Posts tagged “science”
We Have the Technology
The folks at BIONIC SYSTEMS have an incredible Flash site. I haven’t looked at anything beyond the entrance page and I’m already very impressed. This amazing splash page is worth a visit even if there’s nothing else at the site. Check ’em out.
Space Seeds
A geologist working for the Italian National Research Council and a professor of molecular biology at Naples University identified and brought back to life extraterrestrial microorganisms lodged inside 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites kept at Naples’ mineralogical museum. The bacteria, called “cryms” (for crystal microbes) by the researchers, remained dormant for billions of years and survived extreme
Eat All You Want, Still Shed Pounds!
Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found that if an enzyme called acetyl-CoA carboxylase 2, or ACC2, is blocked in mice, the animals can eat much more food than other mice and still weigh 10 percent to 15 percent less. The researchers said their findings could pave the way for the development of
mirror sculpture Nottingham
A £900,000 mirror sculpture destined for a square in Nottingham, UK, will have to be shielded to prevent it focusing the Sun’s rays and barbecuing passing birds . Anish Kapoor’s highly polished concave steel mirror is six metres in diameter. Direct sunlight hitting the mirror would be focused into a narrow beam of light as
Female Register
Why do so many suspects end up confessing to a crime without ever seeing a lawyer?
Scientific Research
A couple of interesting studies
Computer-mad Generation Has a Memory Crash
“It’s a type of brain dysfunction,” said Toshiyuki Sawaguchi, the university’s professor of neurobiology. “Young people today are becoming stupid.” And … in a completely unrelated story … Doctors amputate first human hand transplant: Hallam said for the first year, the right hand – which had belonged to a French motorcyclist killed in an accident
Football Physics
Here’s a nifty little article on the physics behind football tackles. link via Dan
Soup and Personality
A University of Illinois professor found a correlation between soup and personality … I love Cambpell’s Chunky Beef and Vegetables and New England Clam Chowder. I wonder what that says about me. link lifted from Follow Me Here
sex and cardiovascular disease
Men can halve the risk of a major heart attack or stroke by having sex three or four times a week, a specialist in cardiovascular disease said on Tuesday. as reported at danelope