If you really love me, you’ll buy me this….
Okay, I was kidding. But it’s still pretty amazing.
Category: Wonders of Science
Peak lithium?
What a bizarre notion. But quite possible, as noted here….
Appropriate technology
Ran into this device and thought I’d share it… you never know when an idea like this will come in handy. The Watercone.
Ball lightning in the lab
pOp has probably already seen this, but in case he hasn’t….
Ball lightning created in the lab in Brazil.
pOp has a wonderful story about watching a very large sphere of ball lightning travel right down the middle of the Argus he was flying in. He managed to control the urge to touch it, and considering it zorched a damned bit hole in the aircraft, that’s prob’ly a good thing.
Also, proof that the FSM is indeed in us all.
Look for the post entitled FSM DNA
old kid, new toy
This is scanged from Astronomy Picture of the Day – it’s a pic of the lines of magnetic force around the earth. When I first saw it, I circulated it around the office as being a pictorial rendition of our pricing model, and got a sour email back from a product manager, now sadly departed, “So simple?”
Hey, can you tell Glenn’s been here?
Hm, what else is on here….
Io in front of Jupiter….
This is just a test
Random pic – I’m trying to figure out how to post pix more easily.
Earwax fluoresces!
Hey pOp. Games for philosophers!
The impact of Joss Whedon on Scientific Research
Cover your eyes, improve your hearing
The face of Dante, reconstructed
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura
ché la via diritta era smarrita.
Last chance for Bodyworld III
They are open 24/7 until the show closes January 14th at 9 pm.
Gunther von Hagens, the guy who invented the plastination process showcased at Bodyworld, is not a usual kind of guy. I didn’t know he was a hemophiliac. I think the fact that he wears a hat all the time is very cool. And he kept his first wife’s last name. If you go to his wikipedia.org entry, you will learn something about the storm of lawsuits that accompanies him and his work, and that is kinda cool too.