Researchers at MIT have developed a method for magnifying motion. It's incredibly cool in my opinion and has so many potential applications, especially in the medical imaging field.
You can watch an explanation and demonstration of it here.
John from By The Bayou Twittered this to my attention.
This is the best piece of art I've seen in a long time. It's a beautiful thing when gay geeks make art.
Question: Is the spelling of "phur" similar to the evolution that resulted in "phat?"
Because there's absolutely nothing going on in my life right now I was going to post an American Idol video showing a recent contestant doing a superb cover of Billie Jean. However, there are things that can top even that fine performance.
I present to you a video from 1971, a musical psychotropic happening representing protein synthesis inside a cell. Skip forward to 3:30 to avoid scientific explanation, or listen and learn.
I did something similar in college actually. In immunology our professor choreographed the class in a dance that represented the V(D)J recombination that occurs in our DNA in B Cells so that we may develop a diverse repetoire of antibodies against bacteria, viruses, cancer cells and other antigens. I never forgot that dance, and I never forgot my V(D)J recombination.
Found through Cynically Optimistic.
This photo makes me giddy as a school boy.
In the Wired article that this photo accompanied one of the cast member let it slip that "Hillary's the final Cylon." Who said there's no truth on TV?
If you're a fan be sure to check out Letterman tonight, the cast will be presenting the "Battlestar Galactica" Top Ten.
Found through Justin
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.-Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke, futurist, author, and inventor, died March 19, 2008. Most know of him from his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was brought to the screen by director Stanely Kubrick.
His biggest impact was his promotion of the once fantastical idea of geostationary satellites for telecommunications, laying the groundwork for modern telecommunication. His proposal was first published in 1945 in Wireless World magazine and was considered nonsense. As of March 11, 2008 there are 359 satellites in what is now known as the Clarke Orbit (list of geostationary satellites). How's that for being vindicated.
My favorite quotes from this video:
I hear all these stories about how the '70s were just a big party but from the shadow people in this commercial it seems all anyone wants to do it watch TV. Hell, they go so far as to complain that their company caused them to miss their favorite show, that they should be at home watching TV instead of at the symphony, and even losing weight isn't enough recompense for missing their favorite TV show. I thought people were nuts about TV now but they were really nuts about it in 1975.
I'm also surprised that they tout the ease of use of this new product. It's got enough dials and buttons that it even scares me, a lover of all things technical.
Found via FreeBradley
I don't remember how I found this but here it is.
What is it? Well, in the U.S. (Dorothée has told me that it's not like this in France) when you learn the passé composé (past tense) you will inevitably learn La Maison D'etre. La Masion D'Etre is a representation to learn all of the verbs that use "etre" as the auxiliary verb in the past tense. The idea is that all of the verbs are verbs that you do in or in relation to a house.
Someone at the University of Texas has put a Texas slant on the trick and created L'Alamo D'Etre. I like the armadillos, especially the one that's resting with a beret. I'm assuming the alien is there because of the Marfa lights.
This morning I was listening to Peaches and was chuckling when "Hankey Code" came on. I find it quite amusing that gold lamé is used to designate a preference for musclemen bottoms and musclemen tops. Regardless of your preference who wants to walk around with a gold lamé hanky? Can you imagine what Tim Gunn would say?!
As usual I Twittered my amusement, because an emotion isn't real unless its on Twitter you know, and Alden replied to my tweet "What's the hanky code for geeks?" After reinvestigating several internet resources I found that there isn't one. I thought perhaps silver lamé, geeks like shiny silvery things, but that's taken for celebrities. Boo!
So, gentle readers, what should the hanky material be for geeks? iPhone on the left for "I am a geek", iPhone on the right for "I want a geek?" Gameboy on the left "geek boy wants a daddy," Gameboy on the right "daddy wants a geek boy?" Perhaps a piece of an old motherboard? Digital display watches might suffice as well. What do you think?
...is what I think about when I read that some people want to start offering creationism as a masters degree in Texas universities.
What does one do with a masters in creationism?
Oh! How foolish of me. I forgot that the media gives air time to idiots, assholes, and zealots in the vain of being "fair and balanced."
