Content tagged science
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Video of Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog robot, moving like something made out of flesh and blood over rubble and snow. The slow-motion recovery from a slip … gulfstream/2413
Essay on the iconoclastic Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and his involvement in the making of an early parallel supercomputer. gulfstream/2442
High-resolution images of that (previously-uncontacted?) Amazonia tribe shot who shot at a plane flying overhead with arrows. gulfstream/2448
Pictures of a probably man-made mud volcano that’s been puming out 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools every day for the last two years. gulfstream/2452
Steven Pinker: Linguistic, historial and sociological aspects of swearing. Many good points in here, e.g. “To hear nigger is to try on, however briefly, … gulfstream/2339
“Scientists dredge up longest-lived creature, a 400-year-old clam.” Another way of looking at this is that scientists have just killed the world’s … gulfstream/2344
Where the winners of major science awards have come from over the last 20 years. (Mostly the US, and mostly US citizens, too.) gulfstream/2383
“Rather startled, I watched this scene from close quarters behind the window until 19.10 hours during which time (75 minutes) I made some photographs … gulfstream/1704
Headline slightly better than the reality, but: “Lab fireball ‘may be black hole’.” gulfstream/1713
Photographing medieval tapestries. gulfstream/1717
Conference accepts computer-generated computer science paper. (Looks like Alan Sokol, at least, was suitably cautious in not attempting to draw … gulfstream/1727
Ah, excellent: people are seriously researching vat-grown meat. Producing meat by running sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, etc. through a cow … gulfstream/1794
Excellent! More progress on lab-grown meat. I don’t understand why (some) vegetarians are objecting though. Maybe if they’re also hard-core … gulfstream/1818
Octopus takes a shark! gulfstream/1823
“Nobody dumbs down the finance pages. Imagine the fuss if I tried to stick the word ‘biophoton’ on a science page without explaining what … gulfstream/1833
Man and his synthetic clothes builds up thousands of volts of static electricity, starts scorching things. gulfstream/1834
Physically possible (i.e. gravitationally possible) arrangements of planets. gulfstream/1838
Flash games produced by the Nobel Prize’s education/outreach division, completely inexplicable in purpose and design. Michele puts it well: … gulfstream/1927
Eurasians are more beautiful, healthy, intelligent, etc.? (Nice theory, not very convincing.) gulfstream/1945
What’s the deal with these pictures and characterisations of scientists, supposed produced by 7th graders before and after visiting Fermilab? They’re … gulfstream/1981
In 1962, a U.S. high-altitute (400km!) nuclear test knocked out one-third of the satellites in low earth orbit, including the first commercial communications … gulfstream/2020
“Experiment: Replace ordinary eggs in cake recipe with Cadbury Creme Eggs and observe results. Hypothesis: THIS IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME.” gulfstream/2056
What’s known about yawning. (Seems like not so very much.) gulfstream/2079
The Nocebo effect: thinking that bad things will happen is a self-fulfilling prophesy. (So should doctors lie to patients about their prospects?) gulfstream/2102
“The researchers said Pluto failed to dominate its orbit around the Sun in the same way as the other planets.” WELL THEN TRY HARDER DAMMIT. gulfstream/2143
Journalists from The New Yorker, thoughtful individuals that they are, attempt to arrange a meeting with the famously reclusive mathematician Grigory Perelman: … gulfstream/2150
Jim Holt’s review of two books critical of string theory. (Good overview of the theory and its weaknesses.) I would’ve thought that two books on string … gulfstream/2163
The Pale Blue Dot: a picture of Earth, taken from a very long way away, inspires some fine words from Carl Sagan about how insignificant we all are, or … gulfstream/2168
“A researcher uses his understanding of the human brain to advance on a popular quiz show.” gulfstream/2193
Kansas Outlaws Practice of Evolution: “Violators of the new law may face punishments that include jail time, stiff fines, and rehabilitative education … gulfstream/2197
The space shuttle landing process involves flying upside down and backwards, as well as right-side up and forwards. (Point form.) gulfstream/2204
A BBC TV show locks nine volunteers into a zoo and feeds them the sort of food our ape-like ancestors once ate, to healthy results. I wonder if a caveman … gulfstream/2211
Sort of meadering piece on nutrition, the food we eat, and the food we should eat. (Long; though there’s nine point-form tips at the end.) “Avoid … gulfstream/2221
Human being can apparently run further and faster than any other animal. “All together, Lieberman said, these adaptations allowed us to relentlessly … gulfstream/2272
Article by Bjorn Lomborg summarising his book, The Skeptical Environmentalist. The book argues that: (1) the threat to the environment isn't as … gulfstream/669
Battling UV in southern Chile: “On a typical day here this month, the solar stoplight was set at orange, the second highest of four levels, and … gulfstream/992
Isn’t science wonderful? Imagine explaining this to someone from another planet: to test a theory about how things move (Einstein’s theory … gulfstream/1405
Audio of Malcolm Gladwell’s Feb 21st talk on a possible prodigies/late bloomers dichotomy. (This reminds me: in A Mathematician’s Apology, G.H. Hardy … gulfstream/2007
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But Mr. Mankoff says it is possible to organize cartoons not just chronologically but taxonomically, in relation to four vectors: caption, image and two … quotes/358
It may also be urged ... that the equalization of risks which science was expected to bring would be in the long run salutary; that a civilian's life … hardy/9
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How does one gallon produce 19 pounds of carbon dioxide? - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine
engines convert petrol/gas into gas at a rate of about 1:3 by mass
Walruses - Animals - Natalie Angier - Science - New York Times
HeLa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
immortal cell line used in medical research
Letter from President Summers on women and science
Telegraph | News | Leading scientific journals 'are censoring debate on global warming'
Contents | Science and Creationism: A View from the NationalAcademy of Sciences, Second Edition
125th Anniversary Issue: Science Online Special Feature
New Scientist SPACE - Features - 13 things that do not make sense
Quantum interrogation | Cosmic Variance
Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
AOL Money & Finance: WSJ.com - The Journal Report: The Case Against Vitamins
The Space Review: "Spirit of the Lone Eagle": an audacious program for a manned Mars landing
Stranger Fruit: Go USA! We're #2 .... kind of ...
Guardian Unlimited | Life | Deep thinkers
Aerospaceweb.org | Ask Us - Missile Control Systems
The Loom : Homo floresiensis: Two Years Out
LRB | Terry Eagleton : Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching
"Such is Dawkins’s unruffled scientific impartiality that in a book of almost four hundred pages, he can scarcely bring himself to concede that a single human benefit has flowed from religious faith ..."
Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist Magazine
Wayne Gretzky-Style 'Field Sense' May Be Teachable
Tennis, pressure and the gender wage-gap | vox (beta) - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from Europe's leading economists
seems somewhat dubious but i might want to find this again
Gregg Easterbrook: Greatest Living American Ignored - Media on The Huffington Post
