Tires
5. Bangkok Insurance – Twister
08.16.06
Crazy Japanese show
Check out this crazy japanese show. Here is the direct link to movies. The also have this video on youtube of a girl shadowing another. And here is another on google video of two guys playing ping pong, matrix-style.
07.07.06
Chinese take-out phone prank
This link is to some guys blog where he has a recording of a three way phone prank for chinese take out. They call one restaurant, place an order, then call a second, and then has the first restaurant repeat the order to the second. Things start of smooth, but then crazy when they talk about delivery…
06.27.06
Weekly Odd Science Wrapup
King tut’s glass beetle came from outer space. The glass beetle is piece of yellow-green glass, carved in the shape of a scarabe beetle found in the tomb of King Tut, who died in 1323BC. Fish with asymmetric brains multitask better. They can hunt for food and avoid predators more efficiently than those with more symmetric brains. This matters because humans (and well as all vertebrates) have some degree of asymmetry in their brain, with males having a higher degree than females. This is of course why many men have a hard time combining connect logic (left) with emotions (right). If thats too much thinking for you, check out this link on the 10 strangest japanese gadgets. My favorites would be the sauce dispensing chopsticks (my guess would be that one does soy and the other does ponzu?), the shower cap (its up there on the WTF?!?), and the MP3 toilet. If your not much of an indoors person, check out how to makeFire from Ice. This is perfect for your next vacation in the Artic.
If you need something closer to home, read about how Immaturity Levels Rising. This is a good read, here is a teaser:
A “child-like flexibility of attitudes, behaviors and knowledge†is probably adaptive to the increased instability of the modern world, Charlton believes. Formal education now extends well past physical maturity, leaving students with minds that are, he said, “unfinished.â€
and heres the ugly:
The faults of youth are retained along with the virtues, he believes. These include short attention span, sensation and novelty-seeking, short cycles of arbitrary fashion and a sense of cultural shallowness.
05.26.06
Pigeon brained
Check outthis article titled “Pigeon-brained birds can think in logarithms”. The article infers that pigeons, unlike humans, do not prioritize small numbers. So, pigeons can think using, logarithms. Can you?
05.15.06
The solar system to scale.
Check out these pictures showing how big the earth is in our solar system: Proportions – How Small We Are. Although its nothing new, I realize that my styrofoam model in elementary school was not to scale.
05.14.06
Baghdad on Google Earth
Check out this guys blog looking at Baghdad on google earth. In the pictures you can see tanks and helicopters.
01.27.06
Sifu ants
There is an interesting article at Scientific American on: Teacher Ants Show Students the Way to Food. The teacher ant leads the way and the student ant taps the leader with a hair periodically.
So why is this considered teaching? 1. Biologists define a teacher as any individual who sacrifices some potential gain in order to educate a naïve counterpart, and 2. The pupil signals the teacher when the “lesson” has been assimilated.
01.23.06
Laughter is good
Ok, so I guess one of the few sources of info I check is Scientific American. Well they just have interesting articles. Here is a short one regarding laughter. To summarize the article: Laughter is not only good for the soul, it is also good for the body. Scientists have found that blook vessels dialate from laughter (which improves blood flow, yada yada)
12.29.05
2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards
Wired has posted their annual Foot-In-Mouth awards. These quotes are all technology related and may not appeal to more normal tastes. Highlights of this year include:
“Lightweight, and crank it on, and you shuffle the shuffle.”
– President Bush
Now for a small chuckle, check out the interview transcript of Bush at the Washington Post
“All research up until now has been conducted in strict observance of the government-set guidelines.”
– Korean stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo-sukThe cloning pioneer initially denies accusations that he broke ethical guidelines in conducting stem-cell research, but eventually admits he lied to protect co-workers. Later, he withdraws a groundbreaking research paper amid accusations of falsified data.
“You’re obviously from France.”
– Intel CEO Paul OtteliniThis zinger deflects criticism when a reporter with an accent asks why Intel is so far behind Advanced Micro Devices on a dual-core server chip. After the laughter subsides, AMD continues to assault Intel’s leadership position.