Everyone that has ever taken a biology class has run across the work of Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk who experimented with pea plants and discovered the principles of genetics. Except of course, he didn’t. Sort of. What he found … Read More
Do you believe in UFOs? Once again the British Ministry of Defence has released some of their UFO files. The fifth online release is the largest to date, containing 24 files and totalling over 6,000 pages of material spanning 1994-2000. … Read More
MIT artist-in-residence Joe Davis used the Arecibo radio telescope (part 2) to send a message to three stars in honor of the 35th anniversary of the famous Drake-Sagan transmission to M13 in 1974. Due to unforseen problems with the Arecibo … Read More
Two physicists from Japan and Denmark have theorized that the problems with the Large Hadron Collider are due to effects of it in the future rippling backwards in time to disrupt it in the present. These aren’t two tinfoil hat … Read More
You might remember my post on Sam the Koala, who died from complications of being infected my chlamydia. Although I wrote that it infects about half the koala population, it’s possibly as high as 90%. Very much like the various … Read More
My own colorblindness has mostly been a source of amusement for others and seldom causes me much more than occasional inconvenience. In fact, most color-blind people don’t usually even know their color-blind until they enter school and get tested. So … Read More
BusinessWeek claims that a re-emphasis on basic research will revitalize US industry. Opening sentence: Name an industry that can produce 1 million new, high-paying jobs over the next three years. You can’t, because there isn’t one. And that’s the problem. … Read More
What if the Apollo program hadn’t been cut back? New Scientist imagines a very different 2009 than we ended up with.
Alex on Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived – The Oatmeal
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