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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Where the streets are paved with…
Hat tip to the Rachel Maddow blog for this: The real source is a project called Solar Roadways and the idea is simple and sense-making (probably even more sense-making now than it was in 2007). How many square miles of the … Continue reading
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Potential brain-machine interfaces
Research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison points to progress in creating hybrid computer chips combining silicon and neurons. Biomedical engineers demonstrated a novel technique for weaving the tendrils of mouse nerve cells into a network of semiconductor tubes. To lay … Continue reading
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That explains it
From BoingBoing via New Scientist Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream, indeed. A new scientific study suggests that psilocybin — the psychedelic drug found in magic mushrooms — doesn’t “turn on” parts of your brain but rather restricts … Continue reading
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Martin Rees Wins Templeton Prize
And he’s not religious. The head of the Royal Society has been interested in the “big questions.” He describes the Anglican traditions, the “customs of my tribe.” His words in acceptance of the Templeton Prize: Some people might surmise that … Continue reading
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Gluing us all together
A major unsubscribe, Harry Coover, Super Glue Inventor, dies at 94. Via NYT: In 1951, a researcher named Fred Joyner, who was working with Dr. Coover at Eastman Kodak’s laboratory in Tennessee, was testing hundreds of compounds looking for a … Continue reading
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Boris takes a break
Boris Karloff takes a cigarette break on the set of The Bride Of Frankenstein 1935 Robert Godfrey
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