May 2012
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November 2011
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October 2011
3 posts
Back from the Moon, Apollo Astronauts Had to Go... →
September 2011
4 posts
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How art can be good
I grew up believing that taste is just a matter of personal preference. Each person has things they like, but no one’s preferences are any better than anyone else’s. There is no such thing as good taste. Like a lot of things I grew up believing, this turns out to be false, and I’m going to try to explain why. One problem with saying there’s no such thing as good taste is...
August 2011
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The largest shark teeth found belonged to a...
ohyeahfacts:
May 2011
5 posts
Sperm grown in a test tube →
cookiesandknitting:
Researchers in Japan have made fertile mammalian sperm in a culture dish, a feat long thought to be impossible. The technique, reported today in Nature1, could help to reveal the molecular steps involved in sperm formation and might even lead to treatments for male infertility.
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Timeline
The 4.5 billion year earth with
3.8 billion years of simple cells (prokaryotes),
3 billion years of photosynthesis,
2 billion years of complex cells (eukaryotes),
1 billion years of multicellular life,
600 million years of simple animals,
570 million years of arthropods (ancestors of insects, arachnids and crustaceans),
550 million years of complex animals,
500 million years of fish...
April 2011
6 posts
Why Many Don't Believe Science
toknow:
Mother Jones has a great article by Chris Mooney titled “The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science”.
The article provides a frustrating overview of why so many people who hold strong convictions on a particular subject such as climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers or creationists, cannot, and will not be convinced by scientific evidence.
(Hat tip to John Gruber at Daring Fireball.)
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The First Diagram of the Universe
nedwright:
“…as though in a miraculous hour it has become aware of the law that shapes it and begins to strive toward the fulfillment of its being.”
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962, swiss poet, novelist and painter.)
The very first picture of everything, recorded by the self proclaimed “star-counter,” William Herschel. Euclidian geometry suggests that space is finite, but does space really have...
March 2011
4 posts
Amazing Mechanical Seagull Rivals the Real Thing →
Millions Saved in Japan By Good Engineering and... →
February 2011
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January 2011
3 posts
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horror scopes
“The stars are giant flaming orbs of gas, floating in a vacuum. They dictate nothing. They determine nothing in your life. They do not care about you, or your girlfriend, or your job, or your sister’s wedding, or your car not starting, or whether you’re “the jealous type.” They do not get to decide whether you get along with Libras, or can’t stand Cancers, or...
“1.37 billion people live on less than $1.25 a day, and 2.56 billion live on less...”
– World bank 2005